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  "textContent": "US President Donald Trump has now raised the tally of aircraft shot down during the May 2025 conflict between Pakistan and India to 10.\n\nThe latest remarks by the US president came during an interview with _Fox Business_ , which was aired on Wednesday.\n\nThe host was praising Trump’s “reciprocity policy” in trade and using tariffs for that when the US president chimed in: “And that’s being very nice and gentle. Look, I settled eight wars. Out of the eight wars, at least six were settled because of tariffs.”\n\nTrump then explained: “In other words, I said, ‘if you don’t settle this war, I’m gonna charge you tariffs because I don’t wanna see people getting killed.’ And they said, ‘no, what does this have to do with it?’ I said, ‘you’re gonna be charged.’”\n\n“Like India and Pakistan would’ve been a nuclear war in my opinion. They were really going at it. Ten planes were shot down. They were going at it,” he added.\n\nTrump then quoted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif as praising him for “saving at least 10 million lives when he got us to stop fighting”.\n\n“Because, see, they were going to nuclear, in my opinion. Without tariffs, that (ceasefire) wouldn’t have happened,” the US president asserted.\n\n> @dawn.today\n>\n> US President Donald Trump said that a conflict between India and Pakistan “would have been a nuclear war” and suggested the two countries “were really going at it.” In remarks during an interview with Fox News, Trump claimed that “ten planes were shot down” during the confrontation and said he believed the situation could have escalated to nuclear conflict “without tariffs.” DawnToday\n>\n> ♬ original sound - Dawn.com - Dawn.com\n\nHe also recalled Armenia and Azerbaijan’s decades-long conflict, which saw tensions reduce when Trump brokered an initial peace agreement in August 2025.\n\nDuring the interview, Trump also termed “every single” US president during the last 50 years as “bad on trade”.\n\n“But I’m not bad on trade. I’m real good on trade,” he boasted.\n\n## US ties with Pakistan, India\n\nDuring his Oval Office meeting with Trump in September 2025, PM Shehbaz had thanked the US president for his role in mediating a _ceasefire_ between India and Pakistan in their four-day military _conflict_ in May 2025.\n\nTensions between India and Pakistan had _flared_ in April 2025 when a deadly _terror attack_ on tourists in occupied Kashmir was, without evidence, _blamed_ on Islamabad, which strongly _refuted_ the allegations.\n\nThe two sides traded a series of tit-for-tat blows that ended in May with the declaration of a _ceasefire_ by Trump, who has since _repeatedly_ _talked_ about his role in ending the military escalation between the two countries.\n\nInitially stating that _five jets_ were shot down during the conflict — albeit without specifying which side — Trump gradually raised that number to _seven in October_, and then _eight in November_.\n\nHe has also praised Chief of the Defence Forces and Chief of the Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir on several occasions, calling him a “ _highly respected general_”, a “ _great fighter_” and “ _my favourite_”.\n\nIndia has _differed_ with Trump’s claims that the ceasefire between the two countries resulted from his intervention and his threats to sever trade talks.\n\nAfter what some saw as strained relations between the US and India after failed talks, Trump earlier this month announced a “trade deal” with New Delhi.\n\nDays later, Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar also made a three-day official visit to the US, where he held talks with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.",
  "title": "Trump now says 10 aircraft shot down during Pak-India conflict"
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