Trump repeats claim of preventing nuclear war

India has denied that Washington brokered a ceasefire during its conflict with Pakistan in May

US President Donald Trump has reiterated claims that he was instrumental in preventing a nuclear war between India and Pakistan during a military standoff earlier this year.

New Delhi and Islamabad were involved in a military conflict from May 7 to 10, which followed a terrorist attack on April 22 in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir that claimed 26 lives.

Trump had claimed in a Truth Social post before India and Pakistan formally announced a ceasefire that a deal was reached following a “long night of talks” mediated by Washington.

“We stopped a potential nuclear war between Pakistan and India... [The] prime minister of Pakistan said that President Trump saved 10 million lives, maybe more,” the US leader told reporters in the White House on Monday.

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Trump added, “Eight planes were shot down. That war was starting to rage.”

New Delhi has repeatedly rejected the US president’s claims, including that he used trade as tool to leverage a ceasefire agreement. 

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“I want to make two things clear – one, at no stage in any conversation with the United States, was there any linkage with trade and what was going on,” Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar said in July.

Jaishankar also said the confrontation had not escalated to such a level.

“At no point was a nuclear level reached,” he added, while describing Trump’s claims as “astonishing.”

Trump’s claims about a probable nuclear confrontation have been countered by several Indian commentators.
“When it comes to our sub-continent, we have received tiresome lectures about it being the world’s dangerous nuclear flashpoint,” former Indian Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal, who is also a columnist for RT, posted on X last week.