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ISLAMABAD  –  Pakistan yesterday reiterated its firm support for a peaceful resolution of Ukraine conflict.

At the UN Security Council meeting, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said his country stands ever ready to support all efforts towards that end.

He stressed the need for adopting a path of inclusive and constructive diplomacy, involving key regional and international stakeholders to promote trust and build confidence to pave the way for a just and lasting peace. He said Istanbul talks must be built upon and taken forward with genuine and reciprocal commitment to peace. Earlier, Pakistan’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations hosted a well-attended diplomatic reception to formally mark the conclusion of Pakistan’s month-long presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for July 2025. The event, hosted by Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN, Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, drew an impressive turnout of high-ranking diplomats, senior UN officials, prominent media representatives, and members of civil society.

In his remarks, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad expressed sincere gratitude to his fellow envoys, senior officials, and colleagues at the United Nations for their cooperation and support throughout Pakistan’s presidency. 

He extended special thanks to Ambassador Munir Akram for his presence, acknowledging his distinguished contributions to Pakistan’s multilateral engagements over the years. During its tenure, Pakistan presided over several key deliberations and tabled two signature initiatives that were widely acknowledged for their thematic relevance and multilateral impact.

The first was a high-level open debate on “Promoting International Peace and Security through Multilateralism and Peaceful Settlement of Disputes.”

The session, chaired by Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Ishaq Dar, culminated in the unanimous adoption of a Pakistan-sponsored resolution by all 15 Council members.

The resolution underscored the obligation of UN member states to ensure the full and effective implementation of UNSC resolutions aimed at peaceful dispute resolution, a hallmark of Pakistan’s principled foreign policy.

The second major event was a high-level briefing on enhancing cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

This session too concluded with the issuance of a Presidential Statement, reaffirming the importance of institutional partnerships in addressing global challenges.

In addition to these initiatives, Pakistan also presided over the quarterly open debate on the Situation in the Middle East, including the Question of Palestine, a longstanding diplomatic priority for Islamabad, reflecting its steadfast support for the Palestinian cause.

Pakistan commenced its current two-year term as a non-permanent member of the UNSC in January 2025, and will continue its term until the end of 2026, reinforcing its global diplomatic engagement through active participation in peace and security efforts at the highest multilateral platform.

WASHINGTON:

President Donald Trump’s administration is actively discussing with Azerbaijan the possibility of bringing that nation and some Central Asian allies into the Abraham Accords, hoping to deepen their existing ties with Israel, according to five sources with knowledge of the matter.

Azerbaijan and every country in Central Asia, by contrast, already have longstanding relations with Israel, meaning that an expansion of the accords to include them would largely be symbolic, focusing on strengthening ties in areas like trade and military cooperation, they said.

The original Abraham Accords, inked between Israel and the four Muslim majority countries in the Middle East and Africa in 2020 and 2021 during Trump’s first term in office, centred on normalising diplomatic relations with Israel after US mediation.

However, a soaring death toll in Gaza and starvation in the enclave due to blockade of aid and military operations by Israel have buoyed Arab fury, complicating Trump’s efforts to add more Muslim-majority countries to the Abraham Accords.

The war in Gaza, where over 60,000 people including tens of thousands of women and children have died, has provoked global anger. Canada, France and the United Kingdom have announced plans in recent days to recognise an independent Palestine.

Another key sticking point is Azerbaijan’s conflict with its neighbour Armenia, since the Trump administration considers a peace deal between the two Caucasus nations as a precondition to join the Abraham Accords, three sources said.

While Trump officials have publicly floated several potential entrants into the accords, the talks centred on Azerbaijan are among the most structured and serious, the sources said. Two of the sources argued a deal could be reached within months or even weeks.

Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, Steve Witkoff, travelled to Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, in March to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. A key Witkoff aide, Aryeh Lightstone also met Aliyev later in the spring in part to discuss the Abraham Accords, three of the sources said.

