Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has again publicly backed Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. In a post on X, he credited the US president with helping secure the May 2025 ceasefire between Pakistan and India. The Shehbaz Sharif statement on Trump came on October 9, the day the 2026 laureate was named. The Nobel committee did not choose Trump. The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize went to South African lawyer and former judge Navi Pillay. Here is what the prime minister said, how the nominations work, and why the…
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