Shehbaz Sharif raises Kashmir issue at UNGA, credits Trump for ‘timely intervention’ in 2025 India-Pakistan conflict

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Published – September 26, 2026 08:57 am IST – United Nations

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif addresses the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at UN headquarters in New York City on September 25, 2026
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Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday (September 25, 2026) used the UN General Assembly podium to credit U.S. President Donald Trump for his "timely intervention" in the 2025 conflict with India, as he again raked up the Kashmir issue in his address at the world organisation.

India had launched Operation Sindoor on May 7 last year, targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam attack that had killed 26 civilians. U.S. President Trump has repeatedly claimed, as recently as in his address to the UN General Assembly this week, that he stopped the war between India and Pakistan. New Delhi has consistently denied any third-party intervention.

Mr. Sharif thanked Mr. Trump for his "resolute and visionary leadership”, saying that the American leader’s "timely intervention” saved hundreds of millions of lives in South Asia.

In his about 23-minute address, Mr. Sharif also raised the issue of Kashmir, saying that to ensure South Asia never reaches that precipice of the conflict of 2025 again, a just and fair solution to the Kashmir issue is required.

India has repeatedly rejected Pakistan’s assertions on Kashmir made at the UNGA forum as well as on other UN platforms, saying that the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has been, is, and will always remain an integral and inalienable part of India.

As is done every year, India will field one of its youngest diplomats serving in its Permanent Mission to the UN to exercise its Right of Reply and respond to the Pakistani leader’s UNGA address.

In his speech, Mr. Sharif also spoke about the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), which India has said will be held in abeyance until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably ends its support for cross-border and all other forms of terrorism.

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India decided to put the IWT in abeyance as part of a series of punitive diplomatic and economic measures unveiled soon after the Pahalgam terror attack.

In his address, Mr. Sharif also touted Pakistan’s efforts to broker peace between the U.S. and Iran in the ongoing conflict in West Asia.

“Pakistan chose to act swiftly through concerted efforts. Pakistan successfully brought Washington and Tehran under one roof in Islamabad. From the Islamabad talks to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, many historic steps were taken to bring an end to this serious conflict,” he said.

Mr. Sharif repeatedly thanked the Pakistan Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of the Army Staff, Field Marshal Asim Munir, in his address, crediting his "relentless efforts” to help create “space for diplomacy under exceptionally difficult and challenging circumstances.”

Published – September 26, 2026 08:57 am IST

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