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No trade links in accepting ceasefire with Pakistan: India
External Affairs Minister Jaishankar clarified that there was no call between Prime Minister Modi and President Trump from April 22 to June 17 which could have lead to the May 10 ceasefire.
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Malvika Choudhary - Mon, 28, Jul 2025
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S. Jaishankar in the Indian Parliament / Sansad TV
India on July 28 dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that he brokered a ceasefire between India and Pakistan in May by leveraging trade. The decision had “no linkage with trade” and “no mediation,” New Delhi said.
“At no stage in any conversation with the United States was there any linkage with trade and what was going on,” Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar said in parliament, adding that there was no call between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump after the April 22 attack on Hindu pilgrims in Pahalgam, Kashmir, which killed 26 civilians, till June 17.
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‘There was no call between the Prime Minister and President Trump from the 22nd of April, when President Trump called up to convey his sympathy, and the 17th of June, when he called up the Prime Minister in Canada to explain why he could not meet,” Jaishankar clarified.
“On May 10, we received phone calls sharing the impression that Pakistan was ready to cease the fighting. Our position was that we need to receive this request through the DGMO (Director General of Military Operations) channel. That is exactly how the request came,” he said.
The minister said India’s decision to halt the military campaign was based entirely on operational assessments and was initiated after a formal ceasefire request was received through military channels from Pakistan.
India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), after what it said was credible intelligence of cross-border involvement in the April attack. The operation included cross-border drone and missile strikes.
Trump has said multiple times since May 10 that he played a role in negotiating peace between the nuclear-armed neighbours. He most recently repeated the claim during a press briefing in Scotland alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, stating, "I settled it through trade."
Union Home Minister Amit Shah also intervened during the speech, accusing the opposition of undermining India’s position by accepting foreign claims over the statement of India’s Foreign Minister.
“I object to one thing: when India’s external affairs minister, who has taken oath, is speaking, they choose to believe someone from another country instead,” Shah said amid protests from opposition members.
Opposition parties had questioned the effectiveness of Operation Sindoor and the intelligence failure behind the Pahalgam attack, as well as the nature of international support India received.
In response, Jaishankar pointed to a statement from the United Nations Security Council condemning the Pahalgam attack and underlining the need to hold the perpetrators accountable. He also said that The Resistance Front (TRF), which claimed responsibility for the attack, had been designated as a global terrorist group by the United States following India’s diplomatic outreach.
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