Virendra Pandit
New Delhi: Despite India’s multiple warnings that its Operation Sindoor (May 7-10, 2025) was merely suspended at Pakistan’s request and could resume if Islamabad-sponsored terrorists carried out another Pahalgam-type attack, both America and Pakistan have been boasting about their ‘victory’ in their own ways.
In May, India launched Operation Sindoor, targeting nine terrorist infrastructure sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), following the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 Hindu tourists were killed.
While US President Donald Trump claimed nearly 40 times that he arranged an alleged “ceasefire” between the two neighbors, Pakistan’s Army chief Mullah Syed Asim Munir elevated himself as a “Field Marshal.” He even became Trump’s blue-eyed boy, gave his family business benefits, and promptly nominated the US President for a Nobel Peace Prize.
While India has repeatedly denied any foreign role or negotiations for the so-called “peace deal,” not only Munir, but even Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar have admitted recently how India’s relentless military action panicked Islamabad.
But these exposures don’t bother Trump. To reinforce his own unfounded claims, he has now decorated an Indian-origin supporter, no less, for his alleged role in “peace negotiations.”
Meet this gentleman.
US advisor Ranjit ‘Ricky’ Singh Gill has come into focus after receiving a Distinguished Action Award from the National Security Council (NSC) for his role in “negotiating” a ceasefire between India and Pakistan earlier this year, the media reported on Tuesday.
The award was conferred earlier this week by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
New Jersey-born Gill, 37, serves as senior director for South and Central Asia at the NSC and is a special assistant to the US President.
Before joining the NSC, Gill served for two years as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has previously held roles within the Trump administration’s NSC as director for Russia and European energy security. He has also worked as a senior advisor at the US State Department’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations. In his current role, Gill handles India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, along with broader South and Central Asia-related issues.
Before joining the government, Gill contested the 2012 election for California’s House seat as a Republican at the age of 24, narrowly losing to Democrat Jerry McNerney.
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