"There was no linkage with trade in any of those conversations and there was no call between PM Modi and (U.S.) President Trump."

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar Speaks on Operation Sindoor During Debate in Rajya Sabha

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar Speaks on Operation Sindoor Debate Latest News: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Wednesday, 30 July 2025, spoke during the debate on Operation Sindoor in the Rajya Sabha. He said there was no communication between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the U.S. President between April 22 and June 16.

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar began by lauding the performance of the Indian Armed Forces. He then, while talking about the Pahalgam terror attack, said that the intention of the attack was to destroy the economy of Jammu and Kashmir, which he said, “had returned to normalcy and prosperity after the end of Article 370.”

Minister said there were two answers to such an attack on people, referring to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that killed 25 Indian civilians and a Nepali national.

 “It (Pahalgam terror attack) angered the country, there was grief, there was shock, across the world there was solidarity, and there was sympathy. But the question was what after that and the answers were two. One: such an attack was absolutely unacceptable, it crossed red lines, there had to be severe consequences. Two: there had to be accountability and justice. There had to be accountability of perpetrators and they and their supporters had to be brought to justice," Minister said.

Responding to Congress MP Jairam Ramesh's query about whether U.S. President Donald Trump is lying about mediating an India-Pakistan ceasefire, EAM S. Jaishankar said, "I want MP Jairam Ramesh to listen carefully that between April 22 to June 16, there was not even a single phone call between US President Donald Trump and PM Modi."

He repeated what PM Modi said while speaking during the debate yesterday in the lower house. The EAM said that on May 9, (U.S.) Vice President Vance called up the Prime Minister “to warn him that there was, in the American assessment, a massive Pakistani attack which would come in the next few hours. The Prime Minister listened and made it very clear that if anything like that happens, it would get a fitting and appropriate response.”

He added that after India’s “fitting and appropriate response” to Pakistan’s warning, India received calls saying Pakistanis were ready to stop the fighting.

He said, “A few hours later that happened and then the fitting and appropriate also happened. That fitting and appropriate response disabled the entire Pakistani air defence system and rendered all their main airfields inoperative. At this stage, we started getting calls that we think that Pakistanis are ready to stop fighting. The response which we gave to anybody who spoke to us was that the Pakistani side has to make a request, and that request has to come through the DGMO.”

Refuting Trump’s claims indirectly, he added, “There was no leader, nobody anywhere in the world who asked India to stop its operations. There was no linkage with trade in any of those conversations and there was no call between PM Modi and (U.S.) President Trump."

To those questioning the success of Operation Sindoor, he said, “Anybody who wants to judge the success of 'Operation Sindoor', please go and look at the funeral videos of Pakistan and look at the Pakistani airfields, and you will see how successful this operation was. We all know that Bahawalpur and Muridke are the biggest terrorist centres directed against India. Today, both these centres have been reduced to dust."

EAM S. Jaishankar also thanked multi-party parliamentary delegations that visited various countries.

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