Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said that the Abraham Accords are “unacceptable, as they come into collision with our fundamental ideology”.
Talking to a private television channel, defence minister denied any progress in this respect, “neither someone has said to us,” he replied, while asked about the US State Department or someone else has contacted for it. “Even our passport not carrying the name of Israel,” he further said.
Khawaja Asif said that the Gaza agreement is still being violated. How could we sit with those, who are not reliable for a single day.
Separately, Opposition alliance Tehreek Tahaffuz Ayeen-e-Pakistan (TTAP) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) have rejected US President Donald Trump’s demand for Muslim countries to sign the Abraham Accords with Israel as part of any agreement to end the war with Iran.
In a statement on Tuesday, TTAP expressed concern over Trump’s demand and urged the incumbent government to take a clear and immediate position on the matter.
The opposition bloc, in the statement, said linking peace agreements to broader regional conditions reflected as a “clear Israeli agenda”.
The TTAP also called for the matter to be discussed in parliament. The statement further argued that countries which had accepted similar agreements had failed to secure a roadmap for an independent Palestinian state or to stop ongoing Israeli violence in Gaza. In a separate statement, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Secretary General Salman Akram Raja rejected Trump’s Abraham Accords move, saying “PTI is committed to a just resolution of the right to statehood of the Palestinian people that provides for an independent, sovereign Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital.” “The Abraham Accords or any other move that causes a diversion from this objective are unacceptable,” it added.
JI Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman described the Abraham Accords as a “document of surrender”. He further said the people of Pakistan would not accept any move aimed at legitimising Israel’s occupation of Jerusalem. “The people of Pakistan will never accept any coercive attempt to legitimise and legalise Israel’s occupation of Jerusalem.