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Jaishankar refutes Trump's claim of using trade to force India-Pakistan ceasefire
Indian Chronicle
|July 10, 2025
With his firsthand account of the talks between New Delhi and Washington, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar has dismissed the claims of US President Donald Trump that he used trade to force India and Pakistan to accept a ceasefire.
He said on Monday that he was with Prime Minister Narendra Modi when US Vice President JD Vance spoke to him by phone, and there was no linking of trade and ceasefire as far as India was concerned.“I can tell you that | was in the room when Vice President Vance spoke to Prime Minister Modi on the night of May 9, saying that the Pakistanis would launch a very massive assault on India,” he said. “We did not accept certain things,” he said, “and the Prime Minister was impervious to what the Pakistanis were threatening to do.““On the contrary, he (PM Modi) indicated that there would be a response from us,” he said, giving the chronology of interactions. “The Pakistanis did attack us massively that night,
This story is from the July 10, 2025 edition of Indian Chronicle.
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