US President Donald Trump on Monday (local time) reiterated a claim he has made more than 20 times since the end of an 88-hour India-Pakistan conflict in May: that he played a big role in stopping it.
New Delhi has often rejected these claims, saying that the stoppage of India-Pakistan hostilities was a bilateral decision involving the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs), and sought by Pakistan.
"I have solved 8 wars. Thailand is starting to shape up with Cambodia, but I think we have it in pretty good shape ... We stopped a potential nuclear war between Pakistan and India," he told reporters during a press interaction at the White House.
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"8 planes were shot down," he added, also claiming that Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif had praised him for saving "ten million lives, maybe more".
India, on the other hand, has maintained that its Operation Sindoor—a series of precision strikes on terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan—was launched in response to the devastating Pahalgam attack of April 22, which led to the deaths of 26 civilians.
The 88-hour conflict that followed Operation Sindoor saw both sides engaged in cross-border attacks till May 10, when Pakistan's DGMO reportedly requested that the hostilities be ceased.
Trump also said in the press interaction that Thailand was "starting to shape up" with Cambodia, referring to another of the eight nations he allegedly brought peace to. The clashes between the two nations restarted in December after months of a fragile peace since July this year.
"The only war I haven't solved yet is Russia-Ukraine," he lamented, noting that there was "tremendous hatred" between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
