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US President Donald Trump has finally paid off Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir for crediting India-Pakistan ceasefire negotiations and backing his desire for the Nobel Peace Prize. Both Sharif and Munir repeteadly credited the US President for ceasefire between India and Pakistan despite New Delhi rejected the mediation claims and highlighted how Pakistan forces rushed to India for settlement.

Déjà vu moment for Sharif and Munir

Trump said the Pakistani leader and Army chief backed his plan to end the Gaza conflict “100 per cent”, and he listed them among the world leaders “very much involved” in the negotiations on the issue. Trump’s move must be a déjà vu moment for Sharif and Munir, as both received praise from the US President for their so-called involvement in the negotiations.

“We were together with most of these people that I'm mentioning. Others were by phone or the next day. The prime minister and the field marshal of Pakistan were with us right from the beginning, incredible," he said.

“In fact, they just put out a statement that they fully believe in this pact. It just came out. Just as I was walking out, they said, ‘Sir, you have a big notice from the prime minister of Pakistan and from the field marshal that they back this 100 per cent,” Trump added.

Trump peace plan to end Gaza war 

Trump's ‘Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict', announced Monday, entails that Gaza will be a deradicalised, terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbours and will be redeveloped. Once all hostages are released, Israel will release 250 life sentence prisoners and 1700 Gazans who were detained after October 7, 2023, including all women and children. For every Israeli hostage whose remains are released, Israel will release the remains of 15 deceased Gazans.

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Following the announcement, the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, UAE, Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye, Qatar, and Egypt issued a joint statement welcoming Trump's “leadership” and his “sincere efforts” to end the war in Gaza.

“This afternoon, after extensive consultation with our friends and partners throughout the region, I'm formally releasing our principles for peace, which people have really liked,” Trump said at a joint news conference with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House on Monday.

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“These are done in total consideration and working with the nations that we're talking about. All of these nations have made contributions to those suggestions. I want to thank the leaders of many Arab and Muslim nations for their tremendous support in developing the proposal along with many of our allies in Europe,” he said.

Trump then went on to thank the world leaders with whom he had “meetings and dialogue” on Gaza, including Pakistan. “And I want to just say that my meetings and dialogue that we had with so many countries, Saudi Arabia as an example, the King is a phenomenal person. The Emir of Qatar, who is incredible…UAE, and that's MBZ and ABZ,” Trump said, referring to UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

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He said these leaders were “totally involved”. “These are the people that we've been dealing with, that have been actually very much involved in this negotiation, giving us ideas, things they can live with, things they can't live with, pretty complex,” Trump said. “The King of Jordan was with us in the United Nations. President of Turkiye, President Erdogan. He's a friend of mine, a strong man but a good man. The President of Indonesia, somebody who's an amazing leader, Prabowo (Subianto). He is an amazing leader and is respected by everybody. He was in the room with us,” the president said.

Trump's back-to-back meetings with Pakistani leader

Sharif, who was in New York for the high-level 80th session of the UN General Assembly, had met Trump, along with Munir, in the White House on Thursday. Early this summer, Trump had hosted Munir for lunch at the White House and the field marshal had accompanied Sharif for his first visit to the White House.

Sharif had also met Trump in New York on the margins of the UNGA session when the US president held a multilateral meeting on Tuesday with leaders from Arab nations and others, including Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkiye.

(With inputs from agency)