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Indian Express
a day ago
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- Indian Express
‘I was in the room': Jaishankar rejects Trump's narrative on India-Pakistan ceasefire
'I can tell you that I was in the room when Vice President [JD] Vance spoke to Prime Minister Modi on the night of May 9,' Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said, denying US President Donald Trump's claim that India agreed to a ceasefire with Pakistan under US trade pressure. 'There was no linking of trade and ceasefire,' he added. In a conversation with Newsweek in New York, Jaishankar gave a detailed account of the tense negotiations leading up to the ceasefire after India launched Operation Sindoor in retaliation for the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir. Calling the attack an 'act of economic warfare,' he said it was designed to destroy Kashmir's tourism industry and provoke communal tensions. Jaishankar asserted that despite warnings from Washington about a 'massive assault' by Pakistan, India stood firm and responded militarily, refusing to be swayed by nuclear threats or diplomatic pressure. 'We did not accept certain things, and the Prime Minister was impervious to what the Pakistanis were threatening to do,' he said, adding, 'On the contrary, he indicated that there would be a response from us.' He shared his firsthand account of high-level talks during the crisis, stating that there was no link between trade negotiations and the ceasefire, at least from India's perspective. 'I can tell you that I was in the room when Vice President [JD] Vance spoke to Prime Minister Modi on the night of May 9,' Jaishankar said. 'There was no linking of trade and ceasefire.' The Minister added that Pakistan did launch a significant attack that night, but India responded swiftly. The next morning, Jaishankar spoke with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who conveyed that Pakistan was open to talks. By that afternoon, Pakistan's DGMO, Major General Kashif Abdullah, called his Indian counterpart, Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai, requesting a ceasefire. 'So, I can only tell you from my personal experience what happened,' Jaishankar said during a chat with Newsweek CEO Dev Pragad. Referring to the April 22 Pahalgam attack, in which civilians were asked to reveal their religion before being killed, Jaishankar said it aimed to 'provoke religious violence' and destroy tourism in Kashmir, a key economic pillar. 'We are now moving to a policy of no impunity. We will not accept that the terrorists are proxies and somehow, therefore, the state is not culpable. I mean, we think it's very clear the Pakistani state is up to its eyeballs in this one,' he said. India responded by launching Operation Sindoor, targeting terrorist bases in Pakistan used by the Resistance Front, a group linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba. Despite India's denials, President Trump reiterated in a press conference last week, 'I ended that with a series of phone calls on trade. I said, 'Look, if you're gonna go fighting each other … we're not doing any trade deal.'' He added, 'They responded that 'You have to do a trade deal.'' Jaishankar rejected this narrative. 'Diplomacy and trade are not interlinked,' he said. 'The trade people are doing what the trade people should be doing — negotiate with numbers and lines and products and do their trade-offs. They're very professional and very focused.'
India Gazette
2 days ago
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- India Gazette
"I was in room when Vance spoke to PM Modi on night of May 9": Jaishankar dismisses Trump's India-Pakistan ceasefire claims
Washington, DC [US], July 1 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has refuted US President Donald Trump's claims that he used trade to force India and Pakistan to accept a ceasefire after tensions escalated between the two nations following India's Operation Sindoor. Jaishankar said he was present when Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US Vice President JD Vance held a telephonic conversation on the night of May 9. During the fireside chat with Newsweek, Jaishankar stated that Vance had told PM Modi that Pakistan would launch a massive assault on India if they did not accept certain things. According to him, PM Modi during the call indicated that there would be a response from India. Jaishankar confirmed that Pakistan launched a massive attack on that night, to which India responded quickly. He stated that he received a call from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called him the next day and expressed Pakistan's willingness to hold talks. When asked about whether Trump's claims of using trade as a means of resolving the India-Pakistan conflict have affected trade negotiations, Jaishankar said, ' No, I don't think so. I think the trade people are doing what the trade people should be doing, which is negotiating with numbers and lines and products and making their tradeoffs. I think they're very professional and very focused about it.' 'In terms of what has been our position, yes, we have for many years it's not a position just of this government in Delhi, I mean it's been a national consensus that our dealings with Pakistan are bilateral and in this particular case, I can tell you that when I was in the room when Vice President Vance spoke to Prime Minister Modi on the night of 9th May saying that you know the Pakistanis would launch a very massive assault on India if we did not accept certain things and the prime minister was impervious to what the Pakistanis were threatening to do on the contrary he (PM Modi) indicated that there would be a response from us this was the night before. Something the Pakistanis did was attack us massively that night, we responded very quickly thereafter, and the next morning, Mr Rubio called me up and said the Pakistanis were ready to talk. So, I can only tell you from my personal experience what happened,' he added. Despite India's denials, Trump has repeatedly claimed to have brokered peace between India and Pakistan after India launched Operation Sindoor. On May 10, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri stated that Pakistan's Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) had called the Indian counterpart, and it was agreed between them that both sides would cease all firing and military action on land, in the air, and at sea. The conflict between India and Pakistan saw a significant escalation in military action as Pakistan responded to India's Operation Sindoor by launching drones. India repelled Pakistani aggression and pounded its airbases. Operation Sindoor was launched by the Indian Armed Forces on May 7, targeting nine terror sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir in response to a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam on April 22, in which 26 people were killed. (ANI)
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2 days ago
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‘Was there in the room when…': Jaishankar rejects Trump version of India-Pakistan ceasefire, again
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has again rejected US President Donald Trump's claim that he brokered the ceasefire between India and Pakistan. read more In the wake of continuous false claims by US President Donald Trump about the India-Pakistan conflict, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has sought to set the record straight again and said that India did not agree to a ceasefire at the behest of the United States. In an interview with Newsweek, Jaishankar said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not agree to a ceasefire in a call with US Vice President JD Vance but said that India would mount a befitting response to any Pakistani attack. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD 'I can tell you that I was in the room when Vice President Vance spoke to Prime Minister Modi on the night of May 9, saying that the Pakistanis would launch a very massive assault on India…We did not accept certain things, and the Prime Minister was impervious to what the Pakistanis were threatening to do. On the contrary, he (PM Modi) indicated that there would be a response from us," said Jaishankar. The next morning, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called and said that 'Pakistanis were ready to talk". Later in the day, Pakistani Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) Major General Kashif Abdullah reached out to his Indian counterpart with a request for a ceasefire. 'So, I can only tell you from my personal experience what happened," said Jaishankar.
