LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has strongly condemned President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The CM said that when one of the parties demonstrates a massive no-confidence to a decades-old conflict and feels that it has been stabbed in the back, there is no way a peace process can bear fruit. The CM said that the world has rightly been outraged by the action of the Trump administration, whose understanding of history is fickle and self-serving. The chief minister endorsed President Erdogan’s comment wherein the Turkish leader had said that by recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the US has crossed the ‘red-line’ for Muslims. Instead of taking steps to reignite peace process, the US under President Trump has complicated the regional situation that will have graver implications for the world peace in general and the stability and peace of the Middle East in particular.

Source: Pakistan Today December 07, 2017 18:11 UTC