India rejects Trump's claim his trade concessions de-escalated India-Pakistan tensions

NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian authorities connected Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s assertion that helium helped broker a ceasefire betwixt India and Pakistan successful speech for commercialized concessions.

Addressing a play quality conference, Randhir Jaiswal, the spokesperson for India’s overseas ministry, said apical leaders successful New Delhi and Washington were successful interaction past week pursuing the Indian military’s aggravated standoff with Pakistan, but determination was nary speech connected trade.

“The contented of commercialized didn't not travel up successful immoderate of these discussions,” Jaiswal said, referring to the conversations held betwixt U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, arsenic good arsenic betwixt U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Indian counterpart, S. Jaishankar.

Following Saturday’s knowing reached betwixt India and Pakistan successful what was a U.S.-mediated ceasefire to halt subject enactment connected land, successful the aerial and astatine sea, Trump told reporters connected Monday that helium offered to assistance some the nations with commercialized if they agreed to de-escalate.

“I said, travel on, we’re going to bash a batch of commercialized with you guys. Let’s halt it. Let’s halt it. If you halt it, we’ll bash a trade. If you don’t halt it, we’re not going to bash immoderate trade,’” Trump said.

“And each of a sudden, they said, I deliberation we’re going to stop,” Trump said, crediting commercialized leverage for influencing some the nations’ decision. “For a batch of reasons, but commercialized is simply a large one,” helium said.

The militaries of India and Pakistan had been engaged successful 1 of their astir superior confrontations successful decades since past Wednesday, erstwhile India struck targets wrong Pakistan it said were affiliated with militants liable for the massacre of 26 tourists past month successful Indian-controlled Kashmir.

After India's strikes successful Pakistan, some sides exchanged dense occurrence on their de facto borders, followed by rocket and drone strikes into each other’s territories, mainly targeting subject installations and airbases.

The escalating hostilities betwixt the nuclear-armed rivals threatened determination peace, starring to calls by satellite leaders to chill down tempers.

Trump said helium not lone helped mediate the ceasefire, but besides offered mediation implicit the simmering quality successful Kashmir, a Himalayan portion that some India and Pakistan assertion successful entirety but administer successful parts. The 2 nations person fought 2 wars implicit Kashmir, which has agelong been described arsenic the determination atomic flashpoint.

New Delhi besides rejected Trump's connection for mediation connected Tuesday.

“We person a longstanding nationalist presumption that immoderate issues related to the federally controlled national territory of Jammu and Kashmir indispensable beryllium addressed by India and Pakistan bilaterally. There has been nary alteration to the stated policy,” Jaiswal said.