As part of the discussions, Azerbaijani officials have contacted officials in Central Asian nations, including in nearby Kazakhstan, to gauge their interest in a broader Abraham Accords expansion, those sources said.

WASHINGTON:

US President Donald Trump’s latest wave of tariffs on exports from dozens of trading partners sent global stock markets tumbling on Friday and countries and companies scrambling to seek ways to strike better deals.

Pakistan, which exported about $4.1 billion worth of apparel to the United States in the 2024 fiscal year, secured a tariff rate of 19%, but industry figures were cautious about the immediate impact.

“Considering India’s lower production costs and the likelihood of it negotiating reduced tariffs in the near term, Pakistan is unlikely to either gain or lose a meaningful share in the apparel segment,” Musadaq Zulqarnain, founder and chair of Interloop Limited — a leading Pakistani exporter.

“If the current reciprocal tariff structure holds, significant investment is likely to flow into DR-CAFTA countries and Egypt,” he said, referring to a trade agreement between the US and a group of Caribbean and Central American countries.

Elsewhere in South Asia, Sri Lanka also secured a 20% tariff rate from the US, which accounted for 40% of its apparel exports of $4.8 billion last year. “The devil will be in the details as there are questions over issues such as trans-shipment, but overall it’s mostly good,” Yohan Lawrence, secretary general of the Joint Apparel Associations Forum, a Sri Lankan industry body, told Reuters.

Bangladesh has negotiated a 20% tariff on exports to the US, down from the 37% initially proposed by US President Donald Trump, bringing relief to exporters in the world’s second-largest garment supplier.

The new rate is in line with those offered to other major apparel-exporting countries such as Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Pakistan and Indonesia.

India, which failed to reach a comprehensive agreement with Washington, will face a steeper 25% tariff.

As Trump presses ahead with plans to reorder the global economy with the highest tariff rates since the early 1930s,

Switzerland, “stunned” by 39% tariffs, sought more talks, as did India, hit with a 25% rate. New tariffs also include a 35% duty on many goods from Canada, 50% for Brazil, 20% for Taiwan, which said its rate was “temporary” and it expected to reach a lower figure.

The presidential order listed higher import duty rates of 10% to 41% starting in a week’s time for 69 trading partners, taking the US effective tariff rate to about 18%, from 2.3% last year, according to analysts at Capital Economics.

US stocks took an immediate hit. By early afternoon on Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had dropped 0.96% to 43,708.00, the S&P 500 1.21% to 6,262.88 and the Nasdaq Composite 1.65% to 20,773.64.

Markets were also reacting to a disappointing jobs report. Data showed US job growth slowed more than expected in July while the prior month’s data was revised sharply lower, pointing to a slowdown in the labor market. Global shares stumbled, with Europe’s STOXX 600 down 1.89% on the day and 2.5% on the week, on track for its biggest weekly drop since Trump announced his first major wave of tariffs on April 2.

Trump’s new tariffs have created yet more uncertainty, with many details unclear. They are set to take effect on Aug 7 at 0401 GMT, a White House official said. Trump administration officials defended the president’s approach. “The uncertainty with respect to tariffs … was critical to getting the leverage that we needed to create the circumstance in which the president could create the trade deals we’ve seen over the last few weeks, which have been nothing short of monumental,” Council of Economic Advisers Chair Stephen Miran said on CNBC.

The European Union, which struck a framework deal with Trump on Sunday, is still awaiting more Trump orders to deliver on agreed carve-outs, including on cars and aircraft, EU officials said, saying the latest executive orders did not cover that.

Also, it is unclear how the administration intends to define and police the transshipment restrictions, which threaten 40% levies on any exporter deemed to have tried to mask goods from a higher-tariffed originator, such as China, as their own product.

Trump’s tariff rollout also comes amid evidence they have begun driving up prices. US Commerce Department data released Thursday showed prices for home furnishings and durable household equipment jumped 1.3% in June, the biggest gain since March 2022.

NO WINNERS?

