Trade incentives averted India-Pakistan war-Team Trump’s claim in defence of tariffs in US court

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President Donald Trump leveraged US trade access as a bargaining tool to help “avert a full-scale war between India and Pakistan,” Trump’s officials told the federal court. This submission made to a federal court in New York comes even as the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has rejected Trump’s claim on the India-Pakistan ceasefire, asserting that the decision to halt hostilities followed the military action that compelled Islamabad to stand down. New Delhi: The Trump administration has defended its right to presidential tariff powers by citing the use of trade incentives to stop armed hostilities between India and Pakistan post...