US President Donald Trump has once again repeated his claims about stopping the India-Pakistan conflict hour after Jaishankar on Monday fact-checked the Republican leader. Trump's latest rhetoric came during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland.
Trump's allegations came hours after External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar clarified that said there was no call between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Trump between April 22 and June 17, adding that there was no linkage of trade with halting of Operation Sindoor at any stage during the talks with the US.
Jaishankar explained that there were two phone calls between Trump and Modi during the period, with the first one being on April 22, when the US President condemned the Pahalgam terror attack, and the another one on June 17, when he dialled the PM over cancellation of meeting in Canada.
While talking about the ceasefire deal between Thailand and Cambodia on Monday, Trump on Monday claimed that he stopped six major wars, including the conflict between India and Pakistan in May.
"If I weren’t around, you’d have, right now, six major wars going on. India would be fighting with Pakistan," Trump said.
Besides India-Pakistan conflict, Trump boasted about stopping wars between Cambodia and Thailand, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo and even a potential conflict between Serbia and Kosovo.
What about Gaza?
However, reporters confronted him about the ongoing war in Gaza. To this, he replied that the US is providing funds but alleged that much of these are stolen by Hamas. Trump said finding a solution to the Gaza situation is one of the key reasons of his meeting with Starmer.
India has always maintained that the ceasefire with Pakistan in May was reached following direct talks between the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of the two militaries.