New York, Sept. 22 -- In his address to the 81st session of the UN General Assembly in New York, US President Donald Trump again claimed credit for de-escalating the India-Pakistan conflict, while describing Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif as a "terrific man".

Trump has repeatedly claimed that his diplomatic intervention and threat of tariffs helped avert a major military escalation between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, brokering peace between India and Pakistan following the Operation Sindoor carried out by New Delhi in response to the terror attack in Pahalgam that claimed 26 lives in April last year.

Trump claimed that the Prime Minister of Pakistan personally credited him with saving tens of millions of lives by stopping ...