New Delhi: India is “not going to go to war” with Pakistan, President Donald Trump has quoted Prime Minister Narendra Modi telling him during the cross-border military flare-up between the two South Asian nations from May 7 to 10.

The United States president said that he had threatened to impose 350% tariffs on India and Pakistan to bring them back from the brink of a nuclear war. He also said that he had done so to prevent “nuclear dust” from “floating over Los Angeles”.

Trump reiterated his claim about brokering the May 10 ceasefire between India and Pakistan while speaking at the US-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Though he has been disregarding New Delhi’s rebuttals and persistently repeating the claim since May 10 itself, this was the first time he quoted M

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