US President Donald Trump has as soon as once more asserted his private intervention led to the cessation of hostilities between India and Pakistan following “Operation Sindoor” in Might 2025, even claiming he believes “4 or 5” jets had been shot down in the course of the battle. These remarks, made for the second time this week, contradict India’s constant denials of any US mediation.
Referring to the newest tensions, which escalated following the April 22, 2025, Pahalgam assault, President Trump stated, “We’ve ended numerous wars. And these had been huge wars. India and Pakistan had been at it, they usually had been backwards and forwards, and it was getting bigger and bigger, and we obtained it resolved by commerce.” He once more asserted his argument that the US introduced concerning the ceasefire by threatening to cancel commerce agreements in case firings throughout the border didn’t stop.
Trump additionally speculated concerning the air side of the struggle: “In reality, plane had been being shot out of the skies. 5, 5, 4 or 5, however I imagine 5 jets had been shot down really,” though he didn’t point out which nation’s planes had been being referred to.
India Rejects Mediation Claims
Exterior Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has persistently dominated out any concept of US intervention within the India-Pakistan de-escalation. Earlier this month, in an interview to Newsweek, Jaishankar defined at size the diplomatic interplay.
He recalled a Might 9, 2025 evening dialog between US Vice President JD Vance and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Jaishankar stated, “I can guarantee you that I used to be current within the room when Vice President Vance referred to as Prime Minister Modi on the night of Might 9 and knowledgeable him that the Pakistanis had been going to make a really huge assault on India…We didn’t hearken to some issues, and the Prime Minister was not involved about what the Pakistanis would do.”
Jaishankar additional added, “Quite the opposite, he (PM Modi) instructed there can be a response from us.” The Indian International Minister then telephoned US Secretary of State Marco Rubio the following morning throughout which Rubio defined that “the Pakistanis had been prepared to speak.”
Although Islamabad formally thanked President Trump for his “mediation,” New Delhi’s adamant place insists that the answer to the battle, by which India initiated “Operation Sindoor” towards the Pahalgam assault, was the results of direct bilateral army and diplomatic efforts, with none interference of mediation.