Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif 'lauds' Trump for his role to bring 'peace' in South Asia

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif lavished praise on US President Donald Trump at the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace, crediting him with preventing a potential India-Pakistan war - even as he failed to secure a bilateral meeting with the American leader during his Washington visit. Even his meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State Department could not materialize. It is understood that the visiting Pakistani delegation pushed hard for bilateral meetings with Trump and Rubio. Addressing the multilateral gathering, Sharif said Trump's intervention had "potentially averted loss of tens of millions of people" and declared: "You have truly proved to be a man of peace."