Washington, DC [US], June 7 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Friday reiterated his claim of having played a pivotal role in halting a potential war between India and Pakistan, emphasizing that the conflict could have escalated into a nuclear confrontation had the United States not intervened.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, President Trump said, “You know, I did something that people don’t talk about, and I don’t talk about very much, but we solved a big problem, a nuclear problem potentially, with India and with Pakistan. I spoke to Pakistan, I spoke to India — they have really great leaders — but they were going at it, and they could have gone at it nuclear.”
Trump noted that he leveraged trade talks as a strategic tool to de-escalate the situation. “Both nuclear countries, strong nuclear countries — and I talked about trade and said, ‘We’re not doing trade if you guys are going to be throwing bombs at each other.’ They both stopped, and I stopped that war immediately,” he claimed. “It was going much further, and hopefully it would not go to nuclear, but it might have gone to nuclear. In fact, it might have gone to nuclear in the next round.”
He also commended the leadership in both countries for their cooperation. “I’d like to commend the leaders of both countries, Pakistan and India,” Trump added.
Backing Trump’s assertion, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aide, Yury Ushakov, stated that the resolution of the India-Pakistan conflict involved President Trump’s personal intervention. “The Middle East was discussed, as well as the armed conflict between India and Pakistan, which has been halted with the personal involvement of President Trump,” Ushakov said, referring to a telephonic conversation between Trump and Putin.
However, Trump’s repeated claims have remained a point of diplomatic sensitivity between the US and India. In response, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, leading an all-party delegation to the US, clarified India’s stance on Trump’s mediation remarks following a meeting with US Vice President JD Vance.
“The meeting with Vice President Vance was outstanding, very good, very clear. I think we made our position amply clear on this question of mediation, and Vice President Vance fully understood our points,” Tharoor told reporters.
Tensions between India and Pakistan had escalated following India’s Operation Sindoor on May 7, targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) in response to the Pahalgam terror attack. After India retaliated to Pakistan’s aggression with precision strikes, both countries eventually ceased military actions. The de-escalation reportedly followed a call by Pakistan’s Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) to his Indian counterpart. (ANI)
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