Countries hit with hefty tariffs said they will seek to negotiate with the US in hopes of getting a lower rate. Switzerland said it would push for a “negotiated solution” with the US “It’s a massive shock for the export industry and for the whole country. We are really stunned,” said Jean-Philippe Kohl, deputy director of Swissmem, representing Switzerland’s mechanical and electrical engineering industries.

South Africa’s Trade Minister Parks Tau said he was seeking “real, practical interventions” to defend jobs and the economy against the 30% U.S. tariff it faces. Southeast Asian countries, however, breathed a sigh of relief after the US tariffs on their exports that were lower than threatened and leveled the playing field with a rate of about 19% across the region’s biggest economies. Thailand’s finance minister said a reduction from 36% to 19% would help his country’s economy.

“It helps maintain Thailand’s competitiveness on the global stage, boosts investor confidence and opens the door to economic growth, increased income and new opportunities,” Pichai Chunhavajira said.

Australian products could become more competitive in the US market, helping businesses boost exports, Trade Minister Don Farrell said, after Trump kept the minimum tariff rate of 10% for Australia.

ISLAMABAD:

Pakistan will continue to pursue strategic partnership with China, dismissing the perception that its close ties with the United States may come at the expense of Beijing.

Two statements on Friday — one from the Foreign Office and the other from the ISPR — delivered a clear message that Pakistan’s relationship with China was “unique” and both sides would support each other irrespective of the shifting strategic dynamics.

Since the unprecedented reset in the relationship between Pakistan and the US, there have been murmurs and skeptics who fear that Washington’s closeness might persuade Islamabad to maintain distance from China.

“I will not agree with this perception” Foreign Office spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan replied emphatically. “China is a very close friend and iron brother. We enjoy a strategic partnership spread over decades. It’s a unique relationship between two friendly neighboring countries and has nothing to do with what kind of relations we pursue with other countries.”

“Pakistan-China relations are based on the principles of international law and UN Charter. Our relations remain robust and two sides are working to sustain the positive momentum,” he added.

Earlier, ISPR said a ceremony was held at the GHQ to commemorate the 98th founding anniversary of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China.

Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Jiang Zaidong was the chief guest while in attendance were Major General Wang Zhong, Defence Attaché, officials from the Chinese Embassy, and senior military officers from the tri-services of Pakistan.

Field Marshal Gen Syed Asim Munir, Chief of Army Staff, extended a warm welcome to the Chinese guests and congratulated the PLA on its 98th founding anniversary. He lauded the PLA’s pivotal role in China’s defence, security, and nation-building.

The COAS underscored the strength and strategic significance of Pakistan-China relations, emphasizing that the bond between the two nations is unique, time-tested, and exceptionally resilient amid evolving regional and global challenges.

The Field Marshal highlighted that the Pakistan-China strategic relationship exemplifies mutual trust, unwavering support, and shared commitment. He stressed that despite shifting strategic dynamics, the friendship between the two nations has remained steadfast and unshakable.

Concluding his address, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir reaffirmed that the Pakistan Army and the PLA are true brothers-in-arms. He emphasized that their enduring partnership will continue to play a pivotal role in promoting regional stability and safeguarding shared strategic interests.

Addressing the gathering, the Chinese Ambassador expressed his sincere gratitude to the COAS for hosting the event commemorating the PLA’s 98th anniversary. He acknowledged the steadfast role of Pakistan’s armed forces in the fight against terrorism and reaffirmed China’s unwavering support for and commitment to its strategic partnership with Pakistan.

HELSINKI: Finland’s President Alexander Stubb has said he is ready to approve a recognition of a Palestinian state if the government moves forward with such a proposal, after many countries, including France and Canada, pledged to recognise the state alongside the 80th UN General Assembly in September.

“The decisions by France, the United Kingdom and Canada reinforce the trend towards recognising Palestine as part of efforts to breathe new life into the peace process,” Stubb said in a post to X.

