US says India-Pakistan ceasefire is bilateral as Trump touts credit

The United States is publicly maintaining daily vigilance over the India-Pakistan ceasefire, even as President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed personal credit for ending the long-running confrontation between the two nuclear-armed neighbors. Washington says the cessation of hostilities, reached after bilateral talks between New Delhi and Islamabad, is being managed by the two countries without foreign mediation, and officials emphasize that any durable peace must be anchored in bilateral arrangements rather than external pressure. At the same time, Indian leaders have reiterated that no foreign power influenced their military decisions and that trade considerations were not linked to the halt in fighting.

Trump has asserted, since May, that his administration helped secure a full and immediate ceasefire between India and Pakistan and has repeatedly tied the possibility of broader trade to the maintenance of peace. He has framed the intervention as a personal diplomatic achievement, describing the episode as a near-nuclear crisis averted through U.S. engagement. In remarks made amid a high-profile summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Trump described his approach as using the...