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New Delhi: US president Donald Trump has once again repeated the claim that he used trade to bring tensions down between India and Pakistan in May. This time, he said that he used the threat of a 250% tariff imposition with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan prime minister Shehbaz Sharif, adding that seven planes were “shot down” in the strikes and counter-strikes.

Speaking during an address on October 28 in South Korea ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit,  Trump said that the US is “doing” a new trade deal with India, laying out the background of a claim he has repeated upwards of 50 times now.

“So I’m doing a trade deal with India and I have great respect and love, as you know, for Prime Minister Modi, we have a great relationship. Likewise, the Prime Minister of Pakistan is a great guy. And the field marshal…They have a field marshal. You know why he’s a field marshal? He’s a great fighter. He really is. He’s a great guy too. And so I know them all.”

Trump then narrated what was his version of the events following Operation Sindoor – India’s strikes on terror bases in Pakistan following the terror strike in Kashmir’s Pahalgam that........

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