Trump urges India Pakistan choose trade over conflict with the United States during the visit to Saudi Arabia as an immediate and full ceasefire between both countries is reached after United States intervention on 10th May 2025.
On 13 May 2025, Tuesday, speaking to an investment forum in Riyadh, he stated that his administration had successfully interceded a historic ceasefire to stop raising violence between both India and Pakistan. “And I used trade to a large extent to do it. I said, Fellas, come on, let’s make a deal. Let’s do some trading; let’s not trade nuclear missiles. Let’s trade the things that you make so beautiful,” Trump stated.
The president of the US praised both countries’ leaders, calling them “very powerful,” “very strong,” ”good,” and “smart,” and expressed optimism that the ceasefire would last longer. The president also appreciated the efforts of Marco Rubio, Secretary of States and said, “ I am very proud of Marco Rubio,” and thanked JD Vance, Vice President, and the whole group for helping reduce the tension between nuclear-armed countries.
Trump stated that he hoped for more improved and friendlier relations between both India and Pakistan and suggested a dinner meeting could help further this progress, aiming to resolve the Kashmir dispute. He also noted the vastness of the crisis that was averted and said that the crisis of conflict started small but got bigger and bigger by day and millions of people could have died if it had not been averted.
Earlier in the day, the president of the US, Donald Trump, also said that his administration served as a key role in avoiding a potential nuclear war between Pakistan and India, attributing the promise of trade as an important factor in decreasing recent enmities. He also posted on a social media platform named Truth Social and described this agreement as “historic and heroic” and stated that both Pakistan and India had shown” strength, wisdom and fortitude” by ending “escalating aggression.”
India and Pakistan Ceasefire After U.S. Intervention
India and Pakistan accepted an immediate and full ceasefire on 10 May 2025, Saturday, after intense days of military exchanges that elevated fear of a full-scale conflict between these nuclear-armed countries.
Trump first made the announcement and later PM Shehbaz Sharif , Deputy PM Ishaq Dar, Indian Extrnal affair minister S Jaishankar and Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed it. The ceasefire follows missile strikes, drone incursions and retaliatory operations across the borders of India and Pakistan.
The conflict first started after a deadly attack in Pahalgam, Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, on 22 April 2025, that took the lives of 25 tourists and 1 local civilian. India blamed Pakistan without provides evidence but Islamabad refused it.
India chose to respond by closing the Wagah Broader canceling Pakistani visas, and suspending the Indus Waters Treaty. Pakistan, in response, labelled it an “act of war.” Following the tension, by May 6th, 2025, India attacks Pakistan, naming it “Operation Sindoor,” in which 51 people, the majority women and children, get killed. Pakistan, in response, on May 9th, 2025, launched Operation “Bunyan-un-Marsoos” and downed 5 Indian jets, including rafales and intercepted 77 Israeli Harop drones.
