Trump showers praise on Pakistan’s ‘Very Extraordinary Men’

US President Donald Trum has praised Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir, for hosting the US-Iran talks in Islamabad, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Monday.

Trump said the meeting, which ended without a deal between the two countries to end the six-week war in the Middle East, took place through the "kind and very competent leadership" of Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir.

"They are very extraordinary men, and continuously thank me for saving 30 to 50 million lives in what would have been a horrendous war with India. I always appreciate hearing that - The amount of humanity spoken of is incomprehensible," Trump said on Truth Social.

The US president has repeatedly claimed credit for stopping the Pakistan-India conflict last year.

Trump frequently refers to Asim Munir as his "favourite field marshal" and has met him at least two times at the White House. 

Pakistan helped Iran and the US to come to the negotiating table for their highest-level face-to-face talks in decades to end weeks of war, with PM Shehbaz Sharif saying Field Marshal Asim Munir played a "key" role.

"Field Marshal Munir through tireless effort, played a key and historic role in extinguishing the flames of war and in bringing both parties to the negotiating table," Shehbaz Sharif said in a televised address a few hours before the talks began on Saturday.

Field Marshal Asim Munir also received and saw off the US and Iranian delegations at the airport.

The weekend's marathon talks, however, ended with US Vice-President JD Vance, who was leading the American delegation, announcing he was leaving without a deal.

While Trump and Vance blamed Iran's refusal to surrender its nuclear ambitions for the collapse of talks, Tehran called the American demands "unreasonable".