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Iftikhar Ali
NEW YORK, Oct 13 (APP):US President Donald Trump, while en route to attend a historic Middle East ‘peace summit’ in Egypt, pledged Sunday to solve the latest escalation between Afghanistan and Pakistan, proclaiming that he is good at solving wars.
“This will be my eighth war that I’ve solved, and I hear there’s a war now going on between Pakistan and Afghanistan,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One while on his way to Israel — referring to the Gaza ceasefire as his eight.
“I said I’ll have to wait till I get back. I’m doing another one. Because I’m good at solving wars, I’m good at making peace, and it’s an honour to do it. I saved millions of lives, millions of lives,” he added.
Deadly border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan started late on Saturday night and continued into Sunday morning. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that 23 troops were martyred and 200 Taliban and affiliated terrorists were killed when Islamabad responded to aggression by Kabul.
“Because I am good at solving wars…Think about India, Pakistan. Think about some of the wars that were going on for years. We had one going for 31, one going for 32, one going for 37 years, with millions of people being killed in every country, and I got every one of those done, for the most part, within a day. It’s pretty good.”
His remarks position the US leader as a leading figure in resolving complex international disputes.
As regards the Nobel peace prize being awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, Trump said: “In all fairness to the Nobel committee, it was for 2024 … But there are those that say you could make an exception cause a lot of things happened during 2025 that are done and completed and great.
“But I did this not for Nobel, I did this for saving lives,” he added.
On Monday, Trump will land in Israel, where he is expected to meet with families of hostages and address the Knesset (Parliament).
He will later head to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where he will join world leaders at a peace summit on Monday.
The summit, co-chaired by Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, aims “to end the war in the Gaza Strip, enhance efforts to bring peace and stability to the Middle East and usher in a new phase of regional security and stability,” according to Egyptian presidency.
Meanwhile, the United Nations said in New York that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was on way to Egypt to join leaders from more than 20 countries at the Sharm el-Sheikh Peace Summit.