US President Donald Trump has once again repeated his claim that he brokered a ceasefire deal between India and Pakistan through “trade talks.” “And by the way, I don’t want to say I did, but I sure as hell helped settle the problem between Pakistan and India last week, which was getting more and more hostile,” Trump said while addressing US military personnel at the al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar.”And all of a sudden, you’ll start seeing missiles of a different type. And we got it settled. I hope, I hope I don’t walk out of here and two days later find out that it’s not settled, but I think it is settled,” he said. Repeating his claim that the US used trade as leverage to broker peace between the two countries, Trump said, referring to talks with India and Pakistan, “Let’s do trade instead of war. And Pakistan was very happy with that, and India was very happy with that, and I think they’re on the way, you know, they have been fighting for about 1,000 years in all fairness.” “So I said, you know, I could settle that up. I can settle anything. Let me set it up. Let’s get them all together. How long have you been fighting? About 1,000 years. Oh, that’s a lot. I’m not sure about that. I’m not sure about settling. That’s a tough one. They’ve been fighting for a long time, but we got that settled. Nobody, boy, everybody was very happy. I’ll tell you that looked like it was really going to be escalating out of control,” he added.The US President was the first to announce a ceasefire deal between India and Pakistan on May 10, even before any official statement from the two countries, sparking a wave of criticism from the opposition parties in India. A day later, Trump claimed that India and Pakistan agreed to the ceasefire after US brought up trade during the negotiations.
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