“I can tell you that I was in the room when Vice President (JD) Vance spoke to Prime Minister Modi on the night of 9 May,” Foreign Minister S Jaishankar denied the claim of US President Donald Trump, saying that India agreed to ceasefire with Pakistan under US trade pressure. He said, “Trade and ceasefire had no relation.”
In a conversation Newsweek In New York, after launching Operation Sindoor in India’s vengeance for a terrorist attack on April 22 in Jamu and Kashmir, Jaishankar gave a detailed description of a stressful conversation till the ceasefire. Calling the attack “function of economic war”, he said it was designed to destroy the tourism industry of Kashmir and incite communal tension.
Jaishankar said that despite the warnings of Washington about “massive attacks” by Pakistan, India strongly responded and military responded, denied nuclear threats or diplomatic pressure. He said, “We did not accept some things, and the Prime Minister was impregnable for what Pakistanis were being threatened to do,” he said, “On the contrary, he indicated that we would have a response.”
He shared his earlier account of high-level talks during the crisis, saying that at least there was no connection between trade talks and ceasefire from India’s point of view. “I can tell you that I was in the room when the Vice President (JD) Vance spoke to Prime Minister Modi on the night of 9 May,” said Jaishankar. “Trade and ceasefire had no relation.”
The minister said that Pakistan carried out an important attack that night, but India responded rapidly. The next morning, Jaishankar spoke to US State Secretary Marco Rubio, who said that Pakistan was open for talks. Till that afternoon, Pakistan’s DGMO, Major General Kashif Abdullah, requested his Indian counterpart, Lieutenant General Rajiv Gai for a ceasefire.
“So, I can only tell you what happened from my personal experience,” Jaishankar said during a chat Newsweek CEO Dev Pragad.
Referring to the Pahalgam attack on 22 April, in which citizens were asked to reveal their religion before being killed, Jaishankar said that its aim was to “provoke religious violence” and destroy tourism in a major economic column Kashmir. “We are moving forward for a policy of impurities now. We will not accept that terrorists are proxy and somehow, therefore, the state is not guilty. I mean, we think it is very clear that the Pakistani state depends on its eyeball in this one,” he said.
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India launched Operation Sindoor and replied, targeting terrorist bases in Pakistan, used by Resistance Morcha, a group associated with Lashkar-e-Tabiba.
Despite India’s refusal, President Trump Repeated in a press conference last week“I finished with a series of phone calls on business. I said,” Look, if you’re going to fight each other … then we are not doing any business deal. ” He said, “He replied that ‘you have to make a business deal.”
Jishankar dismissed this story. “Diplomacy and business are not interconnected,” he said. “Business people are doing what people are doing-interact with number and lines and products and their business. They are very professional and very concentrated.”
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