Pakistan has announced plans to nominate US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, the BBC reported. They are highlighting the role Islamabad says he played in facilitating ceasefire talks last month between India and Pakistan.

On social media platform X, the Pakistani government said Trump deserved the award "in recognition of his decisive diplomatic intervention and key leadership during the recent India-Pakistan crisis".

India has denied the US acted as a mediator in the ceasefire last month and said it did not want diplomatic intervention from a third party.

Trump has often suggested he should receive the Nobel Peace Prize, which this year will be announced in October.

In May, Trump made a surprise announcement about a ceasefire between India and Pakistan after four days of fighting between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

The Pakistani government said in a statement early Saturday: “President Trump has demonstrated extraordinary strategic foresight and enviable statesmanship through decisive diplomatic engagement with both Islamabad and New Delhi, which has de-escalated a rapidly deteriorating situation.”

“This intervention is a testament to his role as a true peacemaker.”

There was no immediate response from Washington or New Delhi.

Trump has repeatedly said that India and Pakistan ended the conflict after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, and that he used trade as leverage to persuade them to reach an agreement.

Pakistan has confirmed U.S. claims of brokering the ceasefire, but India has denied it.

Last month, Trump said he told India and Pakistan that a ceasefire was necessary to maintain trade with the United States.

“I said, ‘Come on, we’re going to trade hard with you guys [India and Pakistan]. Let’s stop this,” he told reporters.

The Nobel Prize proposal was welcomed by Mushahid Hussain, former chairman of the Senate Defense Committee in Pakistan’s parliament.

“Trump is good for Pakistan,” he told Reuters. “If it satisfies Trump’s ego, so be it. All European leaders are sycophants to him.”

But Maleekha Lodhi, Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States, criticized the move as “unfortunate.”

“A man who supported Israel’s military genocide in Gaza and called Israel’s attack on Iran ‘excellent,’” she wrote on social media X. “This compromises our national dignity,” she added.

On Friday, Trump posted on Truth Social that he had helped broker negotiations between multiple nations, but still: “No, I will not get the Nobel Peace Prize, no matter what I do.”

Trump came into office promising to quickly end the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza wars, although peace agreements in both conflicts have so far eluded him.

He has often criticized Barack Obama for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 after less than eight months as US president. In 2013, Trump called on the Norwegian Nobel Committee to rescind the award. I BGNES