Responding to a query on whether or not he would change his stance on tariffs throughout a White Home briefing, Trump mentioned, “If I did not have the facility of tariffs, you'd have not less than 4 of the seven wars raging… If you happen to have a look at India and Pakistan, they had been able to go at it. Seven planes had been shot down… I do not need to say precisely what I mentioned, however what I mentioned was very efficient… Not solely did we make a whole bunch of billions of {dollars}, however we're a peacekeeper due to tariffs.”
Trump's remarks referred to the tensions that adopted India's Operation Sindoor in Could 2025, when the Indian Armed Forces carried out air and missile strikes on terror bases in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Pakistan, following a terror assault in Pahalgam that killed 26 civilians.
This isn't the primary time Trump has claimed to have prevented a battle between the 2 Asian neighbours as he has repeatedly cited tariffs as a key international coverage device to have helped to cease ‘nuclear battle' between India and Pakistan.
India has persistently dismissed claims of international intervention in its nationwide safety operations. The Ministry of Exterior Affairs reiterated that “no third-party mediation was sought or accepted” throughout Operation Sindoor. Officers have maintained that Pakistan had reached out to India's DGMO to cease the battle.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has maintained India's autonomy in its nationwide safety choices, significantly throughout Operation Sindoor. In a press release to the Lok Sabha on July 29, 2025, he clarified that “no world chief requested India to cease its counter-terror operation towards Pakistan.”Moreover, throughout his tackle to the nation on Could 12, 2025, following the Pahalgam terror assault, Prime Minister Modi confused on India's dedication to eradicating terrorism. He mentioned, “We gave full freedom to the Indian forces to wipe out the terrorists.”Exterior Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar additionally clarified that commerce discussions with the US didn't happen through the interval of Operation Sindoor, countering Trump's suggestion that tariff threats had any bearing on India's army posture.
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