New Delhi: US President Donald Trump has once again claimed that he played an instrumental role in affecting the ceasefire between India and Pakistan last year.Trump has made this assertion upwards of 80 times, according to news reports, despite New Delhi maintaining that the two countries had no help from a third party in arriving at the decision to end tensions.In April 22, terrorists killed 26 people at Pahalgam in Kashmir. In response, India, on May 7, had launched “Operation Sindoor” with drone and missile strikes against terror infrastructure in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and mainland Pakistan. There was retaliation and counter-retaliation for four days, before ceasefire was announced on May 10.On the same day, Trump had announced on social media that India and Pakistan had agreed to a “FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE” ceasefire after a “long night” of talks allegedly mediated by Washington.Addressing an event in Florida on January 16, Trump claimed again that the US had brokered multiple peace deals in less than a year.“In less than a year, we made eight peace deals and ended the war in Gaza. We have peace in the Middle East. Nobody thought that was going to be possible,” he said.He also said that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has thanked him for stopping the India-Pakistan conflict.“We stopped India and Pakistan from fighting, two nuclear nations… The Pakistani Prime Minister said ‘Donald Trump saved at least 10 million people’. And it was amazing, and it’s an honour,” he said.While Pakistan had indeed nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, India’s stance has been different, centring on the fact that direct communication between the Directors General of Military Operations was what led to peace.“The talks regarding cessation of military action were held directly between India and Pakistan under the existing channels established between both militaries,” India’s foreign secretary Vikram Misri has said.Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that no foreign leader asked India to halt Operation Sindoor.In earlier iterations of this claim, Trump has also claimed that he used tariff threats to affect the ceasefire.