- Wednesday, June 04, 2025
The US president claimed that Pakistani representatives are coming to Washington next week. “India, as you know, we’re very close to making a deal,” he added
By: India Weekly
US president Donald Trump once again reiterated his claim of stopping the four-day conflict between India and Pakistan, and claimed he was very proud of it.
He has been repeatedly claiming the he had stopped the conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan by warning that US will stop trade if they don’t stop fighting.
India on Thursday rejected the claim and said the issue of trade did not come up at all in talks between Indian and American leaders during its military clashes with Pakistan.
It has consistently maintained that the understanding on cessation of hostilities with Pakistan was reached following direct talks between the Directors General of Military Operations of the two militaries.
India and Pakistan reached an understanding on May 10 to end the conflict after four days of intense cross-border drone and missile strikes.
Trump on Friday said, “I think the deal I’m most proud of is the fact that we’re dealing with India, we’re dealing with Pakistan and we were able to stop potentially a nuclear war through trade as opposed through bullets.”
“Normally they do it through bullets. We do it through trade. So I’m very proud of that. Nobody talks about it but we had a very nasty potential war going on between Pakistan and India. And now, if you look, they’re doing fine,” Trump told reporters.
“It was getting very bad. It was getting very nasty. They are both nuclear powers,” he said.
Trump went on to add that Pakistani representatives are coming to Washington next week.
“India, as you know, we’re very close to making a deal with India,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews after departing Air Force One.
“I wouldn’t have any interest in making a deal with either if they were going to be at war with each other. I would not and I’ll let them know,” Trump said.
This was the second time in a day that Trump repeated his claim that his administration stopped India and Pakistan from fighting.
“We stopped India and Pakistan from fighting. I believe that could have turned out into a nuclear disaster,” Trump said during remarks in the Oval Office Friday afternoon in a press conference with billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who left the Trump administration after helming the Department of Government Efficiency.
Trump added that he wants to thank the “leaders of India, the leaders of Pakistan, and I want to thank my people also. We talked trade and we said ‘We can’t trade with people that are shooting at each other and potentially using nuclear weapons’.”
Trump said that leaders in India and Pakistan are “great leaders” and “they understood, and they agreed, and that all stopped.”
“We are stopping others from fighting also because ultimately, we can fight better than anybody. We have the greatest military in the world. We have the greatest leaders in the world,” Trump said.
India had launched Operation Sindoor to retaliate the terror attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir in which 26 civilians were killed.
The missile attacks launched by India targeted terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Interestingly, the first announcement of a ceasefire on May 10 came from Trump, who congratulated the leaders of the two countries for using “common sense”.
“After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE. Congratulations to both Countries on using Common Sense and Great Intelligence,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
