Promoting Peace: The Pakistan-Israel Dosti Initiative

This paper, which will describe and analyze the relationship between Israel and Pakistan, is divided into eight parts. The first two sections deal with the similarities and commonality of interests between the two countries. The third and fourth sections discuss Pakistan’s position on the Arab-Israel conflict and its contacts with Israel since independence. The fifth section deals with the nuclear dimension and the need for both countries to accommodate each other’s security concerns. Domestic Pakistani debates concerning normalization are discussed in the sixth part, while the following section looks at the obstacles to Israeli-Pakistani normalization. The last section considers the prospects for diplomatic relations and examines the options confronting Pakistan

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