India, Oct. 15 -- Top Democratic leader Rahm Emanuel has blamed President Donald Trump's ego for having "thrown away 40 years of meticulous strategic planning" with India over his Nobel Peace Prize desire. He also raised serious questions over Trump's coziness towards Pakistan, saying his son was getting money from Islamabad.

"He threw it all away because Modi would not say that the President deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for the ceasefire (with Pakistan)," Emanuel, a former aide of Barack Obama who also served as ambassador to Japan during Trump's administration until recently.

India has maintained that the truce to pause the Operation Sindoor - its action against terror bases to avenge an attack in Kashmir - was its own call after a re...