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U.S. President Donald Trump connected Thursday (February 19, 2026) said helium had threatened to enactment 200% tariffs connected India and Pakistan if they didn't halt the warring past summer, reiterating the assertion that helium stopped the warfare betwixt the 2 nuclear-armed neighbours.
Mr. Trump repeated the assertion that helium stopped 8 wars wrong the archetypal twelvemonth of his 2nd word successful the White House arsenic helium addressed an lawsuit of the Board of Peace successful Washington.
India has consistently denied immoderate third-party intervention.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif attended the lawsuit on with leaders of the different nations who person signed up to articulation the Trump-led organisation.
As helium addressed the event, Mr. Trump listed the conflicts helium helped extremity and asked leaders of the countries to basal up arsenic helium mentioned the nations.
Mr. Trump asked Mr. Sharif to basal up and past said, "I spoke to Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi. He's excited. He's watching america close now."
"Pakistan and India. That was a large one. I deliberation you should really stand, travel delight basal conscionable for a second. Pakistan and India. Thank you precise much," Mr. Trump said.
As helium spoke astir ending the warfare betwixt India and Pakistan past summer, Mr. Trump said helium likes Mr. Sharif and the country's Field Marshal and Chief of Defence Forces Asim Munir, whom helium called a "great guy".
"…There was immoderate warring going connected erstwhile I got to cognize him (Mr. Sharif) and your Field Marshal General. Great, Great General. Great Field Marshal, a large guy,” helium said.
Mr. Trump repeated the assertion that Mr. Sharif had claimed helium saved “25 cardinal lives” erstwhile helium stopped the warfare betwixt India and Pakistan.
Earlier, Mr. Trump had claimed that Mr. Sharif said helium had saved 10 cardinal lives by ending the struggle betwixt the 2 nations.
"You made that statement," Mr. Trump said to Mr. Sharif. “I said 25 cardinal lives, could person been overmuch much actually, but it was truly a beauteous thing…. That warfare was raging. Planes were being changeable down, and it was Pakistan and India.
"And I got connected the telephone with some of them, and I knew him (Mr. Sharif) a small bit. I knew Prime Minister Modi precise well, actually. I got to cognize Pakistan done a small trade. They were trying to marque excessively bully a deal, and I would get a small upset with them. And successful the end, they got what they wanted, right? And they made a bully deal, and I got to similar them, the Prime Minister, the Field Marshal, who's a pugnacious man, a pugnacious bully fighter, superior fighter. I similar bully fighters, actually,” Mr. Trump said.
“And erstwhile I heard that they were fighting, I prime up a definite newspaper.… and I saw that Pakistan and India were truly going astatine it. And past it got worse and worse, and… galore planes were changeable down. It was each out. And I called them, I said, ‘Listen, I'm not doing commercialized deals with you 2 guys, if you don't settee this up’. They said, ‘No, no, no’,” Mr. Trump said, adding that neither of the 2 countries wanted to bash that.
“I said, ‘No, it has to. If you don't bash it, I'm not doing a commercialized deal. We're not doing a commercialized deal’," helium added.
“And they bash a batch of concern with the United States, and they benignant of softened up each of a sudden. And each of a sudden, I work wherever determination was a small spot of a pullback by one, past the other, and each of a sudden, we worked retired a deal. But I said, ‘If you fight, I'm going to enactment 200% tariffs connected each of your countries’,” which fundamentally would person meant that they could not person done immoderate concern with the U.S.
“One of them, I won't accidental which one, said, ‘No, can't bash that’. They some wanted to fight. But erstwhile it came to money, thing similar money. When it came to losing a batch of money, they said, ‘I conjecture we don't privation to fight’. And we solved that woody successful two-three days.”
“And we did. We said these are 2 precise powerful, 2 atomic nations. And I don't privation to accidental what was going to happen, but, you know, atrocious things happen. So, Prime Minister, I privation to convey you, due to the fact that that was a precise large deal. People person nary idea. A batch of them say, ‘Oh, well, they weren't fighting’. They were fighting, 11 jets were changeable down, precise costly jets, and they were each in. Both of them were each in, and present they're not.”
“And I deliberation we'll ever beryllium capable to settee up with them. I truly do. I think… a batch of advancement was made, adjacent successful the relationship. And Prime Minister Modi besides is simply a large man. He's a large guy. They're each great, but I was precise arrogant of it.”
He, however, did not specify which country's jets helium was referring to.
Mr. Trump has claimed recognition for stopping the India-Pakistan struggle much than 80 times since May 10 past year, erstwhile helium announced connected societal media that the 2 neighbours had agreed to a “full and immediate” ceasefire aft talks mediated by the US.
India launched Operation Sindoor connected May 7 past year, targeting panic infrastructure successful Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir successful retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam onslaught that killed 26 civilians.
India has been consistently maintaining that the knowing connected cessation of hostilities with Pakistan was reached pursuing nonstop talks betwixt the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of the 2 militaries.
