Trump says tariff threat stopped India-Pakistan war; claims Modi, Sharif called

US President Donald Trump has said he settled tension between India and Pakistan after threatening the two countries with 350 per cent tariffs and claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had called him to say were not going to go to warTrump has repeated the claim over 60 times that he helped settle tension between India and Pakistan in May this year even as India has consistently denied any thirdparty intervention Im good at settling disputes and Ive always been Ive done very well with that over the years even before this I was talking about the different wars India Pakistan they were going to go at it nuclear weapons Trump said on WednesdaySpeaking at the USSaudi Investment Forum attended by visiting Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Trump said that he told the two nucleararmed neighbours that they can go at it but Im putting a 350 per cent tariff on each country No more trade with the United StatesClaiming that both India and Pakistan told him not to do it Trump said that he told them Im going to do it Come back to me and Ill take it down But Im not going to have you guys shooting nuclear weapons at each other killing millions of people and having the nuclear dust floating over Los Angeles Im not going to do itTrump then said that he was all set and told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that he will put a 350 per cent tariff to settle the conflict and added if the countries stopped the war well make a nice trade deal as they are in the midst of the negotiations for the trade dealNow no other president would have done that I used tariffs to settle all these wars not all of them Five of the eight were settled because of the economy because of trade because of tariffs Trump said I did thisHe added that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called him and thanked him in front of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles for saving millions of livesTrump then claimed that he got a call from Prime Minister Modi saying were done I said youre done with what Trump said and claimed Modi replied Were not going to go to warTrump said he then thanked Modi and said Lets make a dealThe US president also added that he saved a lot of people millions of people in many other warsTrump had repeated the claim that he stopped the war between India and Pakistan a day earlier too during a bilateral meeting with the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval OfficeSince May 10 when Trump announced on social media that India and Pakistan had agreed to a full and immediate ceasefire after a long night of talks mediated by Washington he has repeated his claim over 60 times that he helped settle the tensions between India and PakistanIndia launched Operation Sindoor on May 7 targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistanoccupied Kashmir in retaliation for the Pahalgam attack that killed 26 civiliansIndia has consistently denied any thirdparty intervention and maintained that the understanding on cessation of hostilities with Pakistan was reached on May 10 following direct talks between the Directors General of Military Operations DGMOs of the two militariesThis 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