No PM Modi-Trump call between Apr 22–Jun 17: Jaishankar rejects mediation claim

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday asserted that at no stage in any conversation with the US was there any linkage of trade with Operation Sindoor and the request for halting the military action came from the Pakistani side through the DGMO channel.

Jaishankar pointed out that The Resistance Front (TRF) group had been designated as a global terror organisation by the US due to Indian diplomacy. “On May 10, we received phone calls sharing the impression of other countries that Pakistan was ready to cease the fighting.

Our position was that if Pakistan was ready, we needed to get this as a request from the Pakistani side through the DGMO channel. That is exactly how that request came,” Jaishankar said.