Time of India
4 days ago
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- Time of India
Policy of forbearance over, terrorists will be hit hard: Def secy on India's new normal
New Delhi: Underlining the country's "new normal" in dealing with terrorism, Defence Secretary R K Singh on Saturday said the "policy of forbearance that was practised for decades" is over and terrorists will be hit hard, at a time and place of India's choosing. During an interaction at an event here, Singh also said Pakistan "treats them (terrorists) as their assets" and mourns for them when they are hit -- a reference to the presence of many Pakistani army personnel at a funeral of some of those killed in strikes on terror infrastructure under Operation Sindoor . "It confirms and validates our assessment all along that these people are deliberately cultivated for cross-border terrorism in India, as an instrument of state policy," Singh said. The defence secretary was asked about the sequence of events during the recent four-day military confrontation between India and Pakistan that was eventually halted after the two sides arrived at an understanding on May 10, leading to a cessation of hostilities. The Pakistani military side came forward on May 9, "asking for a call from the DGMO, which they had earlier refused even to take", Singh said, in response to a query. Live Events "And it was clear at that stage that they were in the process of capitulating essentially. And this was in the morning of May 9. So even before the announcement was made (on May 10), we all knew that this was going to happen. And this is what happened. The DGMO spoke and they essentially asked for a ceasefire," he added. The defence secretary was speaking at a session hosted at the "CNN News 18 Town Hall: The Defence Edition". India launched Operation Sindoor early on May 7 in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam attack and conducted precision strikes on several terror-infrastructure sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The Pakistani military, in retaliation, targeted Indian military installations and civilian areas, with India conducting counter-offensives against it and damaging several key air bases in the neighbouring country, including the Noor Khan and Rahim Yar Khan bases. The precision strikes on nine locations on May 7 "killed, to our assessment, almost 100 terrorists and their followers, whether some of the people had left (the buildings) is a different matter", Singh said. Besides hitting them in terms of casualty, the intent was to demolish their headquarters, send a message to those terror outfits who have a long lineage in terms of terror activities in India, he said. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it has been decided that people will "no longer allow them (terrorists) necessarily to choose the time and place", Singh said. "Yes, they will have their element of surprise always -- in terms of hitting, finding some innocent targets, soft targets. The intent is that thereafter, they should know that we will respond, but they should not know how and the time and place (of the response)," the defence secretary added. "And the nuclear umbrella is not going to deter us," he emphasised. There will be a "policy of zero tolerance", the hits will be on the headquarters and the leaders, not only on the foot soldiers. This is the "new normal" that the prime minister has made very clear and in the future, therefore, "the element of surprise will not only be with them, it will be with us also", Singh said. "We will sort of decide the script of what ensues thereafter once they try to hit some soft targets in India," he warned. "That expectation.... That the policy of forbearance that was practised for decades, the new normal is that the forbearance is over, we will hit them hard, at a time and place of our own choosing. And the level of escalation will be determined by our leadership. And it will definitely not be turning the other cheek," Singh said.
