The White House credited President Donald Trump for resolving India-Pakistan conflict, with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt touting his foreign policy as aggressive, results-driven, and underappreciated. Leavitt’s comments come days after the US president’s repeated remark that he mediated the ceasefire between the two nuclear-armed countries by using the trade bogey.
“Look at what the president has done on the world stage,” Leavitt told reporters during a press briefing. “He has ended wars, like India and Pakistan. He continues to work aggressively to end the war in Russia and Ukraine. He completely obliterated Iran’s nuclear sites. He has continued to hopefully negotiate a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza, to end that conflict and release all of the hostages.”
TRUMP’S TRUCE CLAIM
Trump has made comments on multiple occasions that the US brokered peace and made a ceasefire possible between India and Pakistan last month, even though India refuted repeated claims by him.
India and Pakistan were engaged in the worst military conflict in decades after New Delhi’s Operation Sindoor precision strikes against Pakistani terror infrastructure on May 7 in retaliation against the Pahalgam terror attack, which claimed 26 civilian lives on April 22.
New Delhi blamed the attack on Pakistan, which denied responsibility. Washington strongly condemned the attack but stopped short of directly accusing Islamabad.
The two countries reached a ceasefire understanding on May 10, which Trump announced and said that he brokered it with US diplomatic intervention. India, on the other hand, refuted the claim, saying the Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) of Pakistan called on his Indian counterpart and requested a stop to the hostilities.
TRUMP CLAIMS 4–5 JETS DOWN IN CONFLICT
US President Donald Trump has also said that around 4–5 jets were shot down during the India-Pakistan hostilities in May. However, Trump, who made the remarks at a dinner with some Republican lawmakers at the White House, did not specify whether the jets belonged to India or Pakistan.
Pakistan had claimed that it downed five Indian planes in air-to-air combat after India launched Operation Sindoor. However, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan has dismissed Pakistan’s claim even though he admitted that an unspecified number of fighter jets were downed during the hostilities.
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With inputs from ANI
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