“If I receive a proposal to recognise the Palestinian state, I am prepared to approve it,” Stubb said, deploring an “inhumane” situation in Gaza.

Finland’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo on Friday reiterated Helsinki’s support for a two-state solution, without specifying whether the government was ready to recognise a Palestinian state.

Published in Dawn, August 2nd, 2025

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of two nuclear submarines, in an extraordinary escalation of what had been an online war of words with a Russian official over Ukraine and tariffs.

The US president and Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s security council, have been sparring on social media for days. But Trump’s post on his Truth Social platform abruptly took that spat into the very real – and rarely publicised – sphere of nuclear forces.

“Based on the highly provocative statements,” Trump said he had “ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that.”

“Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences, I hope this will not be one of those instances,” the 79-year-old Republican posted.

The nuclear sabre rattling came against the backdrop of a deadline set by Trump for the end of next week for Russia to take steps to ending the Ukraine war or face unspecified new sanctions.

Despite the pressure from Washington, Russia’s onslaught against its pro-Western neighbor continues to unfold at full-bore.

Trump did not say in his post whether he meant nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed submarines. He also did not elaborate on the deployment locations, which are kept secret by the US military.

The United States and Russia control the vast majority of the world’s nuclear weaponry, and Washington keeps nuclear-armed submarines on permanent patrol as part of its so-called nuclear triad of land, sea and air-launched weapons.

Trump also did not refer specifically to what Medvedev had said to prompt his order.

Published in Dawn, August 2nd, 2025

• Witkoff holds talks with Netanyahu
• HRW says Israel using starvation as a weapon of war
• Author David Grossman calls Israel’s Gaza campaign ‘genocide’

GAZA CITY: President Donald Trump’s special envoy inspected a US-backed food distribution centre in war-torn Gaza on Friday, as the UN rights office reported that Israeli forces had killed hundreds of hungry Palestinians waiting for aid.

Meanwhile, award-winning Israeli author David Grossman called his country’s campaign in Gaza “genocide” and said he was using the term with a “broken heart”.

The visit by Steve Witkoff came as a report from global advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) also accused Israeli forces of presiding over “regular bloodbaths” close to the US-backed aid points.

The UN’s rights office in the Palestinian territories said at least 1,373 people had been killed seeking aid in Gaza since May 27 — 105 of them in the last two days of July.

“Most of these killings were committed by the Israeli military,” the UN office said, breaking down the death toll into 859 killed near the US-backed food sites and 514 along routes used by UN and aid agency convoys.

The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, posted on X that he and Witkoff had visited Gaza “to learn the truth” about the private aid sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is supported by the United States.

“We received briefings from IDF (the Israeli military) and spoke to folks on the ground. GHF delivers more than one million meals a day, an incredible feat!” Huckabee said.

The foundation, on its own X account, posted that it had been a “privilege and honor” to host Witkoff and Huckabee as the group delivered its 100-millionth meal in Gaza, fulfilling Trump’s “call to lead with strength, compassion and action”.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said 11 people were killed by Israeli fire and air strikes on Friday, including two who were waiting near an aid distribution site run by GHF.

‘Beyond imagination’

In its report on the GHF centres on Friday, Human Rights Watch accused the Israeli military of illegally using starvation as a weapon of war.

“Israeli forces are not only deliberately starving Palestinian civilians, but they are now gunning them down almost every day as they desperately seek food for their families,” said Belkis Wille, associate crisis and conflict director at Human Rights Watch.

Witkoff meets Netanyahu

After arriving in Israel, Witkoff held talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over how to resolve the ongoing war, feed desperate civilians and free the remaining Israeli prisoners.

In a recent video, German-Israeli prisoner Rom Braslavski, 21, while watching recent news footage of the crisis in Gaza pleaded with the Israeli authorities to secure his release.

‘Genocide’

In the meantime, award-winning Israeli author David Grossman called his country’s campaign in Gaza “genocide” and said he was using the term with a “broken heart”.

