India, June 3 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday, while wrapping up his all-party delegation's Brazil visit, said on Monday that if at all any American persuasion took place in the process of stopping the conflict between New Delhi and Islamabad, it would be in Pakistan because India needed no persuasion to stop.

About US President Donald Trump's repeated claims of having brokered the ceasefire understanding between India and Pakistan, Tharoor said, "No one needed to persuade us to stop. We had already said to stop. If there was any persuasion by the American president or his senior officials, it would have been persuasion of the Pakistanis. They would have had to be persuaded. We don't need to be persuaded because we don't want wa...