Modi rejects Trump's offer to mediate between India and Pakistan

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has firmly rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated offer to mediate between India and Pakistan, according to Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri.

The clarification came after Modi held a telephone conversation with President Trump on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Canada, where he discussed recent developments including India's Operation Sindoor.

'Prime Minister Modi made it clear to President Trump that India has never accepted mediation, does not accept it, and will never accept it,' Misri stated, refuting Trump's earlier claims of brokering a ceasefire.

Modi reportedly told Trump that the recent India-Pakistan conflict was de-escalated solely through existing military communication channels between the two countries, and no role was played by the United States. He also clarified that discussions around a U.S.-India trade deal were unrelated to the conflict.

This comes after President Trump, in a separate media briefing at the White House, claimed he had stopped a war between the nuclear-armed neighbors using trade leverage. Trump suggested that Pakistan was preparing a counterstrike and implied that his intervention prevented a possible nuclear escalation.

'I stopped a war between India and Pakistan. And I stopped it with trade. I don't think I've ever seen a story written about it, but it was pretty cool,' Trump said. He also offered once again to mediate on the Kashmir issue, describing it as a '2,000-year-old conflict.'

Despite Trump's repeated public statements, India has consistently rejected third-party mediation in its bilateral issues with Pakistan, maintaining that such matters must be resolved through direct dialogue.

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