US President Donald Trump has said that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told him that 35 million people would have died if it were not for his intervention in stopping the war between India and Pakistan. ADVERTISEMENT“In my first 10 months, I ended eight wars... including Pakistan and India, which would have been a nuclear war. Thirty-five million people, said the Prime Minister of Pakistan, would have died if it were not for my involvement,” Trump said. On earlier occasions, Trump had cited lower figures, including 25 million and later 10 million lives. Our country has never been stronger,” the president said in his second State of the Union address of his second term in the White House.

Source: The Telegraph February 25, 2026 05:39 UTC