Salman Rafi Sheikh is assistant professor of politics at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Lahore University of Management Sciences.
Creating a formal coalition would move beyond recent symbolic gestures

United Nations leaders and co-chairs of a high-level international conference, hosted by France and Saudi Arabia to work toward a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians, pose for a photo at the U.N. headquarters in New York on July 28. © Reuters
Salman Rafi Sheikh is assistant professor of politics at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Lahore University of Management Sciences.