US President Donald Trump during a phone call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi On 17 June sought the support of New Delhi for a Nobel Prize for Peace, The New York Times reported. Trump claimed the honor of ending the hostilities of India-Pakistan after the Sindoor Operation, was launched in response to the terror attack of the Pahalgam-a statement that New Delhi has repeatedly pushed back.
During the phone call on June 17, Trump said “how proud he was at ending the military escalation” and “said Pakistan would nominate him for the Nobel Prize for Peace,” reported the Times, those interviews with unnamed people in New Delhi and Washington. “The non-so-subtle implication, according to people who are familiar with the call, was that Mr. Modi should do the same,” said the report.
The Prime Minister Trump reportedly said that the American involvement “had nothing to do with the recent ceasefire”, and that things were “directly arranged between India and Pakistan”. The report added: “Mr. Trump largely deposited the comments of the Lord Modi, but the disagreement – and the refusal of the Lord Modi to deal with the Nobel – played an extraordinary role in the purification relationship between the two leaders …”
