US President Donald Trump again received praise on Field Marshal Asim Munir on Wednesday, whom he recently met in the White House and reiterated his position that he stopped last month’s conflict between the nuclear armed Pakistan and India.
The US president, who approached a press conference after attending the annual NATO summit in Hauge, called the Pakistan-India conflict the “most important” of all the recent, and said both countries have nuclear weapons, and he ended with a number of phone calls for trade.
“I said see if you have to fight each other … It got very bad … I said that if you want to fight each other, we shouldn’t trade in trade deals,” Trump said.
Trump, who praised Field Marskalk Munir, said, “I met General from Pakistan last week in my office – a very impressive personality, a great man.”
He also described the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a close friend and said, “Modi is a great friend of me. A great gentleman.”
“We made them resonate and I said we won’t make any trade deal if you have to fight … and you know what they said no, I want to do the trade deal and we stopped a nuclear war,” he added.
President Trump said last month that the nuclear armed South Asian neighbors agreed to ceasefire after conversations conveyed by the United States and that hostilities ended after calling on the countries to focus on trade instead of war.
Islamabad had previously said that the ceasefire happened after its military returned a call that the Indian military had initiated on May 7.
Although Pakistan has again praised and credited President Trump for his role in the ceasefire, which he himself has highlighted on several occasions, India has denied any American involvement at all.
However, the US president is on a record of repeating his attitude and has even offered to convey the long -standing Kashmir – twist between the two countries – an attitude also highlighted by the US Ministry of State.
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s government has also recommended Trump at the Nobel Peace Prize 2026, referring to his “decisive diplomatic intervention” and “Pivotal Leadership” during the recent crisis between Pakistan and India.
On June 18, Indian Prime Minister Modi Trump told the ceasefire to be obtained through conversations between the Indian and Pakistani militaries and not American mediation, according to India’s most senior diplomat, foreign secretary Vikram Misri.
The heaviest matches of decades between Pakistan and India were caused by an attack on April 22 in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), who killed 26 people, most of them tourists. New Delhi accused Pakistan of the attack, an indictment denied by Islamabad.
In response to India’s cross-border strikes, Pakistan had launched Operation Bunyan-Eum-Marsoos after shutting down six Indian Air Force Rays, including three Rafales in response to Indian aggression.
The two countries, after four days of armed conflict, agree on a ceasefire on May 10th.
