Pakistan’s resolution to appoint US President Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize – simply days after a uncommon White Home assembly between Trump and Pakistan’s military chief – has raised considerations in India, the place analysts say the transfer may sign Islamabad is regaining strategic favour in Washington at New Delhi’s expense.
The nomination was formally filed on Saturday by Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar, who praised Trump’s function in serving to mediate a ceasefire throughout final month’s cross-border flare-up between India and Pakistan. Dar credited Trump with “essential and pragmatic diplomacy” that averted wider battle, describing the intervention as an act of “stellar statesmanship”.
The gesture adopted a high-profile lunch hosted by Trump final week for Basic Asim Munir – the primary time a Pakistani army chief has been acquired on the White Home beneath Islamabad’s civilian authorities – and has been broadly interpreted as a symbolic endorsement of Trump’s declare that he defused tensions between the 2 nuclear rivals.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had declined Trump’s invitation to go to the White Home citing prior commitments, has remained publicly silent.
Observers say, nonetheless, that eyebrows have been raised in Delhi over the optics of Trump extending such seen heat to Munir, and the timing and framing of the Nobel nomination, which seems geared toward reinforcing Trump’s long-standing narrative that his private diplomacy helped forestall open battle between India and Pakistan.
