The United States said President Donald Trump was very engaged in diplomatic effort to end hostilities between India and Pakistan, the two nuclear-armed countries that fought a four-day conflict in May. India-Pakistan conflict
America’s top diplomat Marco Rubio told the UN General Assembly that after beginning his White House term, President Trump made it a priority to restore peace anywhere in the world. India-Pakistan conflict
“When President Trump took office, he made it among his highest priorities the restoration of peace anywhere and everywhere in the world where the opportunity presented itself,” Secretary of State Rubio told members of the Assembly during a discussion on the war in Ukraine.
He echoed President Trump’s statement that his effort to resolve conflicts was “met with great success in a number of places.”
Zeroing in on the deadly 87-hour conflict between India and Pakistan, Rubio noted that Trump was greatly involved in the ceasefire diplomacy.
“We had a conflict between India and Pakistan, which was a very dangerous conflict, and one that he chose to engage in and was able to bring it to – be very involved in bringing it to a cessation of hostilities.”
Islamabad has acknowledged Trump’s role in ending the hostilities with its South Asian neighbor India and also nominated the U.S. president for Nobel Peace Prize for next year.
However, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has contradicted President Trump’s statement and claimed that India and Pakistan resolved the conflict mutually through their military channels.
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In his address to the 80th session of the UNGA, President Trump, who announced a ceasefire between India and Pakistan on May 10, reiterated that he stopped the conflict between India and Pakistan.
“In a period of just seven months, I have ended seven unendable wars. They said they were unendable…Some were going for 31 years. Two of them, 31 think of it, 31 years. One was 36 years, one was 28 years,” Trump said.
“I ended seven wars, and in all cases, they were raging, with countless thousands of people being killed. This includes Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the Congo and Rwanda, a vicious, violent war that was, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Armenia and Azerbaijan,” Trump added.
Trump has also noted in the past that India-Pakistan conflict could have gone nuclear.
The May 7 to 10 conflict – that took place in the backdrop of tensions around a militant attack on Indian tourists in Kashmir’s Pahalgam area – was a major embarrassment for New Delhi, as it lost six warplanes including high-tech French Rafale jets in one of the biggest aerial dogfights in the history.
India had blamed Pakistan-based militants for attack in the Indian-administered Kashmir and carried out aerial strikes on what it called terrorist infrastructure in the operation called Sindhoor. Pakistan responded with a retaliatory operation of its own, inflicting heavy damages on the Indian side.
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Ali Imran is a Washington-based journalist, who has worked for leading world news organizations as correspondent, expert and in editorial positions. He is a published author and poet.
