New Delhi, July 31 -- External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday reiterated the assertion that the US had no role in ending hostilities between India and Pakistan in May, telling the Rajya Sabha in the face of Opposition criticism that there was no phone call between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump during the tensions. Jaishankar's remarks, made while participating in a special debate on Operation Sindoor, came a day after Trump repeated his claim about ending the hostilities that erupted after India targeted terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir in retaliation for the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 civilians. Trump has continued reiterating the claim despite denials from the Indian leadership, which has maintained there is no room for mediation between India and Pakistan. "I want to make three things clear. One, there was no leader, nobody anywhere in the world, who asked India to stop its operations.Number two, there was no linkage with trade.in any of those conversations. And there was no call between Prime Minister and President Trump," Jaishankar said, referring to Trump's contention that he used the threat of trade restrictions to get India and Pakistan to end their hostilities. Jaishankar was repeatedly interrupted by Opposition members, who raised Trump's claims and asked if the US President was lying. He responded to one such interruption by senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh by saying in Hindi: "I want to tell Jairam Ramesh to open his ears and listen to this - from April 22 to June 16, there wasn't even one phone call between President Trump and Prime Minister Modi." Trump had spoken to Modi following the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22, and the two leaders next spoke on June 17, after they were unable to meet on the margins of the G7 Summit. On Tuesday, Modi told Parliament that he spoke to US vice-president JD Vance during Operation Sindoor. On Tuesday, Trump had cited the recent India-Pakistan conflict among instances of hostilities around the world that he had ended....