India Today
7 days ago
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- India Today
How India's Op Sindoor and Israel's Op Rising Lion were similar
A tenuous ceasefire holds for now between Israel and Iran after a 12-day war that began with Israeli jets striking Iranian nuclear sites. Israel's Operation Rising Lion came just weeks after India's Operation Sindoor. There are similarities on the ground and the way both countries crossed lines that were never crossed May 7 aerial attack on terror camps in Pakistan came after Pakistani and Pakistan-trained terrorists killed 26 civilians in Pahalgam, south Kashmir. Israel sent jets to target nuclear facilities inside Iran, a country whose leadership has threatened the very existence of the Jewish the India-Pakistan mini-war lasted for three days before the Pakistani DGMO sued for peace, the Israel-Iran war continued for 12 days. The damage to civilian infrastructure in the military conflict in the recent Middle East conflict was massive are sharp contrasts in how both the operations were carried out, and in how the US engaged militarily by sending its B-2 stealth bombers. But the parallels between India's Op Sindoor and Israel's Op Rising Lion are remarkable too.1. INDIA, ISRAEL JETS STRUCK INSIDE ENEMY TERRITORY"India attacked terrorist camps and military infrastructure inside Pakistan using the Indian Air Force (IAF). Israel did the same inside Iran, using the Israeli Air Force (IAF) on a far bigger scale," defence expert Sandeep Unnithan tells India Today India's case, this was the first time that its fighter planes hit targets in the heart of Pakistan -- in Punjab -- since the 1971 Indo-Pak War. Unlike Israeli fighters, Indian jets didn't cross over into the Indian and the Israeli air forces used precision-guided munitions to carry out the attacks."Obviously, the recent 88-hour India-Pakistan conflict was much more limited than the 12-day Israel-Iran conflict, but in terms of messaging there's a strong parallel," reads a post on X by author-columnist Sadanand both cases, says Dhume, "...One side (India, Israel) crossed previously uncrossed red lines, and inflicted much more damage than the other".2. THE IRAN, PAKISTAN N-FACTORThe nuclear factor is also common in both operations."Nuclear-armed Israel attacked Iran to prevent it from getting nuclear weapons. India attacked nuclear-armed Pakistan, and called out Pakistan's nuclear blackmail," explains Operation Sindoor, India called out Pakistan's nuclear bluff and exposed the narrative that it was the nuclear weapons that prevented an all-out war between the two countries. The N-tag couldn't prevent the 25-minute operation when Indian fighter jets struck inside Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied operation, later joined in by the US, was targeted at keeping Iran away from nuclear President Donald Trump claimed that Iran's sites targeted by the US had been "totally destroyed", American media outlets, quoting intel reports, said the setback was targeting the Nur Khan airbase in Chaklala, India signalled it could decapitate Pakistan's nuclear command centre."Pakistan's deepest fear is of its nuclear command authority being decapitated. The missile strike on Nur Khan could have been interpreted... as a warning that India could do just that," The New York Times quoted a former US official familiar with Pakistan's nuclear programme as saying.3. IRAN, PAKISTAN AIR DEFENCES PUT OUT OF ACTIONAfter Pakistan targeted Indian defence and civilian areas, India retaliated and put its air defence and air bases out of China-made air defence systems failed miserably, and India used its indigenous BrahMos missiles to turn Pakistani military runways into Swiss neutralising the air defence system at Lahore, India opened the skies over the Pakistani capital, showing it could strike at didn't just indicate, but put Iranian air defences completely out of action. That was also the reason why the American B-2 bombers could go on a 37-hour mission to strike targets inside Iran.4. PAKISTAN AND IRAN'S PROXIESThere are similarities even in the pain points of India and the time it was created, Pakistan has tried to bleed India through proxy terror groups. Israel, too, has been a victim of Iran's non-state actors."India has accused Pakistan of rearing non-state actors like LeT and Jaish-e-Mohammed. Israel has accused Iran of rearing anti-Israeli proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis," says the Pahalgam terror attack, carried out by The Resistance Front (a front for the LeT) made India carry out Op Sindoor, it was the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack in which over a thousand people were killed in Israel triggered the fresh cycle of violence that culminated in Operation Rising tackling the proxies, both India and Israel went full hammer against the states sponsoring was a doctrinal shift for India, while for Israel, it was a continuation of the 'Begin Doctrine' -- the willingness for anticipatory strikes against Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) capacities in perceived hostile nations.5. THE CEASEFIRE, TRUMP AND WARNING OF MORE ACTIONPresident Trump jumped to declare that his administration had brokered a truce between India and Pakistan, like he did in the case of Iran and has rejected the claims, and said it was a call from the Pakistani DGMO on the afternoon of May 10 that led to the the case of Iran and Israel, Trump's claims of a ceasefire was left in tatters after Iran fired missiles into Tel Aviv after the US President's claims of a truce and Israel said it would in the India-Pakistan mini-war, Pakistan breached the ceasefire in the initial hours, sending in swarms of similarity in both operations continues despite the ceasefire has asserted that Operation Sindoor hasn't ended, but remains suspended."The enemy [Pakistan] should not be under any illusion... Operation Sindoor is not over yet," Prime Minister Narendra Modi, adding that India's response to terror attacks would be decisive and Sindoor is the new normal, as India would be treating any terror attack as an act of war against asked on June 25 if the US would strike again if Iran rebuilt its nuclear enrichment programme, Trump responded by saying, "Sure", reported Reuters."Iran will not enrich -- the last thing they want to do is enrich," he insists on its right to a peaceful civilian nuclear the triggers to how they were carried out to the messaging, there are similarities in both India's Op Sindoor and Israel's Op Rising Lion.- EndsTune InMust Watch
