Trump claims he stopped India-Pakistan conflict through trade

US President Donald Trump has again claimed to have stopped the brief conflict between India and Pakistan in May and said seven brand new beautiful planes were shot downTrump while delivering remarks at a dinner with business leaders during his visit to Japan on Tuesday local time said that he stopped the conflict through tradeA lot of the wars that I stopped were because of tariffs and be frankly I did a great service to the world but because of tariffs because of trade If you look at India and Pakistan they were going at it Seven planes were shot down Seven brand new beautiful planes were shot down and they were going at it at two big nuclear powers he saidTrump then claimed that he told Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistans Army Chief Asim Munir to stop the conflict or the US would not do trade with themAnd I said to Prime Minister Modi the prime minister very nice man a very good man and the field marshal over in Pakistan I said Look were not going to do any trade if youre going to be fight No no no One thing has nothing to do with the other I said It has a lot to do with the other two nuclear powers We get that nuclear dust all over the place All of you are affected right And we said No were not doing any deals if youre going to fight And within about 24 hours that was the end of that It was amazing actually he saidTrump then said that through this tactic he stopped other warsAnd weve done numerous like that I would say trade is responsible for 7037 of the fact that we didnt have wars by using our heads because they want to trade with the United States But I said were not going to trade if youre going to go to war And its amazing how quickly they were able to make deals And you know they would have been fighting for 10 years killing millions of people numerous of them So were very happy about that he saidHowever India has consistently refuted the claims made by the US President stressing that the decision of cessation of hostilities with Pakistan was reached through direct diplomatic engagement between the two nations and no third party was involvedIt was Indias longstanding position that any issue with Pakistan including those related to Jammu and Kashmir is to be resolved bilaterally between the two countriesIndias Operation Sindoor initiated on May 7 in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack which claimed the lives of 26 innocent civilians showcased a calibrated triservices response that embodied precision professionalism and purpose Operation Sindoor was conceived as a punitive and targeted campaign to dismantle the terror infrastructure across the Line of Control and deeper inside PakistanThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever