Sharif Credits Trump at UN for Halting India-Pakistan War — SkimNews
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- Shehbaz Sharif credited Trump for his "timely intervention" during the 2025 India-Pakistan conflict, saying the American leader's "resolute and visionary leadership" saved hundreds of millions of lives in South Asia.
- Sharif raised the Kashmir issue in his roughly 23-minute UNGA address, calling for a "just and fair solution" so South Asia does not return to the brink seen during the 2025 conflict.
- India has consistently denied any third-party intervention in the conflict and will field one of its youngest diplomats at its UN Permanent Mission to exercise its Right of Reply to Sharif's address.
- India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, 2025 targeting terror infrastructure after the April 22 Pahalgam attack killed 26 civilians, and has placed the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance until Pakistan credibly ends cross-border terrorism — a position Sharif addressed in his speech.
- Sharif claimed Pakistan brokered peace between Washington and Tehran, citing the "Islamabad talks" and "Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding" as historic steps to end the West Asia conflict.
- Sharif repeatedly thanked Pakistan Chief of Defence Forces Field Marshal Asim Munir for creating "space for diplomacy under exceptionally difficult and challenging circumstances."
Why it matters: Pakistan's framing of Trump as the peacemaker in a conflict India insists required no outside help is a direct challenge to New Delhi's sovereignty narrative — and with India dispatching a junior diplomat specifically to rebut the Kashmir pitch, this UNGA exchange is less ceremonial than a scheduled diplomatic collision over who controls the story of the 2025 war.
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