US monitoring Pakistan-India situation daily as ceasefire remains fragile: Rubio
Washington: The United States has said it monitors developments between Pakistan and India “every single day,” acknowledging that ceasefires between the two nuclear-armed neighbours can collapse quickly if not maintained.
According to Kashmir Media Service, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, said, “Every single day we keep an eye on what’s happening between Pakistan and India… ceasefires can fall apart very quickly.” He emphasized that the ultimate goal should be a peace deal to prevent future wars.
In a separate interview with Fox Business, Rubio referred to the recent India-Pakistan conflict that former US President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed he helped defuse. Rubio said the Trump administration “made peace and its achievement a priority,” citing India-Pakistan among examples where Washington worked to reduce tensions.
Since May 10, when Trump announced that India and Pakistan had agreed to a “full and immediate” ceasefire after a “long night” of US-mediated talks, he has reiterated more than 40 times that he played a direct role in stopping hostilities, even warning that the confrontation risked turning nuclear.
However, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has publicly denied US involvement. Modi told Parliament that no leader had asked India to halt “Operation Sindoor,” while External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar rejected any suggestion of third-party mediation or trade linkage to the ceasefire.
Despite New Delhi’s denial, Trump has continued to assert that his administration prevented a potentially catastrophic escalation between Pakistan and India. He told reporters after his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin that Washington’s intervention stopped a war that “could have gone nuclear.”
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