Jaishankar claims that pressure from the US and Pakistan’s threat led India to agree to a ceasefire.

In a shocking admission, Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar acknowledged that India consented to a ceasefire in May because of the direct American intervention and the immediate threat of a significant military response from Pakistan.

Jaishankar revealed in a Newsweek interview that US Vice President JD Vance personally called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the evening of May 9 to urge India to accept the ceasefire in order to avoid Pakistan’s full-scale retaliation.

I was present when US Vice President JD Vance called Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the evening of May 9. Jaishankar acknowledged for the first time that US diplomatic pressure had influenced the decision to halt Indian military operations, saying, “He told us that if we did not agree to certain terms, Pakistan would launch a major assault on India.”

The Indian foreign minister claimed that Prime Minister Modi had indicated that India was prepared to react. “Pakistan launched a massive attack that evening. We struck back right away.

He also mentioned that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called him the next morning to let him know that Pakistan was prepared to engage in talks.

Furthermore, Jaishankar has once again charged Pakistan with being involved in terrorist attacks, such as the April attack in Pahalgam that claimed lives.

Jaishankar called the attack in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22 a “critical moment” for India in an interview given while he was in the US for a meeting of the Quad foreign ministers. “The Pahalgam attack was a turning point, and there is a growing sentiment in India that enough is enough,” he said.

“We decided that we cannot allow terrorists to operate freely,” he continued. We had to challenge the notion that terrorists can operate across the border and get away with it, and we succeeded in doing just that.

Pakistan disputes any involvement.
Any involvement in the Pahalgam attack, in which 26 people were killed by unidentified gunmen, has been categorically denied by Pakistan. But after that, tensions quickly increased.

In retaliation for the Pahalgam incident, India began attacking inside Pakistan on May 7. The two nuclear-armed neighbors then launched a string of missile and drone attacks in response. Three days later, on May 10, the United States successfully mediated an end to the fighting.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other Pakistani officials have indirectly acknowledged that US President Donald Trump was the one who mediated the ceasefire.

“We want to make it absolutely clear — there will be no freedom for terrorists to operate,” Jaishankar told Newsweek, restating India’s position. We will no longer put up with proxy wars.

“We will not let nuclear blackmail stop us from protecting ourselves,” he continued. We’ve heard for years that India needs to exercise restraint because both sides have nuclear weapons; that argument is over.

The Indian minister issued a warning, saying, “If something bad happens to us, we will cross the border and target those who harm us.”