{"id":1164,"date":"2025-06-19T08:08:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T08:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vegacelis.com\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:56:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:56:54","slug":"pakistan-army-chief-calls-for-trump-to-get-nobel-peace-prize-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vegacelis.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/pakistan-army-chief-calls-for-trump-to-get-nobel-peace-prize-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Army chief calls for Trump to get Nobel Peace Prize \u2013 White House"},"content":{"rendered":"
Asim Munir has credited the US president for preventing a nuclear war in South Asia<\/strong><\/p>\n Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir has called for US President Donald Trump to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for averting a “nuclear war between India and Pakistan”<\/em> last month, Reuters reports, citing White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly. Trump invited Munir for a private meeting over lunch on Wednesday, after the Pakistani field marshal called for the Nobel nomination, Kelly said, according to the report.<\/p>\n Munir, who is widely regarded as the most powerful person in Pakistan, became the first Pakistani serving chief of army staff to have a face-to-face meeting with a sitting US president, according to the Dawn newspaper. This was also the first time a serving Pakistani army chief was formally received at this level without holding political office or governing under martial law, the paper added.<\/p>\n “He [Munir] agreed with me. The reason I had him here was that I wanted to thank him for not going into the war [with India],”<\/em> Trump told reporters after the meeting. “And I want to thank [Indian] PM Modi as well, who just left a few days ago. We’re working on a trade deal with India and Pakistan. These two very smart people decided not to keep going with a war that could have been a nuclear war. Pakistan and India are two big nuclear powers.”<\/em><\/p>\n A few hours before hosting Munir, the US president had a phone call<\/a> with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who reaffirmed New Delhi’s long standing stance against third-party intervention in its dealings with Pakistan. Last month, the two South Asian nations had a military showdown, which began when India launched strikes on suspected terrorist facilities in Pakistani-controlled territories.<\/p>\n \n Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n