NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump has said that India and Pakistan “made peace” in May after he threatened the two nuclear-armed neighbours to snap trade deals with them if they continued their military conflict, a claim he has repeated several times since then.

“In eight months I ended eight wars, including Kosovo and Serbia, and Congo and Rwanda, that were going on for a long time… Pakistan and India,” Trump said in his address at the America Business Forum in Miami on Wednesday.

“You know, I was in the midst of a trade deal with both of them (India and Pakistan), and then I read on the front page of a certain newspaper… I heard they were going to war. Seven planes were shot down, and the eighth was really badly wounded… Eight planes were shot down essentially,” Trump said.

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