The Government of Pakistan has gone far to nominate United States former President, Donald J. Trump to the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize officially. Such a suggestion can be justified by the vital role of President Trump in de-escalating the most serious security crisis South Asia has ever experienced, that of the conflict between India and Pakistan in 2025, showing every sign of leading to a full-blown war between two nuclear-ego nations.
In February 2025, Pakistan was confronted by unprovoked and unjustified aggression committed by India which has resulted in massive infringement of sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistan. The incursion inflicted inhuman losses with the loss of lives of innocent civilians, women, children and the aged. Such open display of aggression left Pakistan with no choice but to react militarily and in a concerted fashion. The response of Pakistan expressed in Operation Bunyanum Marsoos was calculated, precise and restrained. It is aimed at strengthening deterrent capabilities and defending national borders without touching civilian objects and causing minimum collateral damage.
With the scenario progressing fast, and the world increasingly worried about the possibility of the escalation of the scope of the war in the region, it was the effective diplomacy, timely, and conducted by President Trump that proved the catalyst. With backchannel diplomacy, the ability to talk directly to both Islamabad and New Delhi and coordinate among other players around the globe, President Trump was able to de-escalate the conflict at the most critical point. His statesmanlike governance resulted into a ceasefire pact, which suspended the hostilities and paved way to an open engagement between the two nations.
By acting, President Trump managed to avoid a military disaster and demonstrate his own support of peace and global stability. His interventions are well known to constitute an important contribution to the prevention of what would have turned into a devastating regional war with global consequences. It is in this context when the Government of Pakistan believes that the role played by President Trump is that of a true peace maker as one that used diplomacy over destruction and stability over political expediency.
Pakistan also acknowledges that President Trump has always supported ending the root of the conflict, which is persisting to date in South Asia, regarding the Kashmir dispute. The fact that he has constantly stated that he wishes to mediate and kept reaffirming this sentiment as well as publicly admitting that a peaceful settlement is a necessity in line with United Nations Security Council orders is very much appreciated by the people and government of Pakistan. The settlement of this conflict that lasts since decades is a needed move towards permanence of peace in the region and the intervention by President Trump is one that is a very unexpected step in putting an otherwise standing non-international conversation.
The Government of Pakistan feels that the initiatives of President Trump during 2025 is not a single piece of diplomacy but is an extension to his legacy of peace building initiative in the global world. The fact that he bankrolled his previous efforts in creating declarations of normalization of relations in Middle East, especially the Abraham Accords, which gave him the world renown already, gives him added mileage in his efforts in this regard. His diplomatic acumen, which is usually out of the box but effective, in any case, again, decisively shown in the case of South Asia, where age-old rivalries and baggage of grudges have most of the time made it appear difficult to achieve peace.
More so, leadership of President Trump in the India-Pakistan crisis is timely when the world peace is heavily strained. The issue of Gaza, escalating conflict with Iran and a myriad of other global hot spots require sound, practical and daring diplomatic initiative. The experience of President Trump indicates that he might be the only president who can talk to his enemies and develop strategies that focused on stability, dialogue, and humanitarian issues.
By proposing President Donald J. Trump to the Nobel Peace Prize in 2026, the Government of Pakistan will be doing more than recognizing his unprecedented effort in easing one of the most critical crises in the recent history of the region; it will also be paying its respects to his contribution to the world peace in general. This suggestion can be considered as a unanimous act of the management of Pakistan that once peace is attained by bold and magnificent diplomacy; it should be welcomed in the international front.
Pakistan once again emphasizes its policy of peaceful coexistence and cooperation in the region and solving of all disputes as an outcome of dialogue. The current situation in diplomacy, which was followed by President Trump in bringing it back in a time when it was highly needed and its restored use evident, is an example other nation should follow. His work aided in maintaining peace of more than two billion people of South Asia and other regions and in the opinion of the Government of Pakistan he truly deserves and qualifies to be the recipient of the highest peace award of the world.
It is inevitable that the Government of Pakistan hopes that this nomination should be able to arouse international solidarity with the quest to apply diplomacy in resolving problems in conflicts and it should compel other world leaders to march in the step of principled, fearless and successful peace-making.
