Pakistan prime minister Shehbaz Sharif has put on another show of deference to Donald Trump, praising the alleged role played by the US President in preventing a "devastating war".
Sharif, who is in US to attend the United Nations General Assembly, praised Trump after the President's one-hour long address in New York.
The Pakistan PM welcomed Trump's "commitment to establishing world peace", adding that he is “indeed a man of peace”.
Sharif, who has latched on to the US President's repeated claims of stopping the war between India and Pakistan, once again expressed his gratitude to Trump.
The Pakistan PM claimed that the Trump administration played a crucial role in preventing a "potentially devastating war between India and Pakistan".
“For that we thank him from the depths of our hearts," he added.
Earlier, Trump repeated his claim of ending seven wars, including the military confrontation between India and Pakistan in May this year, during his UNGA speech.
He claimed that since assuming office, he has stopped conflicts between Armenia and Azerbaijan; Cambodia and Thailand; Israel and Iran; India and Pakistan; Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Egypt and Ethiopia; and Serbia and Kosovo.
Sharif and his ministers have been crediting Trump following the ceasefire between India and Pakistan, describing it as a "big diplomatic achievement". They even backed Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize.
However, recently, Pakistan foreign minister and deputy PM Ishaq Dar said that India had categorically rejected third-party mediation during the intense military escalation in May.
In an interview to Al Jazeera, Dar said that when he asked US Secretary of State Marco Rubio about third party mediation with India, the US official told him that New Delhi has refused the proposal since it is a bilateral matter.
"We don't mind (third party mediation) ... but India has categorically been stating that it's a bilateral (issue). We don't mind bilateral. When we met on July 25 with Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington, I asked him what happened to the dialogue, he said that India says it's a bilateral issue," Dar said when asked whether Pakistan is open to third-party involvement between the two countries.
The statement was seen as an inadvertent admission that India never agreed to the role of a third country in resolving the conflict.
India has repeatedly denied Trump's claims that he stopped the war, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi telling Lok Sabha recently that no world leader asked New Delhi to "stop Operation Sindoor".
He even described his interaction with US Vice President JD Vance during the conflict on May 9 and revealed how he told the Trump administration that Pakistan will suffer the consequences of its actions if it chooses to escalate the situation.
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