\u2018I like this guy\u2019
\nRaises count of jets shot down to 11; Pakistan will not join ISF to disarm Hamas
\n washington
\nPrime Minister Shehbaz Sharif came in for praise while attending the inaugural summit of the the \u201cBoard of Peace\u201d to deliberate on issues related to Gaza as Pakistan has denied that it will join the International Stabilisation Force to demilitarise Hamas.
\nVarious other world leaders, along with United States President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, are attending the event.
\nAddressing the event, Trump again praised PM Shehbaz. \u201cI like this guy,\u201d he said while recounting the events that led to the ceasefire after last year\u2019s conflict between Pakistan and India in May. Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of the Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir was also praised by the US president.
\n\u201cPrime Minister Sharif, I like this man. There was some fighting going on when I got to know him and your field marshal \u2014 great, great general; great guy. I got to meet the prime minister and h e said in front of our Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, he said: \u2018Do you know no body knows but I believe that President Trump saved 25 millions lives when he stopped the war between us and India.\u2019 You made that statement,\u201d he said while addressing the premier.
\nReferring to the active conflict at the time, he said: \u201cPakistan and India; I got on the phone with both of them and I knew them a little bit, actually I knew PM Modi very well. I got to know Pakistan through a little trade, they were trying to make too good a deal and I got a little upset with them and in the end they got what they wanted and I made a good deal and I got to like them \u2014 the prime minister, the field marshal, who is a tough man, a good serious fighter and I like good fighters actually.\u201d
\nTrump said when he got to know about the conflict, \u201cI saw that Pakistan and India were really going at it and then it got worse and worse; many planes were shot down. I called them, \u2018Listen I\u2019m not doing trade deals with you two guys if you don\u2019t settle this out. They said:\u2019No, no\u2019. I said to both of them: \u2018If you don\u2019t do it, I\u2019m not doing a trade deal. We\u2019re not doing a trade deal.\u2019 They do a lot of business with the US and they sort of softened up all of a sudden, there was a little bit of a pullback by one and the other and all of a sudden we worked out a deal.
\n\u201cI said if you fight, I am going to put up 200% tariffs on each of your countries, which essentially makes you not allowed to do any business. One of them, I won\u2019t say which one, said: \u2018No! You can\u2019t do that.\u2019
\n\u201cThey both wanted to fight. When it came to money, nothing like money, when it came to losing a lot of money, they said: \u2018I guess we don\u2019t want to fight\u2019 and we solved that deal in two to three days. These are two very powerful nations, nuclear nations and I don\u2019t want to say what was going to happen but you know, bad things happened.\u201d
\nTrump said he wanted to thank PM Shehbaz because the conflict was \u201ca very big deal, people have no idea\u201d. \u201cEleven jets were shot down, very expensive jets,\u201d he said, upping his count from thr previous 10 of jets shot down in the conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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