Trump Again Claims He Stopped India-Pakistan War From Going Nuclear While Pushing New Arms Treaty

Last Updated:February 06, 2026, 02:03 IST

India has consistently rejected Trump’s assertion that Washington helped defuse 2025 conflict with Pakistan following Operation Sindoor.

US President Donald Trump has once again claimed that he personally prevented a nuclear war between India and Pakistan, even as he pushed for a new global arms control treaty following the expiry of the last major nuclear agreement between Washington and Moscow.

In a post on Truth Social on Thursday, Trump asserted that he had stopped several international conflicts from escalating into nuclear confrontations.

“I have stopped Nuclear Wars from breaking out across the World between Pakistan and India, Iran and Israel, and Russia and Ukraine," Trump wrote while arguing against extending the expired New START treaty with Russia.

Trump’s remarks came hours after the 2010 New START treaty, which imposed the last major restrictions on US and Russian nuclear arsenals, formally lapsed. Calling the agreement “badly negotiated" and “grossly violated," he urged that a new and more modern treaty be drafted instead.

“Rather than extend NEW START, we should have our Nuclear Experts work on a new, improved, and modernized Treaty that can last long into the future," Trump said.

India’s Stand Contradicts Trump’s Claim

India’s official military record, however, directly contradicts Trump’s repeated assertion that Washington played any role in de-escalating tensions with Pakistan.

According to the Defence Ministry, it was Pakistan that reached out to India seeking a halt to hostilities after suffering heavy losses, and not as a result of any international pressure or mediation.

On May 10, 2025, after India carried out precision strikes on terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir under Operation Sindoor, Pakistan’s Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) contacted his Indian counterpart and appealed for a cessation of military operations.

Formal DGMO-level talks were subsequently held on May 12, after which both sides agreed to stop military action.

Indian officials have consistently maintained that the crisis was resolved bilaterally and militarily, with no foreign intervention. New Delhi has long rejected any third-party mediation in India-Pakistan disputes.

A Claim Trump Has Repeatedly Made

Trump’s latest post is not the first time he has made such a claim.

He repeated the assertion in 2026 at the World Economic Forum in Davos and again during a White House press briefing marking one year of his second term, where he said he had stopped multiple wars, including between India and Pakistan. Trump has been making this claim consistently since June 2025, soon after the conflict ended.

Trump has also claimed that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told him during a meeting at the White House that the US president had saved “tens of millions of lives." That claim has never been acknowledged or confirmed by the Indian government.

India has repeatedly pushed back against Trump’s narrative.

Addressing the Lok Sabha in July last year during a special discussion on Operation Sindoor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said no world leader had asked India to stop the military operation, dismissing opposition allegations that New Delhi had acted under US pressure.

PM Modi told Parliament that it was Pakistan that pleaded with India to halt military action, saying Islamabad could not “suffer any longer." He added that India had clearly conveyed to the US Vice President at the time that if Pakistan carried out any attack, India would respond with a major strike.

Global Nuclear Concerns Grow

Trump’s renewed claim came against the backdrop of growing global concern over the end of New START. Campaigners have warned that the expiry of the treaty could trigger a fresh nuclear arms race.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the moment as “grave," saying the risk of nuclear weapons being used is now the highest in decades.

Despite the stalemate on arms control, Trump has recently restarted diplomatic engagement with Moscow and called for a broader nuclear pact that would also include China — a proposal Beijing has already rejected.

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