<p>Donald Trump has repeated his claim about brokering the May 10 India-Pakistan ceasefire – claims New Delhi has repeatedly denied, insisting it was Islamabad that asked for a reprieve – and lavished praised on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the “the nicest-looking guy” as he did so.</p>
<p>In South Korea for the last leg of his Asia tour, the United States President segued from talking about the long-delayed India-US trade deal, which he indicated will be signed soon, into a ramble on Operation Sindoor, India’s military response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack.</p>
<p>And, as he has so often in the past five months, Trump claimed not only to have negotiated the ceasefire, but stopped an India-Pak ‘nuclear war’ by refusing to sign trade deals with either side.</p>
<p>”These are two nuclear nations… and they were really going at it. So, I called Prime Minister Modi and said, ‘we can’t make a trade deal with you… we can’t. You’re starting a war with Pakistan’.””Prime Minister Modi is the nicest-looking guy (but) he is tough as hell. But after literally two days, they (India and Pak) called me up and said, ‘we understand’. And they stopped fighting.”</p>