PM reiterates Pakistan’s support to Palestinians; calls for prayers

On Friday, Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, reaffirmed that his country would stand for the Palestinian people until they are freed from Zionist rule and an independent state is established in Palestine along its pre-1967 boundaries.

In his speech on Quds Day, which is celebrated every year on the final Friday of Holy Ramadan (Jumuat-ul-Wida), the Prime Minister remarked that the people of Pakistan as a whole denounced Zionist injustice and showed support for the suffering Palestinians.

He claimed that throughout the previous 70 years, Israel had been illegally occupying Palestine and Jerusalem and had been routinely breaking human rights and international law to do so, all the while the rest of the world had looked on in silence.

The PM stated that although the Israeli occupation and atrocities have been ongoing for the past 70 years, their severity has worsened.