Sharif lauds Trump, calls him ‘man of peace’ at UN speech

What Pak prime minister said

- Shashank Mattoo

Using the high-profile UN forum to reinforce Pakistan's earlier nomination, Sharif described Trump as “a man of peace” and claimed the American leader's “timely and decisive” intervention averted full-scale conflict following India’s Operation Sindoor.

India has rejected that such mediation ever took place after Trump first made such claims. Prime Minister Narendra Modi directly told Trump during a June phone call that no American mediation occurred, with New Delhi maintaining the ceasefire was reached through direct talks between the Directors General of Military Operations of Indian and Pakistani armed forces.

“Had he not intervened timely and decisively, the consequences of a full-fledged war would have been catastrophic. Who would have lived to tell what happened?” Sharif told the assembly in New York.