According to Radio Pakistan, interim foreign minister Jalil Abbas Jilani on Thursday reiterated Pakistan’s desire for a Palestinian State that is sustainable, independent, and contiguous, with pre-1967 boundaries and Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.
Pakistan’s call for independent Palestinian state: A few days prior, Caretaker Jilani had stated that Pakistani authorities had not recently spoken with Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen.
The Israeli minister had already asserted that he had met with representatives from Muslim countries with which Israel has no official relations. Once Saudi Arabia joins the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan, Cohen claims that six or seven Islamic countries will ratify the Abraham Accords.
The foreign minister emphatically declared that Pakistan’s attitude on the Palestine problem is consistent and that there has been no change in that regard in response to a question during a news conference this afternoon in Islamabad.
He claimed that Pakistan has consistently advocated for respecting people’s right to self-determination, whether it is in Palestine or Kashmir.
In response to a different question, the foreign minister stated that Pakistan expects the Afghan interim government to uphold its promise to the international community not to permit the use of Afghan territory to conduct terrorist acts against any nation.
The Foreign Minister continued by saying that a strategy to deport all illegal foreign nationals from Pakistan has been authorised by the Federal Cabinet and that policy does not specifically target any one nation.
But he was clear that this policy will not apply to officially recognised Afghan refugees already living in Pakistan.
In response to a question, Jalil Abbas Jilani said Pakistan’s relations with Russia are strengthening and that buying oil or other products was not bad because several European and South Asian countries are also trading with Moscow.
“Foreign Minister Addresses Key Issues: CPEC, Regional Concerns, and Kashmir Conflict”
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a transformational initiative for the country, and there is no notion of rolling it back, the foreign minister said, dispelling any perception of a slowdown.
Jalil Abbas Jilani said Pakistan has long spoken out against New Delhi’s role in assassination, espionage, and terrorist activities in South Asian nations and around the world in response to a query about its involvement in the killing of a Sikh activist in Canada.
The foreign minister emphasized that the resolution of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with UN Security Council Resolutions is essential for achieving genuine peace in South Asia, in response to a query about human rights abuses in the illegally occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir by India.