TRUMP’S CLAIMS DISMISSED
Trump has repeatedly said he was responsible for brokering peace between the two countries, including most recently on Monday.
“If I weren’t around, you’d have, right now, six major wars going on. India would be fighting with Pakistan,” Trump said during a visit to Scotland.
Modi’s comments came after Rahul Gandhi from the opposition Congress party challenged him to state in parliament that Trump was “lying”.
Earlier on Tuesday, Home Minister Amit Shah told lawmakers that three Pakistani gunmen involved in the April attack in Indian-administered Kashmir were killed during a military operation on Monday.
Shah said all three were Pakistani nationals and identified two of them as members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a UN-designated terrorist group based in Pakistan.
ONGOING TENSIONS IN KASHMIR
Muslim-majority Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since independence from British rule in 1947, with both nations claiming the region in full. They have fought two wars and several skirmishes over its control.
The May fighting pushed the neighbours close to another war before Trump announced a ceasefire. The opposition has since questioned whether there was third-party mediation, a claim New Delhi has consistently denied.
