{"id":23761,"date":"2026-09-14T15:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T10:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23761"},"modified":"2026-09-14T15:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T10:37:32","slug":"pakistan-taking-additional-responsibility-under-makkah-pact-to-promote-regional-peace-foreign-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23761","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan taking additional responsibility under Makkah pact to promote regional peace: Foreign Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York: Pakistan is taking on additional responsibility under the Makkah agreement as the regional situation continues to move in a negative direction, Foreign Secretary Asim Iftikhar Ahmad has said, stressing that Islamabad&#8217;s objective is to promote peace and stability.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in New York, Ahmad said Pakistan was playing a role in efforts to end the conflict in the Middle East and wanted a peaceful resolution in accordance with international law and United Nations principles.<\/p>\n<p>He said Pakistan wanted a ceasefire, de-escalation and efforts to bring the parties to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign secretary said the UN and Security Council framework was designed to resolve disputes through negotiations rather than war.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad said three countries were part of the Makkah agreement and Pakistan was assuming additional responsibility under the arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognise that the situation is moving in a negative direction. We are aware of it and believe that we have to play a role,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign secretary said Pakistan&#8217;s objective was to promote peace and stability across the region.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the Iran-US conflict, Ahmad said the world had been watching closely to see how the situation would unfold, adding that Pakistan was among the leading countries that played a role in efforts surrounding the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the Palestine and Kashmir disputes should be resolved in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad rejected the view that the United Nations was not contributing to international peace efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York: Pakistan is taking on additional responsibility under the Makkah agreement as the regional situation continues to move in a negative direction, Foreign Secretary Asim Iftikhar Ahmad has said, stressing that Islamabad&#8217;s objective is to promote peace and stability. Speaking in New York, Ahmad said Pakistan was playing a role in efforts to end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[13622,12026,13623,2856,62,1559],"class_list":["post-23761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-asim-iftikhar-ahmad","tag-iran-us-conflict","tag-makkah-agreement","tag-middle-east","tag-pakistan","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23763,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23761\/revisions\/23763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}