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PTI, PML-N at odds over Trump’s Gaza plan; divided over Imran Khan’s support for two-state solution

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United States (US) President Donald Trump has announced that Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Field Marshal Asim Munir, among other leaders of Muslim and Arab nations, are on board with his 20-point Gaza peace proposal.

Pakistan has also welcomed the initiative at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), saying that Islamabad would actively participate in the consultative process to support a sustainable resolution to the conflict.

The same, however, didn’t sit well with critics in Pakistan, who accused the government of “selling Palestine out” by supporting the plan that aims to achieve a two-state-solution to the issue.

While several netizens took to social media to accuse the government of “caving under pressure to accept Israel” as “predicted” by former prime minister Imran Khan after his ouster, others are posting excerpts from Khan’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) from 2020 wherein he himself had also advocated for the two-state solution.

“Whoever recognises Israel against the will of the Palestinians will deserve a greater curse than Israel itself, but it should be remembered that Pakistan has always supported the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine,” journalist Iqrar Ul Hassan said while setting the record straight in a post on X.

“Imran Khan, as prime minister, also supported the two-state solution in the UNGA session,” he added.

Journalist and anchor Mansoor Ali Khan also shared an old video of Khan wherein he had accepted the two-state solution.

“Palestine remains a festering wound. A just and lasting settlement is indispensable, for the Middle East and actually the world. Illegal annexations of Palestinian territory, the building of illegal settlements and the imposition of inhuman living conditions on the Palestinian people especially in Gaza cannot bring peace to a troubled region,” Khan had said while addressing the 75th session of the UNGA.

He had gone on to reiterate Pakistan’s long-standing support for a two-state solution in line with the UNGA and UNSC resolutions.

People, however, called out both journalists, saying that Khan had spoken of the state of Palestine and Israel as per UN resolutions that mentioned pre-1967 borders and Al-Quds Al-Sharif as the capital of Palestine, which were missing in Trump’s proposed plan.

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