US Monitors India-Pakistan Situation Daily, Says Marco Rubio.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that the United States keeps a daily watch on tensions between India and Pakistan, as well as other global hotspots. Speaking on NBC News’s Meet the Press, Rubio said, “Every single day we keep an eye on what’s happening between Pakistan and India, what’s happening between Cambodia and Thailand.”
Ceasefires and Challenges
Rubio noted that the US has consistently called for ceasefires in ongoing conflicts, but stressed that negotiating peace during active hostilities is difficult. “The only way to have a ceasefire is for both sides to agree to stop firing at one another. The Russians have not agreed to that,” he said, referring to the ongoing war in Ukraine.
He added that maintaining ceasefires after long conflicts is particularly challenging. “Ceasefires can fall apart very quickly, especially after a three-and-a-half-year war like what we’re facing now,” Rubio said. He emphasized that the goal should be a lasting peace deal, rather than a temporary halt in fighting.
India Rejects Third-Party Mediation
Rubio’s remarks come amid ongoing claims by former US President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly taken credit for reducing tensions between India and Pakistan, citing events like Operation Sindoor and the Pahalgam terror attack. Trump has suggested that his intervention led to a ceasefire between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
India, however, has consistently rejected such claims. New Delhi maintains that all matters with Pakistan are handled bilaterally, with no role for third-party mediation.
During a special discussion in Parliament on Operation Sindoor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “We had said from day one that our action was non-escalatory. No leader in the world asked us to stop Operation Sindoor.”
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar also dismissed claims of foreign influence, clarifying that the ceasefire was unrelated to trade discussions and that no external leader influenced India’s military decisions.
Context: US-Russia Summit
Rubio’s statements follow former President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, where Trump reportedly said that any peace process should proceed without requiring a prior ceasefire—a position that Ukraine and its European allies, as well as the US, have consistently supported.
The Alaska summit was the first US-Russia meeting since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and lasted three hours.
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