US president praises PM Shehbaz Sharif, Field Marshal Asim Munir as \u201cgreat people\u201d
\n washington
\nUS President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would \u201cquickly resolve\u201d the Pakistan-Afghanistan conflict, praising Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Field Marshal Asim Munir as \u201cgreat people.\u201d
\nTrump made the remarks while addressing the signing ceremony of a Thailand-Cambodia peace deal on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur.
\nBorder crossings between the two countries have remained closed since October 11, following clashes earlier this month that killed dozens on both sides in the worst fighting since the Taliban\u2019s 2021 takeover of Kabul.
\nThe border clashes were triggered after Islamabad demanded that Kabul control militants who attack Pakistan across their shared border, saying they operated from havens in Afghanistan. A ceasefire was agreed in talks hosted by Qatar and Turkiye last weekend and is holding between the two sides.
\nDuring the second round of talks in Istanbul, Pakistan has handed over a comprehensive counterterrorism plan to the Afghan Taliban, sources said.
\nReferring to recent border tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Trump said he was confident of helping the two sides reach peace.
\n\u201c\u2026 we\u2019re averaging one a month. There is only one left, although I heard that Pakistan and Afghanistan have started up. But I\u2019ll get that solved very quickly. I know them both. And the Field Marshal, and the Prime Minister are great people, and I have no doubt we\u2019re going to get that done quickly.\u201d
\nThe US president further said he viewed peacebuilding as a priority. \u201cIf I can take time and save millions of lives, that\u2019s really a great thing,\u201d he remarked, adding that, unlike other presidents, he focused on ending wars rather than starting them.
\n\u201cI can\u2019t think of any president who ever solved one war. They start wars. They don\u2019t solve them,\u201d he added.
\nMeanwhile, the leaders of Thailand and Cambodia signed an enhanced ceasefire deal on Sunday in the presence of Trump, whose intervention in their fierce border conflict earned him a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.
\nThe agreement builds on a truce signed three months ago after Trump called the then-leaders of the two countries, urging them to end hostilities, or risk their respective trade talks with Washington being put on hold.
\nBoth sides blame each other for starting the five-day exchange of rockets and heavy artillery, which killed at least 48 people and temporarily displaced an estimated 300,000 people in their worst fighting in recent history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
US president praises PM Shehbaz Sharif, Field Marshal Asim Munir as \u201cgreat people\u201d washington US President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would \u201cquickly resolve\u201d the Pakistan-Afghanistan conflict, praising Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Field Marshal Asim Munir as \u201cgreat people.\u201d Trump made the remarks while addressing the signing ceremony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-510841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n