“Kaan Kholke Sun Le…": Jaishankar Tells Opposition No Modi‑Trump Calls During India‑Pakistan Standoff

External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday repeated the claim that the US had nothing to do with ceasing hostilities between India and Pakistan in May, telling the Rajya Sabha in response to allegations by the opposition that he made on Monday in the Lok Sabha that during the tensions there had been no phone call between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump.

Jaishankar made the statement during a special debate on Operation Sindoor on Tuesday that came on the heels of Trump repeating the assertion that he was ending the hostilities between India and Pakistan that arose when New Delhi blew up terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan following the Pahalgam attack in which 26 civilians were killed. Trump has kept on repeating the assertion even after the denial of the Indian leadership which has insisted that there is no need of mediation between India and Pakistan.

“I want to make three things clear. One, there was no leader, nobody anywhere in the world, who asked India to stop its operations…Number two, there was no linkage with trade…in any of those conversations. And there was no call between Prime Minister and President Trump,” Jaishankar said, in reference to the fact that Trump was using the threat of trade restriction as the reason to make India and Pakistan stop their hostilities.

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The opposition repeatedly interrupted Jaishankar and referred to the claims of Trump that the US president had lied. He reacted to one such heckling by a senior Congress leader, Jairam Ramesh, and in Hindi, he said: “I want to tell Jairam Ramesh to open his ears and listen to this – from April 22 to June 16, there wasn’t even one phone call between President Trump and Prime Minister Modi.”

Trump had had a phone call to Modi after the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22 and the next time they spoke was on June 17 when they could not meet at the margins of the G7 Summit in Canada. “They [India] ended the war with Pakistan at my request, and it was great. And Pakistan did also. We did a lot of great settlements, including the recent one with Cambodia,” he said.

When talking to reporters on board Air Force One on Tuesday, Trump had used recent hostilities between India-Pakistan as one of about five examples of hostilities around the globe that he had ended.

Jaishankar said that India had conveyed the same message to all the world leaders who had phoned New Delhi in the backdrop of hostilities with Pakistan that India was retaliating the right to protect itself, the targets that were struck on May 7 were recognized terrorist headquarters and infrastructures and infrastructure and mediation was not the case because it would all be dealt with bilaterally by India and Pakistan.

He said when US Vice President JD Vance called Modi on May 9 to “warn him that there was, in the American assessment, a massive Pakistani attack which would come in the next few hours”, Modi said India would mount a “fitting and appropriate response” in case of any such attack. When Pakistan attacked a few hours later, India’s response “disabled the entire Pakistani air defence system and rendered all their main airfields inoperative”, Jaishankar said.

World capitals then sounded the message that the Pakistanis are willing to cease fighting and India retorted to the effect that Pakistan must come forward with a formal request using the existing facility of the communications between Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) he said.

“So it was on May 10, we got calls from the US, Saudi Arabia [and] a few other countries. The point is... to everybody, the answer was the same. The answer was if the Pakistanis want to stop fighting, the Pakistanis have to request us…through the DGMOs channel, and that’s exactly what happened,” he said.

Jaishankar did not deny that the differences between India and the US existed long, and that New Delhi was never shy to overcome those differences with Washington. “We have had a different view, a different policy [and] different interests, and it has been a problem between India and the US,” he said. “I have been in the room when America was taking up the case of [former dictator] Gen [Pervez] Musharraf and asking for concessions on Kashmir…On this issue, we have a national policy. No mediation is a national policy. Bilateral dealing is a national policy.”

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The Indian side has never been afraid to carry difficult matters such as deportation, visas and students to the table with the US and is currently in negotiations of a bilateral trade agreement with the US due to the fact that “we have national interest at heart” he said.

In reply to the criticism by opposition of the government in dealing with the Pahalgam attack and further on its Pakistan policy, Jaishankar brought forth their decisions by earlier Congress regimes since the management of the issue of Pakistan occupied Kashmir in 1948, terror attacks by Pakistan based groups including 2008 Mumbai attacks and the meeting of Indian and Pakistani PMs in 2009, that came up with a joint statement with the mention of the situation in Balochistan.

He said the House should recognise that Operation Sindoor has “become the basis for a new policy” for combating cross-border terrorism. “That basis is what I call the new normal, the Modi normal, it is something which has been communicated very clearly to Pakistan and the world,” he said.

Since a period when it was state that the former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru could never be corrected on his mistakes, the present government has resolved to leave the Indus Waters Treaty in suspension due to the fact that Pakistan had gone against the preamble in the pact which talks of spirit of goodwill and friendship.

“The Narendra Modi government shows it can be corrected. Article 370 was corrected and the Indus Waters Treaty is being corrected. It will be held in abeyance until Pakistan irrevocably gives up its support of terrorism,” he said. “We had warned that blood and water cannot flow together. Today, we are demonstrating that what we say, we will do – blood and water will not flow together.”

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