ISLAMABAD - Former interior minister and Chairman Institute of Research and Reforms Rehman Malik on Thursday visited Palestinian Embassy and met with Palestinian Ambassador Ahmed Rafi to express solidarity with Palestinians.
He strongly condemned Israel’s barbaric aggression and urged the world to break its silence over the Israeli’s atrocities. He expressed his heartfelt sympathies and condolences with oppressed people of Palestine.
He said that Pakistani nation stood by their Palestinian brothers and sisters and expressed their solidarity with the heroic and brave people of Palestine.
Rehman Malik said that so far, the Israeli airstrikes had killed more than 220 Palestinians including 63 children and 36 women, with 1,530 people wounded, yet the world, including the United Nations, had turned a blind eye to the massacre of innocent Palestinians.
Later, talking to journalists outside Palestinian Embassy, he said that he had written a letter to Secretary General United Nation to constitute a high power delegation consisting of renowned religious leaders from all faiths, political figures, and human rights activists to visit Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv to make both sides sit together and announce measures for a permanent peace between Palestine and Israel.
He also made the letter public and distributed copies of the letter among journalists. He said the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas had divided the world into two civilisations and we were inching to World War III. “Indeed it is time for you Secretary General (UN) to hear the cries of Palestinians and intervene by ignoring the vetoes of the world’s mighty power which were not bigger than the creator of this world. I fully realise it is a very sensitive issue,” his letter reads.
Rehman Malik in his letter to UN Secretary General said that let the victim parties be heard and suggest a permanent solution hence a peace delegation under the interfaith charter of the UN be constituted enabling it to visit Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
He also proposed mandate to convince Israel and Hamas calling to halt the fighting forthwith, no more land grabbing by Israel, working out a corridor allowing the stakeholders to perform their religious duties adding that Kartarpur type corridor should be built around the Masjid Al-Aqsa with separate entrances duly agreed by the stakeholders. It also included that no arms of any kind shall be allowed in Masjid Al-Aqsa and UN peacekeepers should provide security for the mosque till special security by actual stakeholders in place.
Rehman Malik proposed that peace delegation may include Imam of the Grand Mosque Masjid Al-Haram in Makkah, Pope Francis, Italy, and The Chief Rabbinate of Israel as proposed by Israel and head of United Nations Human Rights Council.