U.S. President Donald Trump Tuesday said he called both Pakistan and India to stop the war between the two nuclear-armed countries and again praised the Pakistani leadership for acknowledging that by doing so he saved millions of lives.
\n\u201cIndia and Pakistan were going at it. I called them both\u2026 They had just shot down seven planes\u2026 I said, if you do this, there\u2019s not going to be any trade, and I stopped the war. It was raging for four days,\u201d he told American military commanders at Quantico, Virginia, near Washington DC.
\nTrump said he leveraged U.S. trade to end the war that the two countries fought between May 7 and 10, engaging in one of the largest aerial combats in modern warfare.
\nPakistan declared that it shot down six Indian fighter jets including super-sophisticated French Rafale jets. Later, India acknowledged the losses, though without revealing the exact number of jets lost.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd in this case, I use trade. I\u2019m not going to trade with you. You start two nuclear nations. Big nuclear. No, no, no. You cannot do that. You go into this freaking war and I stopped it.\u201d
\nOn May 10, Trump announced in a social media post that India and Pakistan had agreed to a ceasefire after U.S. diplomatic engagement.
\nTrump also said that he was \u201chonoured\u201d when Pakistan Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir, who he called \u201ca very important guy in Pakistan\u201d, praised him for saving millions of lives.
\n\u201cI have settled so many wars\u201d in the nine months of his administration, he said. \u201cI\u2019ve settled seven. And yesterday we might have settled the biggest of them all, although I don\u2019t know, Pakistan and India was very big, both nuclear powers. I settled that.\u201d
\nReferring to his peace plan to end the Gaza conflict, announced on Monday, Trump said, \u201cWe got it, I think, settled. We\u2019ll see. Hamas has to agree, and if they don\u2019t, it\u2019s going to be very tough on them. But it is what it is. But all of the Arab nations, Muslim nations, have agreed.\u201d In his remarks, Trump again went back to the conflict between India and Pakistan and praised the Pakistani officials for lauding him for saving millions of lives.
\nIn a sign of rapidly warming U.S.-Pakistan relations, Trump spoke of his Oval Office meeting with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir.
\n \u201cThe prime minister of Pakistan was here along with the Field Marshal (Asim Munir) who\u2019s a very important guy in Pakistan. And he was here three days ago,\u201d the U.S. president noted, referring to last Friday\u2019s meeting.
\nThe US president said he was honoured by Pakistani military chief\u2019s words.
\n\u201cAnd I didn\u2019t even realize it as beautifully as he (Asim Munir) said it, but he said that to a group of people that were with us\u2026He (Asim Munir) said, \u2018This man (Donald Trump) saved millions of lives because he stopped the war from going on,\u2019\u201d Trump said.
\n\u201cThat war was going to get very bad. I was very honored. I love the way he (Asim Munir) said it. Susie Wiles (White House Chief of Staff) was there. She said that was the most beautiful thing. But we saved a lot of them,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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