Washington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken to US President Donald Trump over the phone after the G7 summit. In fact, Trump returned to Washington on Tuesday morning, leaving his visit to Kananiskis, Canada for the G7 summit amid rising tensions in West Asia due to the Israel-Iran conflict. In such a situation, he decided to talk to PM Modi over the phone. During this, Donald Trump asked PM Modi if he could stop in America while returning from Canada, but the Prime Minister expressed his inability to do so due to pre-scheduled engagements.
Munir demands Nobel Prize for Trump
White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said Trump will host Munir as he has called on the president to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize for preventing a nuclear war between India and Pakistan.
Trump invited PM Modi at the wrong time?
Trump invited PM Modi to the White House when Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir is in the US. Donald Trump will also have lunch with Asim Munir today at around 10 pm Indian time. This invitation to Munir is being seen as a rare gesture by Washington to a serving Pakistani army chief. There have been many instances of such invitations to Pakistani army chiefs like Ayub Khan, Zia ul-Haq and Pervez Musharraf, but they were also in the post of President. Pakistan is presenting General Munir's White House invitation as a major diplomatic victory.
What did Trump want to do by inviting PM Modi
Indo Pacific analyst Derek J Grossman has termed Trump's invitation as a ploy by the US. He wrote on X, "It is very strange that Trump tried to secretly invite Modi to the White House today, possibly at a time when Asim Munir would also be present for lunch. He does not understand the context and history of India-Pakistan tension at all, and just wants to get a photo opportunity to win the Nobel Peace Prize later." Brahma Chellaney said this on Trump's invitation
Well-known diplomacy expert Brahma Chellaney said, "Trump, a firebrand who masquerades as a peacemaker, has not abandoned his self-appointed role as mediator in the Indian subcontinent. Without disclosing his planned lunch with Pakistan's army chief, he quietly invited Modi to the White House. The back-to-back meetings would have set a diplomatic trap - which Modi avoided by citing prior commitments ranging from the G7 summit in Alberta, Canada to a state visit to Croatia."
