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Informist, Tuesday, May 13, 2025

NEW DELHI – The Congress party on Tuesday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's silence on US President Donald Trump's offer to help settle the decades-old Kashmir issue between India and Pakistan. The Congress party also asked how the pause in military action between India and Pakistan was reached and whether Trump had played a role in this.

The US president on Saturday announced India and Pakistan had agreed to a full ceasefire and took credit for brokering it. Trump shared the development on social media platform Truth Social before the Indian government could make a formal announcement.

Addressing the media at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi, former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot said that in his address to the nation on Monday, the prime minister spoke of many things, including the country's future policy on terrorism, in the aftermath of Operation Sindoor. All that the prime minister said was good, Gehlot said, asking why hadn't he clarified on the US president's claims of brokering a ceasefire between India and Pakistan and on settling the Kashmir issue.

"...the entire country could not understand that how this ceasefire was reached. Why is India listening to Trump suddenly? Has the govt's silence encouraged Trump? It is dangerous to know that Trump is saying that he can help on settling Kashmir. My complaint from the prime minister is that he did not say anything on this," Gehlot said. He added that India had never bowed to foreign pressure in the past and cited the 1971 India-Pakistan war when, he said, the US tried to put immense pressure on then prime minister Indira Gandhi to stop the war.

On Monday, the US president said his administration had not just stopped the military action between India and Pakistan but also averted a major nuclear conflict and saved millions of lives. "I said [to the Indian and Pakistani leadership], let's stop it. If you stop it, we're doing trade. If you don't stop it we're not going to do any trade," Trump told reporters.

India on Wednesday launched Operation Sindoor in retaliation for the terrorist attack in South Kashmir's Pahalgam last month. Indian armed forces struck terrorist camps at nine locations in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, and claimed to have killed over 100 terrorists.

Following the strikes by India, Pakistan resorted to artillery shelling along the Line of Control in Jammu & Kashmir and also launched drone attacks at multiple civilian as well as military locations in Gujarat, Punjab, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir. After over three days of hostilities in which Pakistan army reportedly lost over 30 personnel and the Indian Army lost five soldiers, both countries arrived at an understanding to stop firing and military action on Saturday. However, Pakistani drones were spotted at multiple locations in Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab despite Islamabad agreeing to stop firing.  End

Reported by Kuldeep Singh

Edited by Avishek Dutta

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