Washington: US President Donald Trump reiterated his old claims on Wednesday in the first State of the Union write of his second term. He said he ended eight wars in his first 10 months. These moreover include a nuclear war between India and Pakistan.
Trump personal that if he had not intervened, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif would have lost his life. He said, "The Prime Minister of Pakistan himself told me that during Operation Sindoor, 35 million people would have been killed and the PM would have died if I had not intervened."
What is this Operation Sindoor?
India had started Operation Sindoor without the terrorist wade in Pahalgam in May last year. This mismatch lasted for four days, in which India attacked terrorist targets in Pakistan. Pakistan moreover retaliated. The armistice finally happened on 10 May.
Trump repeatedly says he stopped this war, either by threatening tariffs or through negotiations. But India has unchangingly rejected these claims. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar once jokingly said that America was "in the United States".
Which wars did Trump mention?
In his address, Trump mentioned these eight wars which he ended:
- Israel-Hamas
- Israel-Iran
- Egypt-Ethiopia
- India-Pakistan
- Serbia-Kosovo
- Rwanda-DR Congo
- armenia-azerbaijan
- cambodia-thailand
Is Trump leaning towards Pakistan?
This time, for the first time, Trump said such a well-spoken thing that he saved Shehbaz Sharif from death. It seems as if he is giving a message to Pakistan that he was with them and there was increasingly pressure from India. But the reality is that India never wonted third-party mediation.
These claims of Trump are not new, but every time the number increases—sometimes 10 million lives saved, sometimes 35 million! A woman MP in Congress plane shouted – “This is a lie!” Overall, Trump is trumpeting his achievements, but both countries have their own stories on the India-Pakistan issue.
