New Delhi : The famous line from Hamlet appears to have returned to haunt Islamabad after US President Donald Trump’s high-level conference call with Pakistan and several Arab nations over the weekend. The report goes on to say that there was pin-drop silence after Donald Trump floated the proposal during the call.
For a country that has tried to play peacemaker between Iran and the US, Donald Trump’s latest demand is not something Pakistan had hoped for as payback. More importantly, the offer is bound to put Pakistan in a bind. The Palestine issue remains an emotive topic for the Pakistani public. Officially recognising Israel without any clarity on Palestine is akin to a powder keg waiting to explode.
Back in 2020, the Abraham Accords were signed during Trump’s first term. Standing alongside Trump on the White House balcony were Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, unveiling the accords and signalling what they called “the dawn of a new Middle East.”
He insisted that he would not make any deal with the “Zionists”, knowing such a move could trigger massive domestic protests led by religious and fundamentalist groups. Experts point out that Pakistan, which has often drawn parallels between Palestine and Kashmir, is also wary that abandoning the two-state solution could appear hypocritical while continuing to oppose India over Kashmir.
Khan’s imprisonment and his party’s growing popularity as the main opposition will also serve as a stark warning for the Sharif government before it considers taking any step towards joining the Abraham Accords. The Shehbaz Sharif administration has indeed trodden carefully so far. When Pakistan joined Trump’s Board of Peace in early 2026 — tasked with post-war governance and reconstruction in Gaza — it came under heavy criticism.
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