External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has squashed any speculation US President Donald Trump played a role in negotiating an India-Pakistan ceasefire to end Operation Sindoor.

“There was no call between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Trump between April 22 (the Pahalgam terror attack) and June 17 (the date the ceasefire was announced),” Mr Jaishankar said Monday evening during a volatile Parliament discussion on Pahalgam and Op Sindoor.

The remarks follow repeated Mr Trump claiming he coaxed Delhi and Islamabad into stopping a conflict that escalated after missile strikes on terrorist bases in Pak and Pak-occupied Kashmir.

India has firmly, and repeatedly, shot down Trump’s claims, and also rebuffed his offer to ‘mediate’ a settlement to Pakistan’s continued illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir.

India has also dismissed Trump’s heavy-handed linking of the India-US trade deal and the ceasefire; the US leader, during one of his credit grabs, said he told Mr Modi and Pak officials ‘fellas, let’s not trade nuclear missiles… let’s trade the things you make so beautifully’.

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He also claimed once to have “sure as hell helped settle the India-Pak problem”.

Mr Jaishankar’s remarks today echo those he made on July 1, when he revealed he was with Mr Modi when US Vice President JD Vance spoke to him on the phone. Then too there had been no talk linking trade and ceasefire as far as India was concerned, the Foreign Minister said.

On July 1 Mr Jaishankar told an American publication that Mr Modi spoke to Mr Vance on the night of May 9 to warn him of “a very massive assault on India” by Pakistan.

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The next contact, he said, was shortly before Pakistan’s military called to ask for peace.

Mr Jaishankar said that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told him ‘the Pakistanis are ready to talk’. And, hours later, Pak’s Director-General of Military Operations reached out to India.

The emphatic delinking of US and the India-Pak ceasefire is in response to repeated jabs by the opposition, mainly the Congress, which had criticised the government for allowing a foreign power to dictate foreign policy, and said India’s diplomatic power had been “shattered”.

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Meanwhile, during his speech – interrupted by the opposition on more than one occasion, which provoked Home Minister Amit Shah to rise to his colleague’s defence – Mr Jaishankar said India would not tolerate terrorist activity on its soil and reserves the right to defend its citizens.

“It was important to send a strong and resolute message after Pahalgam… a red line was crossed, and we had to make it clear there will be serious consequences,” he said, outlining the steps taken by the government, beginning with diplomatic censures and the suspension of the critical 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, which irrigates over half of Pakistan’s farms.