Pakistan’s largest Islamic party denounces U.S.-backed proposal, calls for rallies and solidarity marches across the country.
Pakistan’s largest Islamic movement, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), has categorically rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed Gaza peace plan, branding it an endorsement of Israeli aggression and a betrayal of Palestinian sacrifices.
In a statement, posted on social media platform X, JI, Chief Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman criticized Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for supporting the Trump so-called peace plan. “Without the will and consent of the Pakistani nation, how can any individual dare to speak in the voice of Donald Trump?” he said in his post on social media.
“The United Nations Charter is clear: every nation has the right to armed struggle if its land is occupied, and no power can forcibly deny this right,” Naeem added.
“We call on every Pakistani to stand firm with us in solidarity with Palestine. Establishing a durable peace would be impossible until and unless genocide in Palestine is stopped and democratically elected Hamas is not recognised,” he added.
Jamaat e Islami chief criticized the United States for its hypocrisy — claiming to champion human rights and democracy while using atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and waging wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
As a show of solidarity with Palestine and in condemnation of “Israeli terror in Gaza,” JI announced it will observe Palestine Solidarity Week from October 1–7, including Million Marches in Karachi and Lahore. The party urged every Pakistani to join in, under the campaign hashtag #NationRejectsTrumpDeal.
Hafiz Naeem further reminded that the UN Charter upholds the right of occupied nations to armed resistance. He accused the United States of hypocrisy for championing democracy abroad while opposing elected Islamic movements like Hamas in Palestine and the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria.
“The Other Party Is Hamas”
Asif Luqman Qazi, JI’s Director of Foreign Affairs, said Palestinians have withstood relentless Israeli bombardment for two years but have refused to accept the occupation.
“This war has been fought in isolation — not a single Muslim country extended military, political, or even meaningful diplomatic support. On the contrary, some states discredited themselves by siding with Israel,” Qazi wrote on his official Facebook page.
He argued that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s push for negotiations is a result of internal and external pressures. “He aims to achieve through politics what Israel could not secure on the battlefield,” Qazi said, adding that Pakistan must recognize Hamas, elected in 2006, as Gaza’s legitimate authority.
“No solution to the crisis will be credible without direct engagement with Hamas,” he stressed.
Warning to Islamabad
Asif Luqman Qazi cautioned that Pakistan must not become complicit in forcing an externally designed settlement on Palestinians. “Such an arrangement would be rejected not only by Gaza’s people but also by the wider Muslim world,” he warned.
He said that at a time when global public opinion — including in the West — is shifting against Israel’s campaign, any compromise on Palestinian rights would spark outrage inside Pakistan.
“The Pakistani government, already politically fragile, cannot afford to betray Gaza. Should it attempt to barter away Palestinian rights, it would be driving the final nail into its own coffin,” he concluded.
JI also announced massive Gaza Million Marches in Lahore on October 4 and in Karachi on October 5, culminating in a Global Day of Protest on October 7, where lawyers will be urged to walk out of courts for one hour in solidarity.
