U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday (May 15, 2025) repeated his claim yet again that he “helped settle” the tensions between India and Pakistan.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday (May 15, 2025) repeated his claim yet again that he “helped settle” the tensions between India and Pakistan.
“…And by the way, I don’t want to say I did, but I sure as hell helped settle the problem between Pakistan and India last week, which was getting more and more hostile,” he said while addressing U.S. military personnel at al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
“And all of a sudden, you’ll start seeing missiles of a different type. And we got it settled. I hope, I hope I don’t walk out of here and two days later find out that it’s not settled, but I think it is settled,” Mr. Trump said.
This is the sixth time since Saturday (May 10) that Mr. Trump has claimed that the U.S. brokered the “ceasefire” between New Delhi and Islamabad.
India carried out precision strikes under ‘Operation Sindoor’ on terror infrastructure early on May 7 in response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 people.
Following the Indian action, Pakistan attempted to attack Indian military bases on May 8, 9 and 10. The Indian forces launched a fierce counter-attack on several Pakistani military installations.
After three days of intense military hostilities, India and Pakistan have reached an “understanding” about stopping “military action” and “firing”, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar announced on Saturday (May 10).
In his address to U.S. troops on Thursday, Mr. Trump again claimed that he talked to the countries about “trade”.
“Let’s do trade instead of do war. And Pakistan was very happy with that, and India was very happy with that, and I think they’re on the way, you know, they have been fighting for about 1,000 years in all fairness,” he said as he laughed slightly.
“So I said, you know, I could settle that up. I can settle anything. Let me set it up. Let’s get them all together. How long have you been fighting? About 1,000 years. Oh, that’s a lot. I’m not sure about that. I’m not sure about settling. That’s a tough one. They’ve been fighting for a long time, but we got that settled. Nobody, boy, everybody was very happy. I’ll tell you that looked like it was really going to be escalating out of control,” he added.
On Saturday (May 10), Mr. Trump announced that India and Pakistan had agreed to a “full and immediate ceasefire” after a “long night of talks mediated by the United States.”
Published – May 15, 2025 08:13 pm IST
