Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on Tuesday not only specifically dismissed all claims made by President Donald Trump and his administration about the United States brokering a ‘ceasefire’ between India and Pakistan and pre-empting a nuclear..conflict, but also categorically rejected his offer to mediate on the issue of Kashmir.

To dismiss Trump’s repeated claims about avoiding a nuclear war in South Asia, India underlined that all military actions launched by its armed forces in response to the escalatory offensives by Pakistan were in the domain of ‘conventional’ warfare. .The Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi even cited Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar’s statement during a TV interview that Islamabad had never considered using the option of using its nuclear weapons in response to the military offensives …against India.

New Delhi also dismissed Trump’s claim that the US had made the two South Asian nations agree on a ‘ceasefire’ by using the threat of stopping trade with both India and Pakistan.