India, July 1 -- India's foreign minister S Jaishankar has sought to clear the air about the idea that US President Donald Trump effected the ceasefire between India and Pakistan when the neighbours got into a massive escalation after a terror attack in Kashmir's Pahalgam in April.

Referring to India's Operation Sindoor, he charted the series of events from what he termed his "personal experience", in an interview with the US-based magazine Newsweek in New York.

He said he was in the room when US Vice-President JD Vance spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi "on the night of May 9". Vance said, according to Jaishankar, that the Pakistanis would launch "a very massive assault" on India.

"We did not accept certain things, and the Prime Mi...