{"id":29448,"date":"2025-11-29T15:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=29448"},"modified":"2025-11-29T15:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:04:04","slug":"dar-dismisses-reports-pakistan-will-join-gaza-peacekeeping-force-to-disarm-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=29448","title":{"rendered":"Dar dismisses reports Pakistan will join Gaza peacekeeping force to disarm Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"
Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar has signalled that Pakistan is ready to contribute troops to a Gaza peacekeeping force if required, but categorically rejected rumours that its forces would play any role in disarming Hamas.<\/p>\n

\u201cA new claim is being floated that this stabilisation force will disarm Hamas. We will provide our force if required, but there will be further consultations, and our force will in no case be used to disarm Hamas,\u201d said Dar during a news briefing in Islamabad on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Dar said that discussions on a proposed international stabilisation force for Gaza began in the United States, and Islamabad had earlier indicated it was open to examining the idea.<\/p>\n

He said Pakistan later suggested that any such force should be created under an international body, adding that Islamabad has already formed a separate eight\u2011nation group dedicated to Gaza.<\/p>\n

“Pakistan supported steps aimed at improving security and humanitarian conditions in the enclave but stressed that the mandate of any mission must be clear and internationally agreed, he added.<\/p>\n

Dar stated that Pakistan would not back any arrangement that could be seen as taking sides in the conflict or undermining Palestinian political actors.<\/p>\n

DPM warns India over its \u201cproxy war\u201d against Pakistan<\/p>\n

Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) accused India of maintaining contact with terrorists involved in the attack on the Jaffer Express, urging New Delhi to end its \u201cproxy war\u201d against Pakistan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe terrorists involved in the Jaffer Express attack were in communication with India,\u201d he said. \u201cIndia should now stop its proxy war. This proxy war is not good for anyone, especially India. Unless terrorism is fully eliminated, peace cannot be established in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dar added that Pakistan\u2019s position stemmed from its belief in the sanctity of human life. \u201cWe belong to a faith in which the killing of one person is akin to the killing of humanity,\u201d he said. \u201cIf terrorists voluntarily abandon this path, that is better. Otherwise the time will come when Pakistan will have to act.\u201d<\/p>\n

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DPM durther said the last 10 to 12 days had been \u201cextremely busy\u201d, marked by significant diplomatic engagements in Moscow, Brussels and Bahrain. He said he departed for Moscow on November 17 to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Heads of Government Council meeting, fulfilling Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif\u2019s earlier commitment that Pakistan would be represented at the summit.<\/p>\n

Dar said Pakistan presented its position on regional connectivity, economic cooperation and trade during both the narrow-format and extended SCO sessions. He proposed that member states use local currencies for mutual transactions and also floated a proposal for an ECO Bank. Eleven decisions were adopted at the summit, after which participating leaders met Russian President Vladimir Putin on November 18. \u201cI reminded him of the invitation for a visit to Pakistan, according to his schedule,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Dar added that the Foreign Office had already shared requests for bilateral meetings with Russian authorities, enabling him to hold separate discussions with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk. Several Russian ministers also joined the meeting with Overchuk.<\/p>\n

He noted that Pakistan\u2019s ambassador in Moscow had been ill with COVID-19 at the time, but said the Foreign Office and the embassy team \u201cremained fully active\u201d. He described the engagements with SCO and Eurasian officials as \u201chighly positive\u201d.<\/p>\n

The delegation reached Brussels on November 19, where Dar said a \u201cconstructive\u201d series of meetings took place. He said a Pakistani representative met the President of the European Union after several years, marking a resumption of high-level contact. He also held an \u201cimportant, warm and candid\u201d meeting with senior EU representative Kia Klaas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis visit helped bridge the gap that had existed in our ties with the European Union,\u201d Dar said, noting that Pakistan-EU negotiations had been stalled since 2021.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar has signalled that Pakistan is ready to contribute troops to a Gaza peacekeeping force if required, but categorically rejected rumours that its forces would play any role in disarming Hamas. \u201cA new claim is being floated that this stabilisation force will disarm Hamas. We will provide our force if required, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}