Afghanistan is not a graveyard of empires it is actually a playground of empires who left Afghanistan after playing some games.Pakistan is not going anywhere.If Taliban want to live peacefully they are welcome but if they will harbour terrorists we will not allow them. DG ISPR
Pakistan and Turkiye troops deployment in Gaza
There remains no official confirmation from Israel regarding reports of a possible Pakistani troop deployment in Gaza, and details about the mandate, objectives, or duration of such an arrangement are still unclear. However, what is confirmed is Israel’s explicit opposition to any form of Turkish military deployment in the territory.
This raises a critical question: why would Israel unofficially signal openness to Pakistani troops while opposing Turkish involvement?
In reality, Israel is unlikely to permit any foreign troops from any country, especially under a UN mandate, inside Gaza. However, its objection to Turkish participation offers insight into its threat perception and regional outlook.
Over the past decade, Türkiye has pursued an assertive foreign policy, expanding its military presence across the region. Israel now sees Türkiye as a potential regional rival, with both nations’ interests increasingly colliding, particularly in Syria and beyond.
Türkiye maintains direct diplomatic and political channels with Hamas, which would complicate any “post-war” arrangement. From Israel’s perspective, Turkish participation could allow Hamas to retain indirect influence even if limited or symbolic.
By contrast, Pakistan presents a different strategic calculus. The idea of Pakistani troops in Gaza cannot be understood in isolation; it must be situated within the broader matrix of Israel–Pakistan–U.S. relations.
In recent months, Israel has demonstrated a renewed interest in shaping Washington’s approach toward Islamabad, notably influencing the U.S. sanctions imposed on Pakistan’s National Development Complex (NDC), a key institution in Pakistan’s missile program. Unlike earlier sanctions targeting private entities, these were aimed directly at the state’s strategic-industrial base, particularly over the Shaheen series of ballistic missiles. These systems were primarily designed to deter India but also serve as a latent deterrent against Israel, given Tel Aviv’s increasing operational reach through CENTCOM. Apart from this influence, Israel finger fingerprints during the India-Pakistan standoff in May were quite visible.
Despite this adversarial history, Israel’s quiet openness to a limited Pakistani deployment appears to serve multiple strategic and psychological purposes rather than signalling a policy shift.
First, it allows Israel to undermine Pakistan’s soft power in the Muslim world by associating Islamabad with a controversial post-war arrangement that lacks popular support on the Arab street. Such ambiguity could create internal confusion within Pakistan between the rhetoric of solidarity with Palestine and the realities of any deployment under Western or Israeli-approved frameworks. Second, the move serves as a psychological signal of potential post-Gaza normalization, suggesting a softening of barriers without committing to formal diplomatic engagement.
From Israel’s standpoint, Pakistan represents a low-risk participant: it lacks Türkiye’s regional ambitions, Iran’s ideological posture, or the logistical infrastructure to sustain long-term deployments in the region. This makes Pakistan a less unsettling option for limited participation.
Should Israel, unexpectedly, approve a Pakistani presence, it would almost certainly come with strict conditions:
- The mission’s mandate would be peacekeeping, not peace enforcement.
- Pakistani units would be lightly armed, prohibited from deploying heavy weaponry or offensive assets.
Under these constraints, combined with Pakistan’s limited logistical depth and absence of regional military infrastructure, the deployment would serve Tel Aviv’s strategic interests more than Islamabad’s.
In the event of hostilities or Israeli violations (a recurring issue in past UN missions), Pakistan would lack the capacity to respond effectively, thereby exposing the limits of its strategic autonomy and eroding its deterrence credibility.
Any Pakistani military involvement in Gaza without Palestinian consent, a clearly defined mandate, and robust rules of engagement would constitute a serious strategic miscalculation. In the volatile and deeply contested war environment, such a move risks entangling Pakistan in regional rivalries while yielding little strategic benefit.
#Qatar was asking #Pakistan to close airspace for #USA drones going to Afghanistan while Pakistan asked Qatar to stop allowing take off the drones from your airbases instead
The Taliban don't have any problems with Qatar for providing airbases to the USA against Afghanistan but they have problems with Pakistan for not closing the airspace
This is the Gaza holocaust.
Concentration camps with starving people who line up for bread with bullets raining down on them.
The cruelest display of depravity delivered daily to all of our screens, and a failed world order doing nothing to stop it.