External affairs minister S Jaishankar on July 3 clarified again that the ceasefire between India and Pakistan was reached after talks between the two sides and not due to any trade-related threats as US President Donald Trump claimed recently again.
Jaishankar said the agreement following the conflict in May was reached after negotiation between the DGMOs of both the nations.
"The record of what happened at that time was very clear and the ceasefire was something which was negotiated between the DGMOs of the two countries. I will leave it at that," said the minister, who is on a visit to the US.
India and Pakistan were engaged in a military conflict in May following New Delhi’s Operation Sindoor, which destroyed terror infrastructure in the neighbouring country. The operation was launched in response to the Pahalgam terror attack in April that led to the death of 26 civilians.
Trump has claimed multiple times that he used the threat of cancelling trade talks to mediate a ceasefire between India and Pakistan and end the conflict.
India has dismissed this claim and has maintained that all the issues will be discussed bilaterally and no third-party intervention will be entertained.
In an interview with Newsweek earlier during the week, the minister rejected Trump’s mediation claim and said he was in the room when Vice President JD Vance spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“… I can tell you that when I was in the room when Vice President Vance spoke to Prime Minister Modi on the night of 9th May saying that you know the Pakistanis would launch a very massive assault on India if we did not accept certain things 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 ... this was the night before," he said.
Moreover, Jaishankar pointed out that it has always been New Delhi’s stance to keep issues with Pakistan bilateral.
“In terms of what has been our position, yes, we have for many years it's not a position just of this government in Delhi, I mean it's been a national consensus that our dealings with Pakistan are bilateral,” he had said during the interview.
With agency inputs
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