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Indo-Pak truce: Congress seeks clarity on US role; EAM clarifies
The Statesman Kolkata
|May 23, 2025
The cessation of firing & military action had been negotiated directly between India and Pakistan
The Congress on Thursday reiterated its demand for clarification from the government regarding repeated claims by US President Donald Trump of brokering the India-Pakistan ceasefire. "For the 8th time in 11 days, President Trump has-1. Claimed full credit for the ceasefire between India and Pakistan. 2. Praised the PMs of India and Pakistan equally and put them on par in every way 3. Reiterated that trade with the US was the instrument he used to get India and Pakistan to declare a ceasefire," Congress General Secretary in-charge Communications Jairam Ramesh alleged in a post on platform X.
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