PHOTO of Anila Ali, a Pakistani-American, who shared her this photo of meeting with Herzog on Twitter on May 12, 2022

By The South Asia Times 

SWITZERLAND: Israeli President Isaac Herzog has confirmed that he recently met with a Pakistani-American delegation and called his meeting “great change”.

Speaking at at the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting on May 26 in Davos, Switzerland, Herzog said he received two delegations, one from Morocco and another one from Pakistani-Americans.

"And I must say this was an amazing experience. We haven't had a group of Pakistani leaders in Israel in such scope. And that all stems from the Abraham Accords, meaning Jews and Muslims can dwell together in the region ,” Dawn, a leading Pakistani daily quoted Herzog as saying.

Israeli President's statement bringing strong criticism against those Pakistani expats who lived in the US and represented Pakistan in a country which didn’t recognized by Islamabad. 

"Another commitment made to US under regime change conspiracy by imported government and other co-conspirators fulfilled!,” Shireen Mazari, former Human Rights Minister and leader of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf tweeted.

"Shameful subservience!" she said.

Mazari earlier this month also criticized a journalist Ahmed Qureshi who is working in Pakistan state-run TV for visiting Israel and using Pakistan's name in the Jewish country . 

No Pakistani can visit on the country’s passport because Islamabad didn’t recognize Israel, however, these people apparently visited on US passport. 

In February, Amnesty International said that Israel is apartheid state, committing crimes against humanity.

"The Israeli government is committing the crime against humanity of apartheid against Palestinians and must be held accountable," the organization said as it released its nearly 280-page report.

Pakistan also does not recognize Israel and, has no diplomatic relations with it. 

Pakistan always stood behind Palestinian and called Israel an occupied state and committed state-sponsored terrorism against Muslims in Palestine. 

"For just and lasting peace, it is imperative to have a two-state solution in accordance with relevant United Nations and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation resolutions, with the pre-1967 borders and Al-Quds Al-Sharif as capital of a viable, independent and contiguous Palestinian State," the Foreign Office had said last year.