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EAM: No Modi-Trump phone call during India-Pak hostilities
Hindustan Times Pune
|July 31, 2025
External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday reiterated the assertion that the US had no role in ending hostilities between India and Pakistan in May, telling the Rajya Sabha in the face of Opposition criticism that there was no phone call between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump during tensions.
Jaishankar’s remarks, made while participating in a special debate on Operation Sindoor, came a day after Trump repeated his claim about ending the hostilities that erupted after India targeted terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir in retaliation for the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 civilians.
‘Trump has continued reiterating the claim despite denials from the Indian leadership, which has maintained there is no room for mediation between India and Pakistan.
“I want to make three things clear. One, there was no leader, nobody anywhere in the world, who asked India to stop its operations...Number two, there was no linkage with trade...in any of those conversations. And there was no call between Prime Minister and President Trump,” Jaishankar said.
This story is from the July 31, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Pune.
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