Pakistan has said India did not agree to third-party mediation during hostilities between the South Asian neighbours in May, thus vindicating the stand of PM Narendra Modi's government that US President Donald Trump's claims of brokering a ceasefire amid Operation Sindoor in May are incorrect.Pakistan's deputy prime minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar said on Tuesday in an interview with Al Jazeera that Islamabad raised the issue of third-party mediation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to which the US official responded that India does not support outside involvement."Incidentally, when the ceasefire offer came through Secretary Rubio to me on the 10th of May…
I was told that there would be a dialogue between Pakistan and India at an independent place…
When we met on the 25th of July during a bilateral meeting with Secretary Rubio in Washington, I asked him 'What happened to those dialogues?', he said, ‘India says that it is a bilateral issue’," Dar said.While Trump has repeated his claim over two dozen times, India has categorically denied that the Americans mediated to bring about a ceasefire.
This sovereign stand was reported to be a factor behind Trump's aggressive trade tariffs on India, but that matter has since cooled as the US resumed talks after PM Narendra Modi's eastward move to underline a friendship with Russia and effect…
Published: September 16, 2025 5:08 pm
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