U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he delivers the State of the Union handle within the Home Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on February 24, 2026
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U.S. President Donald Trump in his State of the Union Deal with on Tuesday (February 24, 2026) night time claimed that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif informed him that 5 million folks would have died had he not intervened within the battle between India and Pakistan within the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror assaults final yr.
“In my first 10 months, I ended eight wars… Cambodia and Thailand… Pakistan and India would have had a nuclear warfare. 35 million folks, stated the Prime Minister of Pakistan, would have died if it weren’t for my involvement,” he claimed.
India has denied any involvement of the USA within the settlement to stop hostilities with Pakistan, sustaining that the request to finish army operations had come from the Director Normal of Army operations in Pakistan.
India had initiated Operation Sindoor on Could 7, 2025, within the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror assault, which claimed the lives of 26 civilians. The operation was a punitive and focused marketing campaign to dismantle the fear infrastructure throughout the Line of Management and deeper inside Pakistan. Within the aftermath of Operation Sindoor, Pakistan initiated a collection of retaliatory drone and UCAV assaults concentrating on key Indian airbases and logistics infrastructure.
In the meantime, in his State of the Union Deal with, the U.S. President stated his administration was “working laborious” to finish “the killing and slaughter between Russia and Ukraine, calling it “a warfare which might have by no means occurred if I have been President.”
Addressing the scenario in Iran, Mr. Trump saved his choices open saying he nonetheless most well-liked a diplomatic answer.
“They’ve already developed missiles that may threaten Europe and our bases abroad, and they’re working to construct missiles that can quickly attain the USA of America. My choice is to resolve this downside by diplomacy. However one factor is for certain, I’ll by no means permit the world’s primary sponsor of terror, which they’re by far, to have a nuclear weapon. Cannot occur,” Mr. Trump stated.
Revealed – February 25, 2026 09:57 am IST