Pakistan nominates Donald Trump for Nobel Peace Prize: ‘Pivotal leadership during India-Pak crisis…’

Pakistan has officially nominated United States President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize 2026, citing his "decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership" during the recent India-Pakistan crisis. Announcing their nomination for Donald Trump for Nobel Peace Prize, Pakistan credited Trump with helping “defuse tensions” – claims India has repeatedly denied.

The nomination came after Donald Trump was asked Friday about the Nobel and said he should be awarded it for a variety of reasons, including his work on India and Pakistan and arranging a treaty he said would be signed on Monday to end hostilities between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.

“I should have gotten it four or five times,” the president said. “They won't give me a Nobel Peace Prize because they only give it to liberals.”

In a later post, Donald Trump reiterated his role in “brokering” peace between India and Pakistan and other global conflicts as he took a dig at ex-Pentagon official who said the US President was willing to put “other countries' national security below his own desire to win a Nobel Peace Prize”.

“The problem with Donald Trump is that he doesn't have a full sense of history. He's prone to more equivalence; he will put other countries' national security below his own desire to win a Nobel Peace Prize,” said Michael Rubin.

To this, Donald Trump said, “I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for this, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the War between India and Pakistan, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the War between Serbia and Kosovo…I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for keeping Peace between Egypt and Ethiopia (A massive Ethiopian built dam, stupidly financed by the United States of America, substantially reduces the water flowing into The Nile River)”

He said he won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize “no matter what I do,” but “the people know, and that’s all that matters to me!”

HETE'S WHY PAK NOMINATED TRUMP

The post read that “at a moment of heightened regional turbulence”, President Trump “demonstrated great strategic foresight and stellar statesmanship through robust diplomatic engagement with both Islamabad and New Delhi” 

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It continued that the US president “de-escalated a rapidly deteriorating situation, ultimately securing a ceasefire and averting a broader conflict between the two nuclear states that would have had catastrophic consequences for millions of people in the region and beyond,” as reported by Dawn. “This intervention stands as a testament to his [Trump's] role as a genuine peacemaker and his commitment to conflict resolution through dialogue,” it added.

“Durable peace in South Asia would remain elusive until the implementation of United Nations Security Council resolutions concerning Jammu and Kashmir,” it observed, as reported by Dawn.

(With inputs from agencies)