“For many years, I refused to use that term: ‘genocide’,” the prominent writer and peace activist told Italian daily La Repubblica in an interview published on Friday.

“But now, after the images I have seen and after talking to people who were there, I can’t help using it.” Grossman told the paper he was using the word “with immense pain and with a broken heart.”

He also won Israel’s top literary prize in 2018, the Israel Prize for Literature, for his work spanning more than three decades.

Published in Dawn, August 2nd, 2025

IF one wants to understand how extreme and religiously fuelled nationalism can lead to damage and devastation, we need only look at the example of two leaders — India’s Narendra Modi and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Indian prime minister’s Hindu supremacist ideas, which he has pursued at least from his days of sponsoring pogroms when he was chief minister of Gujrat, have fostered a delusional Hindutva identity. His belief is pushed by every government institution. A purged media tows the ruling BJP’s party line.

In Israel, the genocidal PM Netanyahu has killed tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians in the process of claiming all of Gaza for his state and pursuing a belief that Jews are entitled to the land. He, too, has cracked down on media and purged government institutions of his opponents. Recently, the New York Times detailed how Netanyahu prolonged the Gaza war in order to extend his own time in power.

However, recent events suggest that the edifice of lies and bloodthirsty greed may finally be crumbling in the case of both leaders. Ironically, one indication of this lies in the words of another authoritarian leader. The mercurial US President Donald Trump recently went against Netanyahu by reiterating that the people of Gaza were experiencing starvation. He also denounced India’s “obnoxious tariff regime” and imposed 25 per cent duties on all Indian goods, essentially rolling his eyes at the bromance Modi had boasted about.

This week, the argument over whether India faces a foreign policy debacle began in the Lok Sabha which debated the topic of “India’s strong, successful and decisive Operation Sindoor in response to the terrorist attack in Pahalgam”.

Despite the self-congratulatory name given to the debate, facts about Operation Sindoor were finally said out aloud. The truth-teller, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi underscored facts the rest of the world already knows.

India and Israel are starting to feel the effects of their wrongdoings.

He pointed out, for instance, that Pakistan had indeed taken down five Indian aircraft and that the government had pushed Pakistan and China into a close military relationship.

His speech also implied that Modi had used the military not as a tool of defence but as a means to prop up domestic support — most of the world already knew that the intention behind Operation Sindoor had a lot to do with Modi wanting to whet nationalist fervour and thus support for himself. Online polls taken after Gandhi’s speech showed that the opposition leader had been listened to by a significantly larger number of people than Modi’s speech.

Such an indictment of the Modi government’s foreign policy may have been forgotten had the Trump administration not slapped enhanced tariffs on India and even punished Indian companies found buying Iranian oil. To really get at India, the American president added that India now had a “dead economy”.

It is becoming increasingly clear that India has been kicked to the kerb not just by China but also by the US. While Modi’s virtually state-controlled media is unlikely to fully admit to the tremendous setback that this represents for India, it is likely that the economic interests of that country will begin to squirm in a way that they have not before. In brief, India has been left in a supplicant’s position before both the existing and ascendant superpower.

Netanyahu is also losing. France, Canada and the UK have or are about to recognise the State of Palestine. Second, the entire world is increasingly becoming united on the position that the Israeli state is committing genocide in Gaza and is busy in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Ev­­­en Israel’s own human rights or­­ganisations have begun to ack­now­ledge that Israel is carrying out ge­­nocide.

The New York Times piece mentioned earli­­er in this column also underscored how Netanyahu rejected a proposal in April through which the war could have ended (the Israeli state would then have been recognised by Saudi Arabia) simply because he needed to prolong the war so he would not have to face trial on account of the criminal charges against him.

The cases of both PMs reveal the limits of bloodthirsty religious nationalist leaders. If domestic politics were all there was to consider, feeding their publics delusions would continue to deliver. This is not the case; countries ultimately must deal with other countries and no one likes to associate with people who think they are somehow inherently chosen by a higher power to be superior and special.

