By Anjali Sharma
WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump on Saturday has reiterated his claim again of having stopped a war between India and Pakistan in May last year, said nobody more than him deserved the Nobel Prize.
He was talking to reporters at the White House last night, he said, “Whether people like Trump or don’t like Trump, I settled 8 wars big ones. Some going on for 36 years, 32, 31, 28, 25 years.”
Trump said, “Some (wars were) just getting ready to start, like India and Pakistan, where already eight jets were shot down in the air, and I got it done in rapid order without nuclear weapons. I can’t think of anybody in history who should get the Nobel Prize more than me, and I don’t want to brag, but nobody else has settled wars. You should get the Nobel Prize for every war you stopped.”
He said these were ‘’major wars, these were wars nobody thought could be stopped. I don’t care about that; I care about saving lives. I’ve saved tens of millions of lives.”
Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin had called him and mentioned two wars that the latter had been wanting to stop for ten years.
“Pakistan’s Prime Minister (Shehbaz Sharif) came here and made a public statement that President Trump saved ten million lives involving Pakistan and India, and that was going to be raging.’’
He wondered why former President Barack Obama was given the Nobel Prize. ‘’He (Obama) had no idea why he was given the prize…he still has no idea. He didn’t do anything.’’
Trump has made claims on numerous occasions ever since the cessation of hostilities between India and Pakistan after their four-day conflict in May last year.
India has consistently denied third-party involvement in ending hostilities with Pakistan, said the ceasefire was brokered by the DGMOs on the two sides.
He made fresh statement after India termed as ‘’not accurate’’ the reported remarks of US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that a bilateral trade agreement between the two countries did not happen because Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not call the American President.
New Delhi stated it is still committed to a mutually beneficial trade deal with the US.
The new US Ambassador Sergio Gor arrived in India to take charge of his assignment.
In a social media post on ‘X’, he said, ‘’Great to be back in India! Incredible opportunities ahead for our two nations.”
