India, Sept. 26 -- In his meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif seemed to have echoed that Washington helped it secure a ceasefire understanding with India during Operation Sindoor.

Sharif and Pakistani army chief, Field Marshal Shehbaz Sharif, met Trump at the Oval Office on Thursday. The meeting took place on the sidelines of this week's UN General Assembly.

India has consistently denied claims that Donald Trump mediated the ceasefire with Pakistan after the four-day intense fight between the two South Asian neighbours. The tiff had occurred in the aftermath of the Indian Armed Forces' Operation Sindoor on terror infrastructure in response to the April 22 Pahalgam attack that...