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title: 'Pakistan Urges UNSC, OIC to Act Now for Gaza Ceasefire'
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date: '2025-09-24T14:03:36+05:00'
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# Pakistan Urges UNSC, OIC to Act Now for Gaza Ceasefire

**New York (TDI):** Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has called on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and the international community to take urgent steps to stop the ongoing violence in Gaza, describing the enclave as a “graveyard for humanity and the global conscience.”

Speaking at the UNSC meeting on the Middle East during the 80th UN General Assembly session in New York, Dar highlighted the scale of devastation. “Hospitals, schools and markets lie in ruins. Roads and families have been shattered. Over 64,000 lives have been lost and more than 100,000 people have been injured,” he said. “These are not mere statistics, they were grieving mothers, vanquished fathers, suffering children and revered elders.”

“The time for words has passed. The time for action is now,” he stressed, urging immediate measures including a permanent ceasefire, unrestricted humanitarian aid, lifting of the blockade, and an end to any forced displacement of Palestinians.

Dar warned that famine was already a grim reality in Gaza City, placing over half a million people at severe risk. “Dozens are killed each day, 300,000 have been uprooted, and nearly one million face imminent displacement,” he told the Council, questioning what such relentless violence meant for women, children, and hostages trapped in the conflict.

**Read More: [Dar Calls for Stronger OIC–UN Partnership to Advance Global Peace](https://thediplomaticinsight.com/dar-calls-for-stronger-oic-un-partnership/)**

Reaffirming Pakistan’s “unwavering support” for the Palestinian cause, he reiterated Islamabad’s backing for a sovereign and independent Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem (Al-Quds al-Sharif) as its capital. He also welcomed the France–Saudi Arabia initiative for a two-state solution and recent recognitions of Palestine by several UN member states.

Later, addressing the OIC Committee of Six on Palestine, Dar underscored Pakistan’s role as a non-permanent member of the UNSC for 2025–2026, pledging to advocate peace in the Middle East.

Warning that the world was “witnessing a plausible genocide,” he pointed to intensifying settler violence and military raids in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, carried out under what he termed “an extremist Israeli leadership determined to bury the two-state solution.”

**Read More: [FM Dar Arrives in New York for UNGA Session, Palestine High on Agenda](https://thediplomaticinsight.com/fm-dar-arrives-in-new-york-for-unga-session/)**

Dar urged the OIC to push collectively for an unconditional and lasting ceasefire, full support for UNRWA and secure aid corridors, an end to forced displacement and settlement expansion, return of land and property seized since 1967, the right of refugees to return home, war crimes accountability and reparations, implementation of ICJ rulings, an Arab- and Islamic-led Gaza reconstruction plan, deployment of an international protection force for Palestinians, and Palestine’s full UN membership.

“This is a defining moment for the Middle East and the Muslim world,” Dar said. “The momentum behind the two-state solution must not be lost.”