Pakistan has nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, calling him a “genuine peacemaker” for his role in helping to avert a major confrontation between India and Pakistan last month.
Pakistan’s government said in a statement posted Saturday on the social media platform X that Trump had demonstrated “stellar statesmanship” during the India-Pakistan crisis. It was triggered by the terrorist massacre of 26 Indian tourists near Pahalgam in India-controlled Kashmir on April 22.
At the time, India accused Pakistan of supporting the terrorists, but the two countries, both nuclear-armed, agreed to the terms of a U.S.-mediated cease-fire on May 10, following three days of cross-border shelling, drone attacks, and missile strikes…