Pakistan has said it will recommend Donald Trump for the Nobel peace prize for his work in helping to resolve the recent conflict between India and Pakistan. The move, announced on Saturday, came as the US president mulls joining Israel in striking Iran’s nuclear facilities.
“President Trump demonstrated great strategic foresight and stellar statesmanship through robust diplomatic engagement with both Islamabad and New Delhi, which de-escalated a rapidly deteriorating situation,” Pakistan said in a statement. “This intervention stands as a testament to his role as a genuine peacemaker.”
Governments can nominate people for the Nobel peace prize. There was no immediate response from Washington. A spokesperson for the Indian government did not respond to a request for comment.
In May, a surprise announcement by Trump of a ceasefire brought an abrupt end to a four-day conflict between nuclear-armed foes India and Pakistan. Trump has since repeatedly said that he averted a nuclear war, saved millions of lives and grumbled that he got no credit for it.
Pakistan agrees that US diplomatic intervention ended the fighting, but India says it was a bilateral agreement between the two militaries. In a phone call with Trump last week, the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, had made it “absolutely clear” that hostilities ceased only after Pakistan requested a ceasefire, and that no third-party mediation had taken place, said India’s foreign secretary, Vikram Misri.
Posted by John3262005
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Insane glazing. But it might work too
Tomorrow’s headline today
>White House announces free trade deal with Pakistan, 10B arms deal
Incoming 5000% tariff on India
If he wins they might as well abolish the prize altogether because it will have lost all meaning.
Trump has spent his whole life bullying others and has no real interest in helping anyone but himself, what does he even want a “Peace Prize” for? He already has money, status, power, and millions of delusional cult followers. It would be like me wanting an Olympic gold medal for some obscure sport I’ve never played. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be so narcissistic.