India-Pakistan war: Modi says ceasefire was direct, No Trump’s involvement
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has once again dismissed claims that any global leader intervened to stop India’s military operation “Operation Sandur.” Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Modi directly refuted U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated assertions that he played a role in brokering peace between India and Pakistan.
Modi clarified that no international leader asked India to halt its military action. He revealed that on the night of May 9, U.S. Vice President JD Vance attempted to contact him multiple times. Modi was in a meeting with military officials at the time and couldn’t take the call immediately. When he returned the call, Vance warned that Pakistan was preparing a major strike. Modi says he responded firmly: “If Pakistan attacks, it will have to pay a heavy price. We will respond to bullets with shells.”
Despite Trump’s frequent claims—repeated nearly 29 times according to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi—that he helped prevent war, Modi insists that the ceasefire agreement made on May 10 was a direct understanding between the two nations’ armed forces, with no third-party mediation involved.
Rahul Gandhi also challenged Trump’s narrative, highlighting the President’s meeting with Pakistan’s military chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, who is allegedly linked to the terror attack that escalated tensions. Gandhi questioned how someone accused of orchestrating violence could be sitting down for lunch with Trump while claiming to seek peace.
Modi’s firm statements in Parliament have reignited debate around foreign involvement in South Asia’s geopolitics, once again putting Trump’s controversial claims under scrutiny.
