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‘India, Pakistan were going to nuclear war in a week': Trump claims success in ‘settling' military conflicts
US President Donald Trump has once again said that he negotiated a peace deal between India and Pakistan that ended the military conflict following the Pahalgam attack.
His comments came during a meeting with Nato Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Monday. Trump said, 'We've been very successful in settling wars. You have India and Pakistan. You have Rwanda and the Congo, that was going on for 30 years. India, by the way, Pakistan would have been a nuclear war within another week, the way that was going. That was going very badly, and we did that through trade.'
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VIDEO | US President Donald Trump (@POTUS) on India and Pakistan military conflict says, "We've been very successful in settling wars. You have India and Pakistan. You have Rwanda and the Congo, that was going on for 30 years. India, by the way, Pakistan would have been a nuclear… pic.twitter.com/8qvCAzImFL — Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) July 14, 2025
The US president has time and again staked a claim in ending hostilities between India and Pakistan after the former's Operation Sindoor that was launched in response to the Pahalgam terrorist attack, which killed 26 people. While New Delhi has repeatedly denied such claims, Islamabad has thanked Trump for his mediation.
What has India said?
Earlier this month, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar denied US role in mediation between the two neighbouring countries.
In an interview with Newsweek, Jaishankar said, 'I can tell you that I was in the room when Vice President Vance spoke to Prime Minister Modi on the night of May 9, saying that the Pakistanis would launch a very massive assault on India…We did not accept certain things, and the Prime Minister was impervious to what the Pakistanis were threatening to do.'
'On the contrary, he (PM Modi) indicated that there would be a response from us,' he added.
The next communication with Washington occurred the following morning, when the Foreign Minister spoke with the US Secretary of State. During the conversation, Marco Rubio conveyed that 'the Pakistanis were ready to talk,' Jaishankar added.
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Later that afternoon, Pakistan's Director General of Military Operations, Major General Kashif Abdullah, directly contacted his Indian counterpart, Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai, to request a ceasefire.
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