No trade-related matter was discussed during the telephone call between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US Vice-President JD Vance on 9 May (Friday), sources told Sputnik India on Monday.
Sources also clarified that there wasn't a single reference to trade in any of the telephone calls between US Secretary of State/National Security Advisor (NSA) Marco Rubio and External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on 8 May, or between Rubio and NSA Ajit Doval on 10 May.
The Indian rebuttal came hours after US President Donald Trump said that the US mediation efforts helped to prevent a "nuclear war" between India and Pakistan.
"I said, if you stop it, we’re doing trade. If you don’t stop it, we’re not going to do any trade. People have never really used trade the way I used it. By that, I can tell you, and all of a sudden they said, I think we’re gonna stop. And they have,” the US President told a briefing at the White House on Monday.
Incidentally, Trump was the first to announce on social media on Saturday (10 May) that the US "mediated" talks between India and Pakistan, even before the official announcements from either New Delhi or Islamabad.
US Secretary of State/National Security Advisor (NSA) Marco Rubio said on Saturday that Vice-President JD Vance and himself had spoken with PM Modi, EAM Jaishankar and NSA Doval as well as Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif, NSA Asim Malik and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Asim Munir in a bid to de-escalate military tensions.
After nearly three days of kinetic conflict involving aerial, land-based and naval assets following India's counter-terror precision strikes on Pakistani targets on 7 May, Director General of Military Operations of Pakistan (DGMO) called the Indian DGMO on Saturday afternoon (10 May) to initiate a ceasefire.
PM Modi said on Monday evening that Indian pre-dawn strikes at nine "terrorist hideouts and training centres" across Pakistan on 7 May had left over 100 terrorists dead. These strikes, part of 'Operation Sindoor', were launched in retaliation to the deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam on 22 April.
India and Pakistan officially announced their agreement to "stop all firing and military action on land and in the air and sea" from Saturday (5 PM IST), with both the militaries committing to uphold the conflict pause understanding during talks on Monday evening (5 PM IST).
During talks between Indian DGMO Lieutenant General Gen Rajiv Ghai and Pakistan's Major General Kashif Abdullah on Monday, both the sides agreed to continue the committment to "not fire a single shot or initiate any aggressive and inimical action against each other", according to an Indian readout.
Both India and Pakistan also agreed that both sides would take immediate measures to ensure troop reduction from border and forward areas, it said.