GoI rejects China’s claim of mediating India-Pakistan ceasefire

India has rejected China’s claim that it mediated a ceasefire between India and Pakistan during the military conflict earlier this year, reiterating that Islamabad itself requested a truce following Operation Sindoor and that no third-party intervention took place.

Sources told NDTV that Pakistan approached India’s Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) seeking a ceasefire, and that New Delhi has consistently maintained its long-standing position against external mediation in bilateral matters.

“India’s position on mediation has always been clear. No mediation took place after Operation Sindoor. India has always maintained that there can be no third-party intervention. Pakistan requested India’s DGMO for a ceasefire,” sources told NDTV.

The clarification came after China echoed US President Donald Trump’s claim that international mediation helped defuse tensions between India and Pakistan during the May conflict. Beijing’s remarks projected China as a peace negotiator between the two neighbours.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, speaking at the Symposium on the International Situation and China’s Foreign Relations in Beijing, claimed that China had played a mediatory role in several global conflicts, including tensions between India and Pakistan.

“This year, local wars and cross-border conflicts flared up more often than at any time since the end of World War II. Geopolitical turbulence continued to spread,” Wang said, according to official Chinese statements. “To build peace that lasts, we have taken an objective and just stance and focused on addressing both symptoms and root causes.”

Wang further claimed that Beijing had mediated in northern Myanmar, the Iranian nuclear issue, tensions between Pakistan and India, the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the recent Cambodia-Thailand dispute.

India, however, has consistently rejected any suggestion of third-party involvement in its bilateral engagements with Pakistan, maintaining that such matters are to be addressed directly between the two countries.