Pakistan’s top leadership will decide on deployment of troops in Gaza: FM Dar

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Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar speaks during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025, at U.N. headquarters.

Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar speaks throughout a Security Council assembly on the United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025, at U.N. headquarters.
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Pakistan’s top leadership will decide on the deployment of troops as half of the peacekeeping power of the Muslim nations in Gaza beneath the just lately introduced peace deal to finish the bloodshed in the area, Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar stated on Tuesday (September 30, 2025).

Mr. Dar addressed a press convention the place he was requested if Pakistan would ship troops to Gaza beneath the peace plan introduced by President Donald Trump on Monday.

He talked at size in regards to the effort to deliver a ceasefire and supreme peace in Gaza, together with the preparatory assembly of leaders of eight Muslim nations with President Trump on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly session in New York final week.

“The idea is to have an independent Palestinian government of technocrats there. It will be overseen by an international oversight body, which, too, will mostly comprise Palestinians…,” he said.

“The force [here] is a peacekeeping force. On the ground, there will be Palestinian law-enforcement agencies… there will be [separate] forces supporting them. Indonesia has offered 20,000 troops for that. I am sure Pakistan’s leadership will also be making a decision on this,” he said.

“We have asked them to document the arrangement, whatever it is, at the [UN] Security Council,” he added.

Meeting with Trump

Giving some particulars of the assembly with Mr. Trump, he stated the aims had been to strive for a ceasefire in Gaza, make preparations for sending humanitarian help, cease the compelled displacement of Palestinians and make preparations for the return of the displaced Gazans.

He stated that the Muslim chief additionally needed to have a plan for Gaza’s reconstruction and to cease Israel’s makes an attempt to annex the West Bank.

Donald Trump attends a multilateral meeting with leaders of Qatar, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt United Arab of Emirates and Saudi Arabia, during the United Nations General Assembly

Donald Trump attends a multilateral assembly with leaders of Qatar, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt United Arab of Emirates and Saudi Arabia, throughout the United Nations General Assembly
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AP

“When these objectives were conveyed to him (Trump) and he was asked to work with us on achieving them,” Mr. Dar stated, including that the US president then proposed that his staff would devise a “workable solution” with the international ministers of the eight Muslim nations that had been half of the assembly.

But he stopped quick of offering any additional particulars, saying that it was determined to maintain the small print as “classified”.

Mr. Dar additionally stated he had obtained messages from the Saudi international minister in regards to the peace plan for ending the bloodshed.

“He instructed me that 5 nations had reached a consensus on a joint assertion [regarding the Gaza plan] and that our settlement was wanted on this matter as nicely, and that they’d additionally reached out to Indonesia and the UAE.

“I then consulted the international secretary and proposed some modifications. I spoke to the Saudi international minister once more…as I had some objections… He then despatched me a revised model…and the joint assertion was launched,” Mr. Dar added.

Mr. Dar said that the Palestinian Authority also welcomed the statement while acknowledging that some people had some reservations and were criticising it.

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