ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Jawad Sohrab Malik on Thursday urged the international community, especially the Islamic world, to play an active role in ensuring immediate ceasefire and opening of a humanitarian corridor for uninterrupted relief supplies to the besieged innocent civilians of Gaza.

The SAPM called upon Palestinian ambassador Ahmed Rabi’i to express his condemnation of the rising hostilities and aggression, perpetrated by Israeli occupation forces against innocent civilians in Gaza.

During the meeting, Mr Malik strongly denounced the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure, medical services, educational institutions and refugees’ camps by the Israeli occupation forces, according to a press release.

He said given the sheer number of people, i.e. around 2.2 million and the indefinite longevity, 75 years, “Gaza is the mother of all concentration camps”.

Published in Dawn, November 10th, 2023