ISLAMABAD: US President Donald Trump, who has aggressively campaigned for a Nobel Prize, hailed his peace efforts and joked about not getting the prize at a dinner at the White House on Wednesday, saying Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif got “emotional” while crediting him for saving millions of lives.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last week. Over the past two years, she has reenergized a politically disengaged population after more than a decade of economic and social collapse.
Speaking at the White House dinner, Trump said Pakistan PM Sharif recently met him and emotionally credited him in front of a group of people for stopping multiple wars and thus saving lives of millions of people that could have been lost to the conflicts.
“In fact, the prime minister of Pakistan came and told me, and he was emotional about it. And in front of a group of people, he said, ‘This man saved 3 million, 5 million, maybe an untold number of lives’,” the US president said.
“And it was just recently that this happened, and we did numerous of them like that. And part of the reason we did it was trade.”
