PM to attend Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ meeting: FO

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will attend the first meeting of US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” next week in Washington, the Foreign Office confirmed on Thursday.

Speaking at the weekly media briefing in Islamabad, Foreign Office Spokesperson Tahir Andrabi said the premier would participate in the meeting scheduled for February 19.

“I can confirm that the prime minister will attend the upcoming BoP meeting,” Andrabi said, adding that Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar will also accompany him.

The “Board of Peace” was initially proposed under President Trump’s Gaza plan to oversee temporary governance arrangements in the Palestinian territory. However, Trump later announced that the board, which he chairs, would be expanded to address broader global conflicts.

The initiative, launched in late January, has drawn cautious responses from several countries. Some analysts have expressed concerns that the board’s structure could potentially undermine the role of the United Nations. The United States has said that more than 20 countries have agreed to join the platform so far.

Pakistan has previously stated that its decision to join the board is aimed at supporting peace efforts within the framework of the United Nations Security Council.

“We have joined the BoP in good faith,” Andrabi said. “We are in it not in isolation, not as one voice, but as collective voice of eight Islamic-Arab countries.”

Sources said that PM Sharif will travel to Germany from February 13 to 15, where he will attend the Munich Security Conference, the sources said. After concluding his visit to Germany, he is expected to depart for Washington to attend the Gaza Peace Board meeting.

Pakistan had earlier accepted an invitation from Donald Trump to join the proposed “Board of Peace”, a US-backed international initiative aimed at stabilisation, humanitarian relief and post-war reconstruction in Gaza.

Later, Pakistan’s Foreign Office rejected suggestions that its decision to join the newly formed “Board of Peace” is connected to the Abraham Accords and reiterated that the country will not become a party to those normalization agreements.

Pakistan joined the Board of Peace alongside seven other Muslim-majority countries — including Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia and Qatar — as part of what government officials described as a collective effort to advance peace in the war-torn Palestinian territory.

Earlier, Israel officially joined the “Board of Peace,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced during a visit to Washington, where he met Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.