The subtext behind Pakistan doing it, and doing it now, is to try and bait Trump away from getting involved with Pakistan's ally: Iran.
If Trump does anything to Iran, Pakistan is going to make a big fuss about doubling-back on their nomination.
Does the nomination mean anything? No. Is he going to get the award? No. It's entirely a diplomatic maneuver for a very specific goal of keeping the US out of Iran.
Not sure if worst, but quite likely the stupidest. I'm no genius myself, but the amount of utter (and aggressive!) stupidity that surrounds us is so exhausting...
Pakistan is playing some 5-D chess, here. Butter up the raging narcissist by flattering his ego, in the hopes that he backs down on Iran or risks losing his Nobel prize nomination.
Foreign countries know exactly what they're doing this time around when it comes to manipulating Trump. I think last time they were surprised just how easy and stupid it was and now Saudia Arabia is just like "yeah throw some McDonald's paint on a trailer and give him a happy meal, he'll sign whatever we want".
It’s literally his MO either through incompetence or hubris, he consistently plants landlines for both himself and others:
Crash out of the JCPOA despite Iranian compliance and the EU trying to maintain the deal without the US, setting the stage for the current crisis
Completely disregard the Palestinian question in the Abraham Accords, signaling to Hamas(/Iran) that the window is closing and soon the whole Gulf will be onboard with permanent Israeli domination of Palestine
Give the Taliban whatever they want in the Doha Accords, but in a timeline that forces it to be the next President’s problem
Publicly declare he’ll solve Ukraine-Russia in 100 days… signaling the limits of his patience, and that Putin only needs to delay, delay, delay
As as to be said somehow literally every time these headlines are published, nominations for any Nobel prize are kept secret and announcing that you've submitted a nomination if anything makes them less likely to be accepted as it harms the nomination by harming the image of the nominator. Anyone can say they've nominated anyone for a Nobel Peace Prize and they can't be proven or disproven for 50 years.
Oh and "Pakistan" can't nominate anyone for a Nobel Prize. All you need to be a nominator for the Nobel Peace Prize is to be an elected official or a university professor, but you do have to be a person. The likely of a headline not bothering to distinguish between a person and their 250 million people nation seems to increase linearly with distance east from the Greenwich meridian.
That's some smooth manipulation right there. He just complained that he should have won it and they slyly nominated him. Expect lots of great favors for Pakistan going forward.
Is it still a respected thing? I was under the impression it's not
Obama didn't do anything except be elected and he was nominated. Can't remember if he won it though but that seems like pretty weak criteria to be nominated.
Obama did win, and it was for his commitments to green energy and climate change. It's widely considered bad to award people before they follow through to the end, especially for the nobel committee. I think they were trying to use it as further motivation to keep those commitments, but if anything it's usually the opposite.. at least when they give them to sociopath politicians. Could definitely be worse than Obama though.
Edit: Reading more on it, it looks like it was also for nuclear non-proliferation. I guess both are pretty valid awards for Obama, even if he could have done far more, especially in his first two years.