A claim is going viral about Operation Sindoor and the tensions between India and Pakistan. A user named Mansoor Ahmed Qureshi shared a claim, “On May 9, the US warned PM Modi that Pakistan would launch a major attack unless certain conditions were accepted. India accepted, immediately”. The user has been found to be a frequent fake news peddler by the DFRAC team.
Other users were also found sharing similar claims, which can be seen here and here.
Fact Check
Upon investigation, we found the viral claim to be misleading. India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar confirmed in an exclusive interview with Newsweek that on May 9, 2025, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance called Prime Minister Narendra Modi, warning of an imminent, large-scale attack from Pakistan. The warning came at a moment of high tension, following India’s retaliatory strikes, Operation Sindoor, launched days earlier in response to a major terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir. During the call, Vance reportedly conveyed that unless India accepted certain unspecified conditions, Pakistan was prepared to escalate with a “very massive assault.”
However, Jaishankar made it emphatically clear that India did not accept any such conditions. In fact, according to him, Prime Minister Modi firmly rejected the perceived pressure. Jaishankar, who stated “I was in the room” during the call, recounted that Modi was “impervious” to the warning and reiterated that India would not be cowed by external threats. Modi made clear to the U.S. Vice President that if Pakistan took any further aggressive steps, India’s response would be even stronger. Jaishankar added that “Pakistan did attack us massively that night, and we responded very quickly thereafter.”
Several media outlets, including Money Control, The Times of India, and Economic Times, corroborated Jaishankar’s remarks.
Conclusion
The claim that “India accepted U.S. conditions immediately to avoid a Pakistani attack on May 9” is a misrepresentation of events. While it is true that US Vice President J.D. Vance issued a high-level warning to PM Narendra Modi about a potential large-scale Pakistani military response, the notion that India “accepted” terms to avoid confrontation is False. India did not “accept immediately” or back down. India stood firm and responded militarily.
