While inviting Pakistan’s Prime Minister to speak, Trump said, “Prime Minister Sharif of Pakistan and I have to say my favourite Field Marshal from Pakistan who is not here but the Prime Minister is here.”
Sharif went on to call Trump “the man the world needed most at this point in time,” claiming he had “stopped seven, now eight, wars,” including conflicts in South Asia and the Middle East as well as India-Pakistan conflict in May this year.
Trump's comment on India prompted a brief smile from the Pakistani Prime Minister standing behind him.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor questioned New Delhi’s decision to send only Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh to the high-profile summit, asking on X whether it reflected “strategic restraint or a missed opportunity.”
The remarks were made during Sharif’s visit to Iran, where he addressed a joint press briefing with Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian
The two have a contentious past, with Khan going out of his way to sideline Munir. However, with Shahbaz Sharif’s government bringing him back into the fold, the Pakistani Army chief is determined to dismantle Khan’s party, the Pakistan Terik-e-Insaf, after it repeatedly provoked the Army.
Nawaz Sharif will return to Pakistan in the next few weeks and indications suggest that he will also take charge of the PML (N) parliamentary election campaign.
Shahbaz Sharif's warnings were a sign of further escalation in the long-running showdown between the government and Khan, who has the backing of large numbers of supporters.
Pakistan's government will cut back allowances and travel expenses of ministers and advisers as part of an austerity drive that will save it 200 billion Pakistan rupees ($766 million) a year, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said.
In an interview with Dubai-based Al Arabiya TV, Shahbaz Sharif said that Pakistan has learned its lesson after three wars with India and stressed that now it wants peace with its neighbour.
The combination of political instability, a declining economy and rising security threats within the country poses a big challenge to the Shahbaz Sharif government.
The new death toll came a day after Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif asked for international help in battling deadly flood damage in the impoverished Islamic nation.
The meeting between the three top Opposition leaders took place at the Bilawal House here, hours after they ousted Imran Khan as the prime minister after the cricketer-turned-politician lost the no-confidence vote in the National Assembly.
News18 was among the first to report on the crisis brewing in Pakistan in November last year.
The election in the 15th National Assembly became just a formality after the Pakistan Peoples Party led by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari with 54 seats abstained from voting.
Shehbaz, the younger brother of jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, is already under pressure after his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party failed to return to power in Islamabad and looks certain to yield to Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the crucial Punjab provinicial assembly.
Sharif hinted his party would launch protests against the alleged rigging of polls.
Following the intelligence reports, the National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) dispatched a formal threat letter to the police and law enforcement agencies, the paper said.
Nawaz Sharif has nominated Shahbaz Sharif, his younger brother to take over as the country's Prime Minister after two months.