in 1979 and in 1987 and the atmosphere had been good for cricket between the two countries then5pak pm rejects any possibility of establishing diplomatic relations with israelimran khan has categorically rejected any possibility of establishing diplomatic relations with israel according to a media reportour policy on israel is clear the quaidiazam muhammad ali jinnah had said that pakistan can never accept state of israel until the people of palestine get rights and an independent state khan said in an interview with private news channel dunya tv on tuesdaypakistan and israel do not have diplomatic relations and their aircraft are not allowed to use each others airspaceif we recognise israel and ignore tyranny faced by the palestinians we will have to give up kashmir as well and this we cannot do he saidhis remarks came in the backdrop of recent peace overtures between the uae and israel with the former becoming only the third arab nation to enter into a peace deal with the jewish statequestions were also asked in pakistan why it was following an antagonistic policy toward israel when the arabs were embracing the jewish state in the changing regional political alignmentwhen asked to comment on the uaes ties with israel khan said that every state had its own foreign policy6pakistan reports 496 new cases of coronaviruspakistan has registered 450 new cases of coronavirus taking the total number of infections in the nation to 293711 according to the countrys health ministrythe ministry of national health services said the new cases were detected as the number of diagnosis tests have been intensified across the nationhealth authorities have reported 450 new cases of coronavirus and now the total number of infections stand at 293711 the ministry said in a statementthe ministry also said the number of deaths due to the coronavirus currently stands at 6255 after 31 more patients suffering from the disease succumbed to the infectionthe governments covid19 portal showed that 1596 more people have recovered from coronavirus in the country taking the total recoveries to 278425so far total 2463513 tests were carried out in the country including 23655 in the last 24 hours