India, Sept. 27 -- Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday reiterated his country's nomination of US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize from the UN General Assembly podium, crediting him with preventing a "catastrophic" war with India during their military confrontation in May.

Using the high-profile UN forum to reinforce Pakistan's earlier nomination, Sharif described Trump as "a man of peace" and claimed the American leader's "timely and decisive" intervention averted full-scale conflict following India's Operation Sindoor.

India has rejected that such mediation ever took place after Trump first made such claims. Prime minister Narendra Modi directly told Trump during a June phone call that no American mediatio...