US President Donald Trump has, in a stunning claim, said Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif would have been killed if not for his intervention during Operation Sindoor in May last year.Addressing the 2026 State of the Union, Trump said, “In my first 10 months, I ended eight wars…. Pakistan and India would have had a nuclear war…. 35 million people, said the Pakistan PM, would have died if it were not for my involvement.”India has consistently denied that any nuclear threat prevailed during Operation Sindoor (May 7-10) last year. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, in an interview to an Indian news channel at the Davos summit last month, said, “There was no indication of any involvement of nuclear weapons in this conflict, which was, of course, of a conventional nature.”Trump’s claims on intervening in the India-Pakistan conflict come only days after he had said “11 very expensive jets were shot down during the war”. Trump has repeatedly claimed that he played the peace broker between the two countries, something India has firmly denied saying de-escalation was reached following bilateral DGMO-level talks.Speaking at the Board of Peace meeting last week, Trump had said he threatened to impose 200 per cent tariff on both countries, and that the two warring nations stopped military exchanges as “there’s nothing like money”. He had further claimed that he had called up Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying he would not trade with New Delhi.