US President Donald Trump on Wednesday once again sought to claim credit for stopping the military conflict between India and Pakistan earlier this year. He reiterated his claims of intervening in the fight between the two nuclear-armed nations, and added that war planes were shot down during the conflict in May.

He claimed that he personally intervened to stop the two nuclear-armed neighbours from going to war, saying he called Prime Minister Narendra Modi and told him the US would not pursue a trade deal with India if hostilities continued.

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“I called Prime Minister Modi and said, we can’t make a trade deal with you. No, no, we must make a trade deal. I said, no, we can’t. You’re starting a war with Pakistan. We’re not going to do it. And then I called Pakistan and said,

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