US President Donald Trump on Monday reiterated his claim that he personally brokered the May ceasefire between India and Pakistan—a claim India has consistently denied.
“We stopped 7 wars, the real number is 10. We stopped Iran… from using a nuclear weapon. Every bomb hit its spot in Iran…. The big one was India and Pakistan. India-Pakistan was next level, could have been a nuclear war. It took 24 hours to stop it. I used trade,” Trump said.
According to Trump, his intervention prevented tensions from escalating into a potential nuclear conflict. “We stopped a lot of fights, very, very big one was India and Pakistan. We stopped that over trade. We are dealing with India and Pakistan. We said that we are not going to be dealing with you at all if you are gonna fight. They were maybe at a nuclear stage… Stopping that was really important,” he added.
New Delhi, however, has firmly dismissed Trump’s claim, reiterating that the ceasefire agreement was the result of Director General of Military Operations (DGMO)-level talks between India and Pakistan, with no role for external mediation.
Trump first made the claim on May 10 in a post on Truth Social, linking it to his trade leverage strategy. Since then, he has repeated it on multiple occasions, even as India continues to reject any suggestion of third-party involvement in its bilateral issues with Pakistan.
