India has consistently denied any third-party intervention in its recent military actions and subsequent ceasefire with Pakistan.
Speaking at the American Cornerstone Institute Founder’s Dinner on Saturday, former U.S. President Donald Trump highlighted India’s role in regional peace efforts. “On the world stage, we are once again doing things that we are just respected at a level that we have never been respected before. We are forging peace agreements, and we are stopping wars. So we stopped wars between India and Pakistan, Thailand and Cambodia,” Trump said.
He further emphasized the significance of trade in promoting peace: “Think of India and Pakistan. Think of that. And you know how I stopped that — with trade. They want to trade. And I have great respect for both leaders. But when you take a look at all of these wars that we’ve stopped, just look at that: India, Pakistan, Thailand, Cambodia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kosovo and Serbia, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Rwanda and the Congo. We stopped all of them. And 60 percent of them were stopped because of trade.”
Trump added, “Like with India, I said, ‘Look, we’re not going to do any trade if you’re going to fight and they have nuclear weapons.’ They stopped.”
On the ground, India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. This was in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam attack, which killed 26 civilians. After four days of intense cross-border drone and missile strikes, India and Pakistan reached an understanding on May 10 to end the conflict.
India has maintained that the cessation of hostilities was reached through direct talks between the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of the two countries. Prime Minister Narendra Modi made it clear in Parliament that no foreign leader requested India to stop Operation Sindoor. Additionally, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has categorically stated that there was no third-party intervention in bringing about the ceasefire with Pakistan during the operation.
Addressing a separate topic, Trump shared that he was told if he could help stop the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, he should be awarded the Nobel Prize. He responded, “Well, what about the seven others? I should get a Nobel Prize for each one.” He acknowledged the Russia-Ukraine conflict as “one war, and that’s a big one,” but expressed optimism about resolving it, saying, “I thought the Russia-Ukraine conflict would be easy to resolve because I have a good relationship with President Putin, disappointed in him, but I do. I thought that would be the easiest one, but we’ll get it done one way or the other.”
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