New Delhi - Pakistan did not resort to nuclear signalling following Indian attack and the conflict between India and its neighbour was restricted to conventional domain, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri told a Parliamentary panel on Monday.
India’s Foreign Secretary told lawmakers that there was no indication that Pakistan intended to launch a nuclear strike. According to lawmakers present at the briefing, Misri made it clear that the tensions remained in the domain of conventional attacks , and that the ceasefire re-quest had originated from Islamabad.
Vikram Misri, addressing members of the Indian Parliament’s Standing Committee on External Affairs, said the United States played no role in the ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan following this month’s military hostilities, rejecting US President Donald Trump’s re-peated claims of brokering peace and preventing a nuclear conflict.
India launched Operation Sindoor in the early hours of May 7, carrying out precision strikes on terror infrastructure in Pakistan in response to the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam that left 26 people dead. In retaliation, Pakistan attempted to target Indian military positions over the next three days. Indian forces responded with heavy counter-attacks on multiple Pakistani mili-tary sites before a ceasefire was declared on May 10.
Misri told the committee that Pakistan’s Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) had reached out directly to his Indian counterpart to request a ceasefire. The foreign secretary em-phasised there was “no American intervention” during the hostilities or the de-escalation pro-cess.
When asked whether New Delhi had any influence over Trump’s involvement in India-Pakistan matters or its diplomatic statements, Misri quipped, “He certainly isn’t seeking my approval,” according to a report by News18.
Trump had claimed on his social media platform Truth Social that the United States had medi-ated a long night of talks between India and Pakistan, resulting in a full and immediate cease-fire. He also said his administration had helped prevent a nuclear conflict between the two countries, calling it a diplomatic breakthrough.
India, however, issued a six-point rebuttal to Trump’s assertions. The Ministry of External Af-fairs said that the ceasefire agreement was the outcome of a direct military-to-military conver-sation between the two DGMOs, without involvement from any third party.
India has consistently maintained that its operations were targeted, conventional responses to cross-border terrorism, and that the ceasefire came after Islamabad sought de-escalation.
