US EditionDonald Trump Steps Back From Taking Credit for India-Pakistan Ceasefire: ‘Two Very Smart Leaders Decided’
- India and Pakistan ended hostilities on May 10 after nearly four days of cross-border drone and missile strikes, reaching a bilateral ceasefire agreement.
- The ceasefire resulted from mutual understanding between the Director Generals of Military Operations, with no third-party mediation as India firmly rejects outside involvement.
- US President Donald Trump initially took credit for facilitating peace but on June 18 reversed his stance, recognizing that it was the top officials from both India and Pakistan who independently agreed to end the hostilities.
- Trump commended India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan’s General Asim Munir as highly intelligent leaders who successfully prevented the conflict from escalating into a nuclear war, and expressed gratitude to Munir for his role in ending the hostilities.
- The ceasefire highlights continued tensions but shows that direct military communication can halt escalations between the nuclear-armed neighbors without outside mediation.
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"Trump Wasn't Directly Involved": Shashi Tharoor To NDTV On Ceasefire Claims
Donald Trump was not involved in ceasefire talks with Pakistan during Operation Sindoor, India's military response to the Pahalgam terror attack, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor told NDTV Thursday.
Did Modi’s fact-check force Trump to make U-turn on India-Pakistan ceasefire credit?
Since May 10 — when India and Pakistan announced a ceasefire in hostilities — Donald Trump has on 14 different occasions claimed that he helped broker peace between the two nuclear-armed nations. However, in a press interaction on Wednesday, the US president changed his tune, crediting the countries’ leaders for showing restraint. The reversal comes a day after PM Narendra Modi fact-checked the American president, saying India ‘has never accepte…
'Two nuclear powers decided': Trump does a U-turn after PM Modi's call, credits India-Pakistan for ceasefire
In a significant departure from his earlier remarks, US President Donald Trump on Wednesday credited the leaders of India and Pakistan for deciding to halt a military conflict that he said had the potential to escalate into a nuclear confrontation. Speaking after hosting Pakistan’s Army Chief General Asim Munir at the White House for a private lunch, Trump refrained, for the first time in weeks, from claiming personal credit for de-escalating te…
Trump shifts tone, credits two leaders of India, Pak for stopping conflict
New York/Washington: US President Donald Trump said the two “very smart” leaders of India and Pakistan “decided” not to continue a war that could have turned nuclear, the first time in weeks he did not credit himself for stopping of hostilities between the two neighbouring nations. Trump made the remarks while speaking to the media in the Oval Office after hosting Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, Asim Munir, for lunch at the White House on Wednes…
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