Trump again claimed India and Pakistan 'made peace' after his threat to halt trade

US President Donald Trump has said that India and Pakistan “made peace” in May after he threatened the two nuclear-armed neighbours to snap trade deals with them if they continued their military conflict, a claim he has repeated several times since then.

“In eight months I ended eight wars, including Kosovo and Serbia, and Congo and Rwanda, that were going on for a long time.

Pakistan and India,” Trump said in his address at the America Business Forum in Miami on



Wednesday.

“You know, I was in the midst of a trade deal with both of them (India and Pakistan), and then I read on the front page of a certain newspaper… I heard they were going to war. Seven planes were shot down, and the eighth was really badly wounded… Eight planes were shot down essentially,” Trump said.

He added, “I said, this is war, and they are going at it. And they are two nuclear nations. I said, ‘I’m not going to make any trade deals with you guys unless you agree to peace’.