Deputy Pakistan PM Dar to attend Gaza moot in Jordan this week

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar will travel to Jordan from June 10-11 to participate in a conference on the ongoing war in Gaza, the foreign office said on Monday. 
Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, launched after Hamas attacked Isarel last October, has killed more than 37,000 Palestinians, according to the Palestinian health ministry, and reduced the enclave to a wasteland.
A proposed Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal hangs in the balance as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken returns to the Middle East today, Monday, on his eighth diplomatic mission to the region to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Cairo, before traveling to Israel, Jordan and Qatar.
“Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar will undertake a two-day visit to Jordan on June 10-11 to participate in the high-level conference ‘Call for Action: Urgent Humanitarian Response for Gaza’,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
The conference has been jointly organized by Jordanian King Abdullah II, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
The moot aims to identify and develop a “collective response to the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza,” the statement said, adding the Pakistan’s participation underscored its continued commitment to peace and stability in the Middle East and its longstanding support for the Palestinian cause.
“On the sidelines, the deputy prime minister is likely to hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts from participating countries,” the foreign ministry added.