Trump ended wars: White House repeats India-Pak ceasefire claim
India and Pakistan were engaged in the worst military conflict in decades after New Delhi's Operation Sindoor precision strikes against Pakistani terror infrastructure on May 7 in retaliation against the Pahalgam terror attack, which claimed 26 civilian lives on April 22.New Delhi blamed the attack on Pakistan, which denied responsibility. Washington strongly condemned the attack but stopped short of directly accusing Islamabad.The two countries reached a ceasefire understanding on May 10, which Trump announced and said that he brokered it with US diplomatic intervention. India, on the other hand, refuted the claim, saying the Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) of Pakistan called on his Indian counterpart and requested a stop to the hostilities.TRUMP CLAIMS 4–5 JETS DOWN IN CONFLICTUS President Donald Trump has also said that around 4–5 jets were shot down during the India-Pakistan hostilities in May. However, Trump, who made the remarks at a dinner with some Republican lawmakers at the White House, did not specify whether the jets belonged to India or Pakistan.Pakistan had claimed that it downed five Indian planes in air-to-air combat after India launched Operation Sindoor. However, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan has dismissed Pakistan's claim even though he admitted that an unspecified number of fighter jets were downed during the hostilities.- EndsWith inputs from ANITune InMust Watch
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