Overview
- Speaking at a Florida event for the renaming of Southern Boulevard to Donald J Trump Boulevard, the U.S. president said Pakistan’s Shehbaz Sharif thanked him for saving “at least 10 million people.”
- Trump reiterated that U.S. pressure stopped fighting between the nuclear-armed neighbors, repeating a claim he has voiced multiple times since May 2025.
- Indian officials maintain the ceasefire followed India’s Operation Sindoor and a May 10 outreach by Pakistan’s Director General of Military Operations to his Indian counterpart.
- New Delhi’s position is that the pause in hostilities was arranged through direct military-to-military communication without outside mediation.
- Trump’s remarks coincided with renewed attention to a symbolic gesture by Nobel laureate Maria Corina Machado, after which the Norwegian Nobel Committee clarified that Nobel Prizes cannot be transferred.