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Pakistan’s recent willingness to cooperate with Washington’s so-called 20-point Gaza plan is not a minor development. On the surface, it appears pragmatic in aligning with international calls for ceasefire and humanitarian relief. Yet beneath this language lies a more dangerous implication of acceptance of the two-state solution, which permanently legitimizes Israel’s existence. For a state founded on the principle of providing a fortress for Muslims abandoned by the world, this marks a potential betrayal of its very raison d’être (Qasmi, 2017).
History warns us that symbolic organizations such as the OIC (founded 1969) and the Arab League (founded 1945) issued countless condemnations but failed to prevent massacres in Palestine, Iraq, or Syria (Khan, 2020). Pakistan must avoid becoming another cog in the machinery of external frameworks be they drafted in Washington or Brussels, that consistently fail the Ummah.
Instead, this is the time to translate strength into sovereignty. Pakistan brings nuclear deterrence (Khan, 2012), strategic geography, and credibility among Muslim masses. Combined with Gulf resources, Turkish defense innovation, and Iranian resilience, a Muslim Union could reclaim agency rather than outsource destiny.
The choice is stark between capitulation through recognition or sovereignty through unity.
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