In a rare shift from his usual rhetoric, U.S. President Donald Trump refrained from taking credit for halting military hostilities between India and Pakistan, instead praising the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan’s Army Chief,

Donald Trump said that the two "very smart" leaders of India and Paksitan "decided" not to continue a war that could have turned nuclear.

Washington: In a matter of hours, US President Donald Trump shifted from his claims of having "stopped" the war between India and Pakistan, and gave credit to "two very smart people, (who) decided not to keep going with that war that could have been a nuclear" one without claiming a mediatory role for himself.