Following Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s pitch for a “hexagon of alliances”—aimed toward combating “radical axes” within the Center East (Western Asia), a rattled Islamabad has rushed to sentence it, calling it an “anti-Muslim Ummah bloc”.
The proposed “hexagon of alliances” grouping, which has named India among the many key members, was on Tuesday described by a decision by the Pakistani Parliament’s Senate (the Higher Home) as a risk to regional and worldwide peace and stability, reported a number of Pakistani information retailers. The decision described the pitch as a “vile proclivity of the management of the Israeli occupying energy in direction of diminishing the unity and integrity of the Muslim Ummah on political and ideological grounds”.
A frontrunner of the Pakistan Individuals’s Social gathering (PPP)—which is an integral a part of the PM Shehbaz Sharif-led ruling coalition—”deplored the continued provocative steps and statements by the Israeli management that threatened regional and worldwide peace and stability, together with the newest assertion about forming alliances in opposition to Muslim nations,” reported Pakistani English each day, The Categorical Tribune.
Days earlier than Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day state go to to Israel, Netanyahu mentioned that the safety alliance would tackle radical Shia and Sunni adversaries within the area. He mentioned that the bloc would come with Israel, India, Greece and Cyprus, together with different unnamed Arab, African and Asian nations. Netanyahu’s announcement got here amid rising tensions between Israel and Iran and Pakistan and Saudi Arabia becoming a member of arms for a Nato-like pact, with Turkey seeking to be part of it.
PAKISTAN’S SENATE PASSES RESOLUTION CONDEMNING ISRAEL-INDIA HEXAGON ALLIANCE
The decision was launched by PPP chief Palwasha Mohammad Zai Khan, within the Senate, Pakistan’s higher home of Parliament, and was handed unanimously. The decision expressed robust disapproval at what it described as continued provocative actions and statements by the Israeli management, together with feedback about creating “alliances” in opposition to Muslim nations, reported the Pakistani newspaper, Daybreak.
In its decision, the Senate condemned any makes an attempt by Israel to undermine what it described because the “sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity of brotherly Islamic nations”.
It additionally rejected Israel’s recognition of Somaliland, as a sovereign impartial state. The breakaway area of Somalia on the Purple Sea, was recognised by Israel in December 2025. Pakistan had joined ranks with the Organisation of Islamic Nations and 20 different nations in rejecting the Israeli transfer then, calling it “full and blatant disregard for worldwide regulation.”
Pakistan’s Senate additionally condemned what it known as Israel’s continued violations of the ceasefire settlement in Gaza. It alleged that Jerusalem was blatantly disregarding worldwide regulation, the UN Constitution, related UN Normal Meeting and Safety Council resolutions, and the Advisory Opinion of the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice (ICJ).
The decision reaffirmed Islamabad’s “unwavering” help for the Palestinian folks’s “inalienable” proper to self-determination and for the institution of an “impartial, viable, and contiguous” State of Palestine primarily based on pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. The Home additionally demanded full Israeli withdrawal from “the occupied territories.”
WHAT IS ISRAEL’S PROPOSED HEXAGON OF ALLIANCES?
Israeli PM Netanyahu proposed the “hexagon” of alliances as a brand new safety framework to counter what he calls “radical axes” in West Asia. The announcement got here days forward of Indian PM Narendra Modi’s go to to Israel after 9 years.
Talking on Sunday (February 22), Netanyahu mentioned the bloc would carry collectively nations that “see eye-to-eye on the truth, challenges and objectives” posed by extremist forces.
“This consists of India, Arab nations, African nations, Mediterranean nations (Greece and Cyprus), and nations in Asia that I will not element in the intervening time. I’ll current this in an organised method,” Netanyahu added. The framework is designed to deepen cooperation in safety, defence and intelligence-sharing.
Netanyahu explicitly framed the alliance as a counterweight to the “radical Shia axis,” led by Iran and its proxies akin to Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, in addition to an “rising radical Sunni axis” linked to remnants of ISIS.
Within the absence of any formal safety pact between the nations envisioned to be a part of the alliance, Netanyahu’s invoking of the “hexagon” indicators a structured structure that would come with Greece, Cyprus, extra nations from Asia and Africa, with India envisaged as a key accomplice.
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