Pakistan PM credits Trump with averting India conflict at UN

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif used his address to the UN General Assembly on Friday to praise US President Donald Trump for what he characterized as a "timely intervention" that prevented further escalation between India and Pakistan in 2025.

Sharif commended Trump's "resolute and visionary leadership," stating that the American President's intervention had "saved hundreds of millions of lives in South Asia." Trump has repeatedly claimed to have played a diplomatic role in preventing conflict between the two nuclear-armed nations, reiterating these assertions in his own UN address this week.

The remarks come amid heightened tensions that emerged after India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7 last year, targeting what New Delhi described as terror infrastructure across the border in response to an attack in Pahalgam on April 22 that killed 26 civilians. Pakistan-occupied Kashmir was also targeted in the operation.

During his approximately 23-minute address, Sharif also renewed Pakistan's long-standing calls for addressing the Kashmir dispute, arguing that resolution of the issue is essential to ensuring stability in South Asia.

India has consistently and firmly denied that any third party played a role in managing the situation, rejecting characterizations of external intervention in the bilateral matter.