US President Donald Trump on Thursday promised $10 billion and Muslim-majority nations offered funding and troops for Gaza at the inaugural Board of Peace meeting in Washington.<\/p>\n
Pakistan, however, was not named among the five nations who have committed troops for the International Stabilisation Force, which will be tas\u00adk\u00aded with securing reconstruction zones and supporting a post-conflict governance arrangement in Gaza.<\/p>\n
Trump brought together allies from around the world \u2014 many authoritarians, with few Western democrats who traditionally ally with the United States \u2014 to hail his peacemaking at the first Board of Peace meeting.<\/p>\n
Presiding with a gavel over the meeting in the gleaming Washington building of the former US Institute of Peace, which has been gutted and renamed after the 79-year-old Republican, Trump hailed the \u201cpowerful people\u201d who joined his board.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will help Gaza. We will straighten it out. We\u2019ll make it successful,\u201d Trump said, holding up a document with pledges before the disco beats of his adopted theme-song \u201cYMCA\u201d came on the speakers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will make it peaceful, and we will do things like that in other spots. Spots will come up, things will happen,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
Troops pledges
\nThe Board of Peace came together after the Trump administration, teaming up with Qatar and Egypt, negotiated a ceasefire in October to halt two years of devastating Israeli onslaught in Gaza.<\/p>\n
The plan\u2019s second phase calls for the disarmament of Hamas.<\/p>\n
In a first for an Arab country, Morocco announced it was ready to send police as well as officers to the nascent International Stabilisation Force.<\/p>\n
The force\u2019s American commander, Major General Jasper Jeffers, said that Albania, Indonesia, Kazakhstan and Kosovo were also sending troops and announced that an Indonesian officer would serve as his deputy.<\/p>\n
Indonesia, the world\u2019s largest Muslim-majority country, earlier said it was ready to send 8,000 troops \u2014 nearly half of the 20,000 sought.<\/p>\n
Trump hailed Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, who attended, calling the former military officer accused of human rights abuses in East Timor a \u201ctough cookie.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nickolay Mladenov, a veteran Bulgarian diplomat named high representative for Gaza by the United States, also announced the beginning of recruitment for a post-Hamas police force in Gaza and said 2,000 people had applied in the first hours.<\/p>\n
Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Andrabi was also asked about the ISF and Pakistan\u2019s view on it during a weekly briefing in Islamabad today.<\/p>\n
In response, he said: \u201cWe understand that a decision is awaited on the contours of the mandate of the International Stabilisation Force, and till such time, we\u2019re not in a position to take any decision on this matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have identified our red lines quite explicitly. The deputy prime minister and the foreign minister has done so here from this platform, and elsewhere. Pakistan can be part of a peacekeeping mandate, but we would not be part of any disarming\/ demilitarisation mandates. This discussion at [the Board of Peace meeting in] Washington might take place today. We will update you as and when these developments take place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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