LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman on Saturday denounced the government’s participation in the first meeting of the Board of Peace (BoP) on Gaza, calling the move “unacceptable.”
The JI leader expressed his views while addressing the media in Lahore on Saturday, saying it was “unacceptable at any cost” to ignore the country’s long-established policy on the Palestine issue.
He stressed that since the time of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan’s policy had remained clear and that any deviation from it would be intolerable.
Mr Rehman also opposed any plan to send Pakistani troops to Gaza as part of an international stabilisation force (ISF) envisioned under Trump’s 20-point plan.
The JI chief also expressed scepticism over Trump’s statements about Hamas’s disarmament, questioning how Pakistan could reconcile participation in any such framework with its official stance.
“You will go there under whose command?” Rehman asked.
“When you do not speak openly against America or President Trump even while sitting here, how will forces placed under their command raise their voice against Israel or the United States?”
He maintained that there was no need for Pakistan to become part of the ISF planned for the Palestinian enclave.
Trump pledged $10 billion for Gaza’s reconstruction in this week and brought together representatives of several Muslim-majority countries that offered funding and troops for a proposed ISF.
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