Islamabad (AP) – Pakistan condemned US President Donald Trump for bombing Iran, less than 24 hours after he said he earned a Nobel Prize in peace for the harmless crisis with India.
Relations between the two South Asian countries came in April in April after a massacre of tourists in Kashmir controlled by India. The nuclear arming rivals came closer to the war in the weeks that followed and attacked each other to intense diplomatic efforts, led by the US, resulted in a ceasefire for which Trump took credit.
It was this “decisive diplomatic intervention and crucial leadership” that Pakistan praised on Saturday evening in an exuberant message on the X platform when it announced his formal recommendation for him to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace.
Less than 24 hours later, however, it condemned the US for the attacks of Iran and said that the strikes “were a serious violation of international law” and the status of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in a phone call on Sunday with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, expressed his concern that the bomb attacks focused on facilities that were under the guarantees of the IAEA. Pakistan has close ties with Iran and supports his attacks on Israel and says it has the right to be self -defense.
There was no immediate commentary on Monday from Islamabad about the Trump Nobel Aanbar, who also followed a controversial lunch meeting of the White House between the president and the powerful army leader of Pakistan, Asim Munir.
The meeting of Thursday, which lasted more than two hours, was also attended by the State Secretary Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, the special representative of the US for Central Eastern Affairs.
According to a Pakistani military statement, a detailed exchange of views took place on the “prevailing tensions between Iran and Israel, where both leaders emphasized the importance of the solution of the conflict.”
While Pakistan Trump quickly thanked for his intervention in his crisis with India, New Delhi played it and said there was no need for external mediation about the Kashmir problem.
The Himalayas region of Kashmir is divided between Pakistan and India, but claimed by both in its entirety. India accuses Pakistan of supporting militant groups in the region, which denies Pakistan.
