India-Pakistan Ties: Did Modi Outmanoeuvre Trump On Munir Assembly?

India-Pakistan Ties: Did Modi Outmanoeuvre Trump On Munir Assembly?

Pakistani Military Chief Asim Munir is on a go to to the US the place President Donald Trump might be internet hosting him for lunch. Whereas Pakistan sees this as a diplomatic victory, India has already made issues clear to the US, highlighting that no third-party mediation might be accepted between India and Pakistan. Notably, after coming back from the G7 summit in Canada, Trump tried to ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the US for a quick stopover, on the identical time when Munir can be on the White Home. 

Did Trump simply attempt to arrange an sudden India-Pakistan assembly on the White Home in order to affirm his declare that he brokered peace between the 2 warring nations? Social media customers had been fast to identify this diplomatic anomaly by Trump. If that’s the case, PM Modi seems to have seen via Trump’s entice and never solely refused the invite but additionally clarified India’s coverage on Pakistan. 

Prime Minister Modi and US President Trump held a half-an-hour lengthy telephonic dialog on Wednesday the place the US President invited PM Modi to cease over within the US. Nevertheless, as a result of prior engagements, PM Modi needed to decline the supply. 

Not solely this, PM Modi additionally informed Trump and cessation of hostilities between India and Pakistan was on Islamabad’s request and no third celebration performed any position on this. “PM Modi informed President Trump clearly that in this complete sequence of incidents, by no means had been talks held at any degree on India-America commerce deal and mediation between India and Pakistan by America. The talks relating to cessation of navy motion had been held straight between India and Pakistan beneath the present channels established between each militaries, it was finished at Pakistan’s request,” stated International Secretary Vikram Misri, detailing the dialog between the 2 leaders.

Through the dialog, which lasted over half an hour, PM Modi briefed the US President about India’s Operation Sindoor and firmly conveyed the message that India has by no means accepted and can by no means settle for mediation on the problems with Pakistan, International Secretary Vikram Misri knowledgeable on Wednesday.

Misri added, “Prime Minister Modi harassed that India has by no means accepted mediation, doesn’t settle for it, and can by no means settle for it. There’s full political unanimity in India on this problem.”

The remarks come after the US President had again and again claimed that he had used commerce as a method for the cessation of hostilities between India and Pakistan. 

International Secretary Misri stated, “The assembly between Prime Minister Modi and President Trump was scheduled to happen on the sidelines of the G7 summit. President Trump needed to return to the US early, as a result of which this assembly couldn’t happen. After this, on the request of President Trump, the 2 leaders spoke on the cellphone in the present day.”

Notably, PM Modi informed the US President that India now not views terrorism as a proxy conflict, and India’s Operation Sindoor remains to be ongoing.

The cessation of hostilities between India and Pakistan got here on Could 10 after India’s ‘Operation Sindoor’, launched in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam terror assault that killed 26 civilians.

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