According to the DPM, Pakistan will not deploy troops to disarm Hamas in Gaza.

Ishaq Dar, the deputy prime minister, stated on Saturday that while Pakistan would not send soldiers to disarm or de-weaponize Hamas, it would be willing to support an international peacekeeping force in Gaza.

At a year-end conference in Islamabad, Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar told reporters, “If they say that we should go and start fighting, disarm Hamas, de-weaponize them, and go and destroy the tunnels that Hamas has built up until now, that is not our job.”

He stressed that the military and civic leadership had a clear understanding of the issue.

“We fully understand that we are unable to perform that type of work,” he continued.

When discussing the force, the deputy prime minister claimed that Pakistan had been referring to it as “peacekeeping” rather than “peace enforcement.”

“I have been very clear: if the mandate is not peace enforcement and disarming and de-weaponizing Hamas, then Pakistan will be happy to join.”

Dar declared that Pakistan would not send troops to “fight Muslims” in Palestine.