Pakistan Will Attend of Board of Peace Meeting in Washington

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif is expected to attend the first meeting of Gaza Board of Peace which is scheduled to be held in Washington on February 19, 2026.

Pakistan has officially received an invitation to participate in the first meeting of the Gaza Peace Board.

Official sources said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will take part in the meeting to present Pakistan’s point of view on Gaza situation. The White House has confirmed the date of the Peace Board meeting, emphasising that it will bring together key international stakeholders to discuss peace and stability in Gaza.

There is a view in Pakistan’s official circles that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif should not himself participate in the meeting. As he would have to face the situation of shaking hands with Israeli Prime Minister who would also be attending the meeting.

The first signs of what perspective Pakistan is going to present in the meeting came on Monday when Pakistan joined seven other Muslim countries, to “condemned what they described as Israel’s repeated violations of the ceasefire in Gaza and its “illegal decisions and measures” aimed at imposing unlawful sovereignty over occupied Palestinian territory”

The statement, released by the foreign ministers of Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Turkiye, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, rejected Israeli actions to entrench settlement activity and enforce a new legal and administrative reality in the occupied West Bank. The ministers said these steps were accelerating attempts at illegal annexation and the displacement of the Palestinian people, and reaffirmed that Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territory.

The ministers warned that continued expansionist Israeli policies and illegal measures in the occupied West Bank were fuelling violence and conflict across the region.

They expressed “absolute rejection” of the actions, calling them a blatant violation of international law that undermines the two-state solution and assaults the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to establish an independent and sovereign state on the June 4, 1967 lines, with occupied Jerusalem as its capital. The statement said such measures also weaken ongoing efforts for peace and regional stability.

The foreign ministers said the Israeli measures were “null and void” and in clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions, particularly Resolution 2334, which condemns actions aimed at altering the demographic composition, character and status of Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem.

They also referred to the 2024 advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, which found Israel’s policies and practices in the occupied Palestinian territory, as well as its continued presence there, to be illegal, and affirmed the need to end the occupation and the nullity of annexation of occupied Palestinian lands.

The ministers urged the international community to fulfil its legal and moral responsibilities and to compel Israel to halt what they termed dangerous escalation in the occupied West Bank, as well as inciting statements by Israeli officials.

They stressed that fulfilment of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination and statehood, based on the two-state solution in line with international resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative, remains the only path to a just and comprehensive peace that ensures security and stability in the region.