Pakistan Tries To Save Face
By A Special Correspondent
First publised on 2025-06-22 12:33:57
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It is laughable actually - Pakistan's decision to nominate US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. That too on a day when he backtracked on his repeated claim that he mediated for truce between India and Pakistan and also just before the day he ordered US forces to strike on nuclear facilities in Iran.
Ever since Trump claimed in a post on X that he had brought about ceasefire between the two warring neighbours, India has maintained that he had absolutely no role to play in the same. India claimed that the Pakistani side approached directly for a ceasefire through appropriate channels and India agreed because, by that time, it has achieved what it had set out to under Operation Sindoor.
Hence, Pakistan's decision to involve Trump and nominate him for a Nobel is more an attempt to hide its own weakness in calling for a ceasefire and making it look as if it was under US pressure that it agreed to do so. It is entirely a face-saving exercise by the military establishment in Pakistan and thought up for domestic consumption.
The nomination will not stand the test of scrutiny as there is absolutely no proof in public domain about Trump's, or even USA's, role in the ceasefire. The fact is that even Pakistan's deputy Prime Minister has publicly admitted that the country was forced to approach India for a ceasefire after the air bases around Rawalpindi were struck by the Indian forces. Hence, this tactic will not save face but further expose how the Pakistani forces were outwitted and defeated by India.
