WORLD NEWS | Pakistan denies Israel trade after businessman exports

ISLAMABAD, April 2 (PTI) Pakistan clarified on Sunday that it has never sent any goods to Israel following reports that its food items landed in the Jewish State.

The country faced backlash after Mr Fishel BenKhald, a Pakistani-Jewish businessman, posted a photo on social media of Pakistani products in Israel.

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It set off a firestorm, with the opposition PTI party seeking an explanation for any change in official policy toward Israel.

According to social media reports, Fischer Benhard, a Pakistani-Jewish businessman, recently shipped his first batch of food exports to Israel, the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement. York headquarters.

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“Pakistan has no diplomatic relations with Israel, does not recognize it as a sovereign state, and has neither trade nor banking ties with Israel. Pakistan Customs confirmed that no goods were exported from Pakistan to Israel,” it said.

The ministry said that if any goods or goods of Pakistani origin are exported through a third country, it cannot be called Pakistani exported to any country including Israel.

“Since the shipment was neither exported directly to Israel nor received payment at any Pakistani bank, it is misleading and factually incorrect to describe it as trade between Pakistan and Israel,” it said, adding Adding that the government clarified that no trade took place between Pakistan and Israel.

PTI leader Farrukh Habib has demanded answers from the foreign ministry on trade with Israel.

“After the regime change, under what agreement was this deal done? Why is the Pakistani Democratic Movement government silent on it?” Habib asked.

Earlier on March 28, Benkhald tweeted that he had exported the first shipment of Pakistani food to Israel.

“Congratulations on becoming a Pakistani. I exported my first batch of Pakistani food to the Israeli market,” Benkhald wrote.

“Dates, dried fruit and a jar of spices,” he tweeted.

Pakistan, which has no diplomatic ties with Tel Aviv, has said repeatedly that a two-state solution should be implemented to establish a Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders, with Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with relevant United Nations and Organization of the Islamic Conference resolutions.

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