NEW DELHI: Congress on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi after US President Donald Trump, yet again, claimed that he stopped the war between India and Pakistan using trade as leverage.Congress leader Pawan Khera said that PM Modi will undermine India’s interests for a little praise.“From China to the US, the world knows that the greatest weakness of Prime Minister Modi is applause, approval, validation,” Khera wrote in a social media post on X.“Just praise him a little and Modi will undermine India’s interests – giving clean chits to China and surrendering to threats of the US,” he added.This comes after Trump, once again, claimed that he ended the war between India and Pakistan through a series of calls.“The most important of all, India and Pakistan…I ended that with a series of phone calls on trade. I said if you’re going to go fighting each other, we’re not doing any trade deal. The General from Pakistan was in my office last week,” Trump said.“Prime Minister Modi is a great friend of mine. He’s a great gentleman, he’s a great man. I got them to reason, and I said, we’re not doing a trade deal if you’re going to fight. They said, no, I want to do the trade deal. We stopped the nuclear war,” he added.However, India has firmly denied any foreign mediation in its engagement with Pakistan. In a conversation with President Trump, Prime Minister Narendra Modi clarified that India rejects any form of external mediation in its bilateral matters with Pakistan.India will never countenance any form of mediation in its relations with Pakistan and there was no discussion at any level between India and the US about the proposed trade deal, or American intervention, during the events that unfolded after Operation Sindoor, PM Modi told Trump in his recent telephonic conversation.Tensions between India and Pakistan flared following the April 22 terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam. India conducted precision strikes on terror infrastructure located in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in the early hours of May 7.Pakistan retaliated with attempted strikes on Indian military installations on May 8, 9, and 10, which were met with strong responses from India. Hostilities ceased after a mutual understanding was reached between the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of both nations on May 10. India has consistently maintained that this de-escalation was achieved through direct military-to-military dialogue and not through any third-party intervention.