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Opposition Rejects Sharif's Role in Trump's Gaza Board

1/26/2026

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Pakistan's opposition and religious parties rejected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's involvement in U.S. President Donald Trump's Board of Peace, aimed at Gaza's postwar management.
PTI criticized the decision and urged transparency.
PTI Senator Syed Ali Zafar called the government's haste "inappropriate."
Jamaat-e-Islami leader Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman called the board a "new form of colonialism," while Minister Tariq Fazal Chaudhry defended the move as aligned with national interests.

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Pakistan's opposition and religious parties rejected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's involvement in U.S. President Donald Trump's Board of Peace, aimed at Gaza's postwar management.
PTI criticized the decision and urged transparency.
PTI Senator Syed Ali Zafar called the government's haste "inappropriate."
Jamaat-e-Islami leader Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman called the board a "new form of colonialism," while Minister Tariq Fazal Chaudhry defended the move as aligned with national interests.