Pakistan has once reiterated its strong stance that Pakistan will notaccept Israel until there is a solution to the Palestine cause. The issuehas been highlighted pace again as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu claimedin UN General Assembly that Israel is very close to normalization of tieswith Saudi Arabia.
Furthermore top Israeli officials have claimed that 5 or 6 other Muslimcountries will join Saudi Arabia in recognising Israel which sparkedspeculation about Pakistan.
However Pakistan Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Gillani has refuted all suchreports circulating on media.
Earlier in 2021, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan had said his countrywill not recognise Israel until there is a Palestinian state acceptable tothe Palestinians.
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Khan said that Islamabad would not follow suit in recognising Israel as astate, in a thinly veiled reference to the United Arab Emirates whichstruck a United States-brokered deal last week to normalise ties withIsrael.
“Whatever any country does, our position is very clear. And our positionwas made clear by [Pakistan’s founder] Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah …in 1948: that we cannot ever accept Israel as long as Palestinians are notgiven their rights and there is no just settlement,” Khan said.
