Modi denies Trump’s claim that he ‘stopped the war’ between India and Pakistan

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi utilized his archetypal speech with President Donald Trump since the aboriginal May conflict betwixt India and Pakistan to explicit his vexation with Trump’s repeated claims that helium played a important relation successful brokering a ceasefire betwixt the 2 nuclear-armed countries.

“Prime Minister Modi firmly stated that India does not and volition ne'er judge mediation. There is implicit governmental statement successful India connected this matter,” Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said successful a statement.

During a Tuesday telephone telephone betwixt the 2 leaders, Modi “clearly conveyed” to Trump that the U.S. played nary relation successful the mediation betwixt India and Pakistan and denied immoderate treatment of a commercialized deal, Misri said.

The 35-minute telephone was initiated by Trump, helium added.

The White House did not supply a abstracted readout of the call.

The 2 leaders past spoke successful aboriginal May, aft an April terror attack by Islamist militants successful the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir killed 26 civilians.

India responded with a tit-for-tat bombing successful Pakistan, resulting successful a four-day conflict that threatened to detonate into a broader warfare fueled by decades of tensions betwixt the 2 countries.

Trump has repeatedly claimed that the U.S. played a important relation successful the eventual de-escalation of tensions betwixt Islamabad and New Delhi.

“I stopped the warfare betwixt Pakistan and India,” Trump said extracurricular the White House connected Wednesday, wherever helium called Modi “a fantastic man.”

Trump has besides precocious compared the existent conflict betwixt Israel and Iran to past month’s India-Pakistan conflict. Trump said Sunday that Israel and Iran should marque a woody “just similar I got India and Pakistan to make.”

The strident code of India’s connection Wednesday was astir apt owed successful portion to Trump’s determination to big Pakistan’s main of Army Staff for luncheon astatine the White House.

Trump told reporters astatine the White House that the luncheon was intended to “thank him for not going into the war” and to sermon a imaginable commercialized woody with the country.

The president besides touted evident advancement connected a commercialized woody with India.

Trump and Modi had been scheduled to conscionable in-person astatine the Group of Seven acme successful Canada this week. But Trump left a time early, with the White House saying helium chopped the travel abbreviated owed to tensions successful the Middle East.