'They shot down five planes': Donald Trump repeats India-Pakistan ceasefire claim for 25th time; Congress calls it 'silver jubilee'
American President Donald Trump on Tuesday night once again claimed credit for helping stop the recent India-Pakistan conflict and said that it was probably going to end up in a "nuclear war".
"We stopped wars between India and Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda," Trump said at a reception in the White House.
"They shot down five planes and it was back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. I called them and said, 'Listen, no more trade. If you do this, you're not going to be good…' They're both powerful nuclear nations and that would have happened, and who knows where that would have ended up.
And I stopped it," the US president added.
— ANI (@ANI)
Moreover, the Congress questioned Prime Minister Modi's silence on Trump's repeated claims, saying that he is finding time only to travel abroad and to destabilise democratic institutions at home. "As the Modi Govt continues in its refusal to give firm dates for a debate on Pahalgam-Sindoor in Parliament and as the Modi Govt persists in its refusal to commit to a reply by the PM in the debate, President Trump reaches the silver jubilee, the quarter century mark on his claims.
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He has trumpeted 25 times in the last 73 days but the Prime Minister of India is totally quiet - finding time only to travel abroad and to destabilise democratic institutions at home," Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said in a post on X.
Earlier, an American diplomat told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that recent "de-escalations" between India and Pakistan were facilitated by the United States — a claim that echoes President Donald Trump's repeated assertions of mediating a ceasefire between the two neighbours, though New Delhi has consistently denied any third-party role.
"Across the globe, the United States continues to work with parties to disputes, wherever possible, to find peaceful solutions," acting US representative smbassador Dorothy Shea said at a UN Security Council open debate on 'Multilateralism and Peaceful Settlement of Disputes'. The meeting was chaired by Pakistan's deputy prime minister and foreign minister Ishaq Dar, as Pakistan holds the rotating presidency of the Council for July.
Shea said, "In the past three months alone, the US leadership has delivered de-escalations between Israel and Iran, between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, and between India and Pakistan."
"The United States, under President Trump's leadership, played an important role in encouraging the parties to reach these resolutions, which we applaud and support," she added.
Meanwhile, India's permanent representative to the UN, ambassador Parvathaneni Harish, said that India stopped the military operation at the request of Pakistan.
"On achieving its primary objectives, a cessation of military activities was directly concluded at the request of Pakistan," he said.
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India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, targeting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and PoK in response to the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22, which killed 26 people. This led to four days of clashes between the two sides, which ended on May 10 after an understanding to stop further military actions.
Since May 10, the Trump administration has repeatedly said that the US president "helped settle" the conflict between India and Pakistan. Trump has also claimed that he told both countries that the US would engage in "a lot of trade" with them if they stopped the conflict. However, New Delhi has consistently rejected these claims, saying that the decision to halt military action was made through bilateral channels, following a call initiated by Pakistan's Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) to his Indian counterpart.
Last week, the US designated The Resistance Front as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. India welcomed the move.
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