Donald Trump Played a Key Role in India-Pakistan Ceasefire

Washington: The White House has once again emphasized that former US President Donald Trump played an important role in the ceasefire between India and Pakistan. A senior White House official, John Kirby, said in a recent statement that during Trump’s tenure, he had shown activeness in reducing the growing tension between the two nuclear-powerful countries, avoiding a major military conflict.

The statement came at a time when Donald Trump himself is repeatedly claiming that he abolished the enmity between the two countries through the threat of the trade deal. According to Trump, the situation between the two countries at that time was so serious that they were on the verge of “major nuclear war”, which they stopped with their diplomatic intervention.

However, India’s attitude has always been that the struggle on the Line of Control (LOC) was taken by mutual negotiations between the DGMOS, the Director General of the two countries, and not by the intervention of any third party. But Pakistan, through the then Prime Minister Imran Khan, had given credit for this mediation to the US and Trump himself.

During the Trump administration, even in February 2021, India and Pakistan agreed to strictly implement the ceasefire agreement on LOC, which was welcomed by the US. This was the same period when Pakistan claimed that it had killed five Indian jets aircraft, while India also claimed to have demolished Pakistani aircraft.

White House official John Kirby stressed in a recent statement that the US aims to promote peace and stability in South Asia. It is important in the context of long-standing geopolitical stresses in the region.