Washington DC, Aug. 26 -- US President Donald Trump has once again claimed that his intervention stopped a potential nuclear war between India and Pakistan, saying that seven fighter jets were shot down during the "raging" hostilities, a figure he had earlier put at five, and that he used trade pressure to halt the hostilities.

"I have stopped all of these wars. A big one would have been India and Pakistan..." Trump said during a bilateral meeting with the President of the Republic of Korea.

He added, "The war with India and Pakistan was the next level that was going to be a nuclear war... They already shot down 7 jets - that was raging. I said, 'You want to trade? We are not doing any trade or anything with you if you keep fighting, yo...