Trump Claims He Settled India-Pakistan Conflict Despite India's Consistent Denial

India has consistently denied Trump's claim.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday reiterated his assertion that he ended the "very big" conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan.

During his address to military leaders in Quantico, Trump mentioned he was "honoured" when Pakistan Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir, whom he described as "a very important guy in Pakistan," praised him for saving millions of lives.

"I have settled so many wars" in the nine months of his administration, he claimed. "I've settled seven. And yesterday we might have settled the biggest of them all, although I don't know, Pakistan and India was very big, both nuclear powers. I settled that."

Referring to his peace plan for the Gaza conflict announced Monday, Trump said, "We got it, I think, settled. We'll see. Hamas has to agree, and if they don't, it's going to be very tough on them. But it is what it is. But all of the Arab nations, Muslim nations, have agreed."

Trump returned to discussing the India-Pakistan conflict, highlighting how he used trade as leverage. "I had India and Pakistan, (they) were going at it. And I called them both, and in this case, I used trade," Trump explained.

He stated that he told the "two big nuclear nations" that he would not trade with them. According to Trump, they responded, "'No, no, no, no, you cannot do that'. I said, 'yes, I can. You go into this freaking war that I'm hearing about'," adding that seven planes were shot down, though he did not specify which country's aircraft.

"It was starting. There's a lot of bad blood. And I said, 'You do this, there is not going to be any trade'. And I stopped the war. It was going, it was raging for four days, but that was just the beginning, and we stopped it. It was a great thing," Trump asserted.

Last week, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Army Chief Munir met with Trump at the White House.

Trump recounted that the Pakistani Prime Minister "was here along with the Field Marshal, who's a very important guy in Pakistan, and he was here three days ago. And I didn't even realise it, as beautiful as he said it, but he said that to a group of people that were with us, two generals, but a group. He said, 'This man saved millions of lives because he saved the war from going on, and that war was going to get very bad, very, very bad. President Trump saved millions and millions of lives. That was a bad war'."

Trump expressed that he "was very honoured. I loved the way he (Munir) said it." He added that White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was present at the meeting and "she said that was the most beautiful thing. But we saved a lot of them. Saved a lot of them."

Since May 10, when Trump announced on social media that India and Pakistan had agreed to a "full and immediate" ceasefire, he has repeated his claim approximately 50 times that he "helped settle" tensions between the two nations.

During his address to world leaders at the UN last week, Trump again claimed that he stopped the conflict between India and Pakistan.

India has consistently maintained that the understanding on cessation of hostilities with Pakistan was reached through direct talks between the Directors General of Military Operations of both militaries.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has clearly stated in Parliament that no leader of any country asked India to stop Operation Sindoor.

Trump mentioned being told that if he could resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict, he should receive the Nobel Prize. "I said, 'Well, what about the seven others? I should get a Nobel Prize for each one.' So they said, 'But if you stop Russia and Ukraine, sir, you should be able to get the Nobel.' I said I stopped seven wars. That's one war, and that's a big one," he stated.

He added that he had thought resolving the Russia-Ukraine conflict would be straightforward "because I have a good relationship with President Putin. I am disappointed in him, but I do. I thought that would be the easiest one, but we'll get it done one way or the other."