AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday sought answers from Islamabad, days after Pakistan announced it plans to nominate US President Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize, citing the role that Islamabad says he played in helping to negotiate a ceasefire last month between India and Pakistan.
Slamming Islamabad for the move, Owaisi questioned whether Pakistan had supported Trump only to see the US dropping bombs on Iran and mocked Pakistan Army chief General Asim Munir's meeting with Trump at the White House on Wednesday.
"We should ask Pakistanis if they wanted Trump to get a Nobel Peace Prize since they had proposed it," he said after the US struck Iran's three nuclear sites in Isfahan, Fordow and Natanz.
The Donald Trump administration struck three nuclear installations in Iran -- Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. This is the first time the US has attacked facilities in Iran since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. "Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier," the US President said after the airstrikes.
However, India has consistently maintained that the US did not serve as a mediator to end the fighting last month, and says it does not want any diplomatic intervention from a third party. Trump has often suggested he should receive the Nobel Peace Prize, whose winner this year will be named in October.
Trump entered office vowing to quickly end the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza wars, although peace deals in both conflicts have eluded him so far.
He has frequently criticised Barack Obama for winning a Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 after less than eight months as US president. In 2013, Trump called on the Norwegian Nobel Committee to rescind the award.
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