In this case, the whole world is telling both India and Israel to withdraw and take their delusional self-importance, entitlement and sense of supremacy with them.

The writer is an attorney teaching constitutional law and political philosophy.

rafia.zakaria@gmail.com

Published in Dawn, Aug 2nd, 2025

IDF Chief Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir pleaded with cabinet ministers during a meeting this week to present a strategy for how they want the army to proceed amid the standstill in hostage talks, Channel 12 news reported Friday, highlighting the government’s lack of a clear game plan, as Jerusalem’s diplomatic standing plummets due to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Israel has reportedly considered annexing parts of Gaza in an attempt to pressure Hamas to release hostages, but no decision has been made yet. Strategy was discussed during US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff’s meetings in Jerusalem on Thursday.

Visiting troops in the Gaza Strip, Zamir said he assessed “that in the coming days we will know whether we will be able to reach a partial deal to release our hostages.”

“If not, the fighting will continue unabated,” Zamir added.

Hostage talks have been at an impasse since last week when Israel and the US pulled their negotiators from Doha due to frustration with Hamas’s response to the latest proposal for a partial hostage deal.

Arab mediators have told The Times of Israel that while Hamas’s response slowed progress that had been made, the gaps are still bridgeable.

A senior Israeli official familiar with the talks told The Times of Israel on Friday that if Israel and the US abandon their efforts to reach the phased hostages deal that they’ve been negotiating for months with Hamas, it will take “a long time” to reach an understanding on a comprehensive deal to release all of the hostages in exchange for ending the war.

An Israeli source quoted Friday by the Haaretz daily expressed deep pessimism about the prospects for a broader agreement, saying there was little chance Hamas would accept Israel’s conditions for ending the war.

The deal currently on the table would only see the release of 28 of the 50 hostages during the two-month truce under discussion. The remainder would only be released if Israel and Hamas reach an agreement during those 60 days on terms for a permanent ceasefire.

However, after Witkoff’s meetings Thursday, a senior Israeli official told reporters that Israel and the United States are now aligned on aiming for a comprehensive framework in place of another partial ceasefire and hostage-release deal.

“There will be no more partial deals,” the official was quoted as saying, explaining that Israel and the US now concur on the need to “shift from a framework for the release of some of the hostages to a framework for the release of all of the hostages, the disarmament of Hamas and the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.”

“At the same time,” the source was quoted as saying, “Israel and the US will work to increase the humanitarian aid, while continuing the fighting in Gaza.”

If actualized, the new stance would mark a major shift for Israel, which came up with the phased hostage deal framework during the first year of the war, as it enabled Israel to secure the release of some of its hostages, while maintaining the ability to resume the war — something Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needed to maintain his coalition, as far-right partners threatened to collapse the government if Israel agreed to a permanent ceasefire.

Hamas, for its part, has offered the release of all remaining hostages in exchange for an end to the war, while rejecting calls to disarm. Netanyahu has also argued that prematurely ending the war would leave Hamas in power and able to regroup.

Families and supporters of Israelis held hostage in Gaza since October 2023, hold a protest calling for action to secure their release outside the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem on July 31, 2025. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

According to the senior Israeli official briefing reporters, there has been a “breakdown in contacts” with Hamas negotiators. “Hamas has cut off communication… There is no one to talk to on the other side. This is also Witkoff’s understanding.”

The official also noted that Jerusalem and Washington will work to increase humanitarian assistance while continuing the fighting in Gaza, where Witkoff visited Friday amid growing international concern and criticism regarding the current US- and Israel-backed aid distribution system.

Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are holding 50 hostages, including 49 of the 251 abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023. They include the bodies of at least 28 confirmed dead by the IDF. Twenty are believed to be alive and there are grave concerns for the well-being of two others, Israeli officials have said. Hamas is also holding the body of an IDF soldier killed in Gaza in 2014.

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