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Over to Siddharth Varadarajan for today’s Cable

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Snapshot of the day

June 18, 2025

Siddharth Varadarajan

Narendra Modi’s attempt to contradict Donald Trump’s ‘I ended the India-Pakistan war’ narrative failed today when the US president reiterated his claim hours after India said the Indian prime minister had told Trump the “discussion to cease military action took place directly between India and Pakistan through the existing channels of communication between the two armed forces.”

So damaging is Trump’s claim to the BJP’s official line about Operation Sindoor that the government got Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri to record a