India, Oct. 14 -- US President Donald Trump halted his speech at a Middle East peace summit in Egypt on Monday to ask Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to say a few words, with the Pakistani leader repeating Trump's claim about having stopped hostilities between India and Pakistan in May and brokered a ceasefire.

Though Trump praised a number of world leaders who were either on stage or in the audience at the conclusion of the Sharm El-Sheikh Peace Summit, including UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, Sharif was the only one he invited to speak in the middle of his own speech.

Trump began by praising Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir, whom he described as his "favour...