'We Stopped Two Nuclear...': Trump Repeats Claims Of Ending India-Pakistan Conflict

Last Updated:January 17, 2026, 07:12 IST

Trump said Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had personally thanked him for his role in de-escalating tensions.

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United States President Donald Trump on Saturday once again claimed credit for preventing a war between India and Pakistan, saying his intervention helped avert a conflict between the two nuclear-armed neighbours and saved millions of lives.

Speaking at an event marking the renaming of Southern Boulevard to Donald J Trump Boulevard, Trump said Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had personally thanked him for his role in de-escalating tensions.

“In a year, we made eight peace deals. We have peace in the Middle East. We stopped India and Pakistan from fighting, two nuclear nations," Trump said. “The Prime Minister of Pakistan said Donald Trump saved at least 10 million people. It was amazing."

Trump has repeated similar assertions multiple times since May last year, maintaining that his diplomatic pressure prevented an escalation between New Delhi and Islamabad. These remarks have coincided with his broader pitch for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The US president recently highlighted a gesture by Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate Maria Corina Machado, who presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to him during a meeting at the White House.

Machado described the move as a symbolic acknowledgement of Trump’s support for Venezuela’s democratic movement.

Trump later called the act “a wonderful gesture of mutual respect" and thanked her publicly on Truth Social.

However, the Norwegian Nobel Committee and the Norwegian Nobel Institute have clarified that Nobel Prizes cannot be transferred, shared, or reassigned once awarded, and that such honours remain permanently with the original recipient.

Meanwhile, India has consistently rejected claims of third-party mediation in the India-Pakistan de-escalation.

New Delhi has maintained that the cessation of hostilities followed direct military-level communication between the two countries after India launched Operation Sindoor, targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan in response to the April 2025 Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 26 people.

According to Indian officials, it was Pakistan’s Director General of Military Operations who reached out to his Indian counterpart on May 10, seeking a halt to hostilities, following which a ceasefire was agreed upon.

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