US President Donald Trump on Thursday as soon as once more claimed credit score for mediating peace between India and Pakistansaying, “Inside 24 hours I had a peace deal,” referring to the heightened army tensions in Could throughout Operation SindoorIndia’s retaliatory strike following the Pahalgam terror assault that killed 26 individuals in South Kashmir.Trump, who has repeatedly asserted he mediated peace between the 2 nuclear-armed neighbors, made the most recent remarks throughout an interview with Fox Information. Responding to a query about his efforts in bringing events to the desk for the Gaza peace deal, Trump stated, “Being able to make use of tariffs have introduced peace to the world… You understand I made seven peace offers.”He stated a number of nations had been engaged in extended conflicts, with hundreds of thousands killed over time. “Not in all circumstances however in all probability at the least 5 of the seven (peace offers) we have carried out to this point had been by commerce, that we aren’t going to cope with individuals who battle and we’ll put tariffs on you…”Referring to India and Pakistan, Trump stated, “You take a look at India and Pakistan, I stated effectively we aren’t going to do enterprise with both of you if you happen to do not put it collectively. These are two nuclear nations. Seven planes had been shot down as they usually had been actually at it… I stated we aren’t going to do any enterprise with you, we aren’t going to have something to do with you, we’re going to out huge tariffs on you and in each circumstances they stated, effectively we’ll begin speaking about it. There may be large quantities of cash and energy that we’re coping with and inside 24 hours I had a peace deal that they stopped the combating …”Operation Sindoor was launched on Could 7 following the fear assault in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, which claimed 26 lives. The operation focused terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK). The Indian Armed Forces additionally repelled subsequent Pakistani aggression and hit its airbases.Following India’s sturdy response, Pakistan’s Director Basic of Navy Operations (DGMO) reached out to his Indian counterpart to hunt a cessation of hostilities.Earlier, on October 3, Indian Air Pressure Chief Air Chief Marshal A PSingh stated that in Operation Sindoor, the IAF destroyed 12–13 of Pakistan’s fight plane, together with “4 to 5 F-16s on floor and 5 F-16s and JF-17s within the air together with two spy planes.”Addressing a press convention on the event of the 93rd Air Pressure Day in New Delhi, the Chief of Air Employees stated 5 Pakistani fighter jets — “which may very well be F-16s or Pakistan’s ‘delight’, the spine of its air pressure, Chinese language JF-17s” — had been shot down utilizing the long-range surface-to-air missile (LRSAM) S-400 *Triumf* “Sudarshan Chakra” system.He added that one other “4 to 5 F-16s, which had been present process upkeep in hangars, had been destroyed after the IAF peppered them,” and that a number of Pakistani airbases had been cratered, damaging “radars, command centres, runways, hangars, and a surface-to-air missile (SAM) system.”Trump has continuously repeated his declare of mediating peace between India and Pakistan. On September 21, he reiterated the assertion whereas talking on the American Cornerstone Institute Founder’s Dinner, saying he needs to be honored with the Nobel Prize for “ending seven wars.”“We’re forging peace agreements, and we’re stopping wars. So we stopped wars between India and Pakistan, Thailand and Cambodia,” Trump stated. “Consider India and Pakistan. Consider that. And you know the way I ended that — with commerce. They wish to commerce. And I’ve nice respect for each leaders. However whenever you check out all of those wars that we have Stopped,” he added.Nonetheless, India has constantly refuted Trump’s claims, sustaining that points regarding Jammu and Kashmir are strictly bilateral and that no third-party mediation is suitable.