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'Should be mandatory': Trump wants Muslim nations to join Abraham Accords — what it means and why Pakistan is in a bind

US President Donald Trump called on several Muslim-majority countries including Pakistan to sign the Abraham Accords as part of what he described as a historic reshaping of the Middle East.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said discussions with leaders from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Pakistan, Türkiye, Egypt, Jordan and Bahrain had convinced him that “it should be mandatory” for most of them to join the US-brokered diplomatic framework normalising ties with Israel. “The Abraham Accords have proven to be, for the Countries involved ... a Financial, Economic, and Social BOOM,” Trump wrote, adding that the agreements could bring “true Power, Strength, and Peace to the Middle East for the first time in 5,000 years”.

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