Pakistan ‘fully supports’ Iran’s call for OIC extraordinary meeting over Haniyeh assassination: Foreign minister
Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar says Islamabad “fully” supports Iran’s call for an “extraordinary meeting” of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) over Israel’s assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
Iran's acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani has requested an OIC emergency meeting and collective condemnation by the regional states of the Israeli regime’s Wednesday assassination of Haniyeh.
Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, was in Tehran to attend Tuesday’s swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian.
In a phone conversation with Bagheri Kani on Saturday, Dar said Pakistan would “actively participate” in the “important meeting” of the OIC, the Pakistani Foreign Office said in a press release.
He added that Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had condemned Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and the atrocious assassination of the Hamas chief in the “strongest possible terms.”
Bagheri Kani invited the top Pakistani diplomat to participate in the OIC extraordinary meeting at the “foreign ministers level”, which will be convened on Haniyeh’s assassination “in the near future.”
According to the Foreign Office, Iran’s acting foreign minister shared his country’s deep anguish on Haniyeh’s assassination in Tehran.
It noted that the Pakistani National Assembly had unanimously condemned the heinous act which was against “international law, established diplomatic norms and acceptable behavior amongst the comity of nations.”
In a statement on Saturday, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said the assassination of the Hamas politburo chief was designed and executed by Israel, with support from the US administration.
The IRGC reported that the attack involved the use of a short-range projectile armed with a warhead weighing approximately seven kilograms, which subsequently caused a massive explosion.
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