Trump Revises India-Pakistan War Claim, Now Says 8 Planes Shot Down Before Peace Deal

“India and Pakistan, eight planes were shot down. It was seven but now it is eight because the one that was sort of shot down is now abandoned,” Trump said while talking to reporters at the White House, adding that he ended five or six wars, out of eight, because of tariffs.

“If you look at India and Pakistan, they were about to fight, two nuclear nations. Eight planes were shot down. And I said, 'If you guys are going to fight, I am going to put tariffs on you.' They were not happy, and within 24 hours, I settled the war. Without tariffs, I wouldn't have been able to do that,” Trump said.

Trump has been claiming repeatedly that his intervention stopped the two nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours from going into a war in May this year, though India continues to rule out any third-party intervention in the truce.