{"id":187168,"date":"2025-11-04T10:32:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=187168"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:32:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:32:47","slug":"trump-reiterates-claim-of-mediating-india-pakistan-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/11\/04\/trump-reiterates-claim-of-mediating-india-pakistan-conflict.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump reiterates claim of mediating India-Pakistan conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-187169\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/as.jpg 422w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/as-352x220.jpg 352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/>Washington: US President Donald Trump has once again asserted that his use of trade tariffs and economic pressure helped prevent a potential nuclear war between India and Pakistan during the May 2025 escalation.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Trump, in an interview with CBS News\u2019 60 Minutes, claimed that both South Asian neighbours were \u201con the brink of nuclear conflict\u201d and that his threat to suspend US trade access compelled them to step back from confrontation and negotiate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt did work with India and it did work with Pakistan. I can tell you if it wasn\u2019t for tariffs and trade, I wouldn\u2019t have been able to make the deals,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIndia does a lot of business with us. They were going to have a nuclear war with Pakistan. I told both of them \u2014 if you guys don\u2019t work out a deal fast, you\u2019re not going to do any business with the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said his intervention helped \u201cstop a bad war\u201d after both countries engaged in cross-border aerial strikes, describing the situation as \u201cdangerously close to nuclear escalation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US President\u2019s remarks refer to the May 2025 flare-up following India\u2019s so-called \u201cOperation Sindoor\u201d. Pakistan responded with measured retaliation, calling India\u2019s actions \u201creckless and provocative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump, meanwhile, expanded his claims to other global conflicts, saying his approach had \u201cworked in 60 per cent of cases,\u201d citing examples such as Cambodia-Thailand, Kosovo-Serbia, Congo-Rwanda, Israel-Iran, and Armenia-Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>Observers note that Trump\u2019s repeated references to the India-Pakistan conflict highlight Washington\u2019s enduring strategic interest in South Asia \u2014 particularly the risk of escalation between the two nuclear-armed rivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: US President Donald Trump has once again asserted that his use of trade tariffs and economic pressure helped prevent a potential nuclear war between India and Pakistan during the May 2025 escalation. According to Kashmir Media Service, Trump, in an interview with CBS News\u2019 60 Minutes, claimed that both South Asian neighbours were \u201con &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":187169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/as.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187170,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187168\/revisions\/187170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}