India and Pakistan decided to stop the conflict and cease the hostilities on May 10. Since then, Trump has repeatedly claimed that he brokered a deal and “helped settle” the tension between the two neighbouring countries and claimed  America would do a “lot of trade” with them if they stopped the conflict.

Trump, who hosted Pakistan’s Army chief Munir, said, “The reason I had him here, I want to thank him for not going into the war, ending the war. And I want to thank, as you know, Prime Minister Modi just left a little while ago, and we’re working on a trade deal with India. We’re working on a trade deal with Pakistan.”

The Republican leader, for the first time in weeks, didn’t take the credit for stopping the military conflict between India and Pakistan and said that “I was with Modi a few weeks ago. He was here actually, but now we speak to him. And I’m so happy that two smart people…two very smart people decided not to keep going with that war. That could have been a nuclear war.”

According to a video statement by Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, PM Modi in his call with Trump, conveyed to him that at “no point” during Operation Sindoor was there any discussion, at any level, on an India-US trade deal or any proposal for mediation by the US between India and Pakistan.

PM Modi made India’s position clear that India will never accept the mediation of a third party, and there is complete political consensus in India on this matter, said Misri.