Pakistan asserts unchanged position on Israel as rumours suggest otherwise

Amid latest round of rumours, Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs insisted that the government’s policy on relations with Israel remained unchanged.

The Foreign Office spokesman Dr Mohammad Faisal said this on Thursday in response to multiple questions at the weekly media briefing. He asserted: “Our position on Israel remains unchanged”.
Rumours about Pakistan recognising Israel have been doing the rounds since October last year, when the editor of Israeli newspaper Haaretz’s English edition, Ami Scharf, claimed in a tweet that a private jet possibly carrying Israeli officials travelled to Islamabad from Tel Aviv and remained on ground in the Pakistani capital for nearly 10 hours.
The claim was on that occasion strongly denied by the government and aviation regulator.
Later in November, a legislator from the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Asma Hadeed reignited the controversy by proposing recognition of Israel in a speech in the National Assembly.