Claim: During a special address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this year, US President Donald Trump admitted to Pakistan’s participation when he was asked if the country will be sending its forces to fight Hamas and Hezbollah.
Fact: During the WEF fire chat in Davos, Trump was not asked about Pakistan sending forces to fight Hamas or Hezbollah, nor did he mention Pakistan in his response. There is also no official statement from Pakistan indicating such a deployment.
On 21 January 2026, US President Donald Trump delivered a special address at the World Economic Forum. The speech was followed by a fire chat session in which Norway’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs Børge Brende interviewed Trump. A clip from this session was shared on Facebook, with the claim that it shows Trump saying Pakistan would fight Hezbollah and Hamas. It contained the following text: “پاکستان کی فوج حسب اللہ اور ہماس سے لڑے گی پوچھنا یہ تھا کہ یہودی ایجنٹ کون ہے”
[Translation: The question was whether Pakistan’s army would fight Hezbollah and Hamas, and who the Jewish agent is.]
While another post accompanying the video was captioned:
[Translated from Urdu: Some of the countries that want to send their troops to Gaza are not from the Middle East, but are located nearby.
They are ready to fight Hamas and want to eradicate it completely.
President Trump.
Marco Rubio stated a few weeks ago that Pakistan itself had offered to send its troops.
President Trump has now outlined the mandate of the countries included in the Gaza Peace Board: these countries will not only eliminate Hamas from Gaza, but will also uproot Hezbollah in Lebanon. They will end every form of resistance in the Middle East that is against Israel.
Will Pakistan now move to eliminate Hamas?]
In the clip, Trump says:
“You know, we have 59 countries that are part of that whole peace deal. And some of those countries aren’t even in, they’re near the Middle East, but they’re not in the Middle East traditionally. And they want to come in and take out Hamas. They want to come in. They want to do whatever they can.
There’s a problem with Hezbollah in Lebanon, and we’ll see what happens there, but that’s a problem. But there are these little flames, but there’s peace in the Middle East now.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check suspected the claim as the US president does not specifically mention Pakistan even in the clip shared in the post being fact-checked.
Therefore, first, we reverse-searched keyframes of the viral clip and traced it to the original, complete footage of the session shared by The White House’s official YouTube channel on 21 January 2026, titled: “President Trump Delivers a Special Address to the World Economic Forum.”
At 1:31:49, Borge Brende asks Trump:
“Present, Sisi, is sitting on the first row here. He spoke earlier today and also complimented you on the Gaza deal. I think there will be a signing tomorrow. Of course there are different views on this, but how important do you think this signing is on the Board of Peace? And do you think this is going to sustain? Do you think we -now- will see Gaza reconstructed and the billions of US dollars invested?”
It is worth mentioning that Brende did not ask Trump if Pakistan will send troops to fight Hamas or Hezbollah.
Trump responds: “I do. I mean, I think we have peace in the Middle East. There are some little situations like Hamas and Hamas has agreed to give up their weapons. Now, you know, they were born with a weapon in the head, so it’s not easy to do. When they were born, they were born with a rifle in the head. It’s not an easy thing for them, but they -, that’s what they agreed to. They’ve got to do it. And we’re gonna know Jared- over the next two or three days, over the next three weeks whether or not they’re gonna do it. If they don’t do, they- they’ll be blown away very quickly. They’ll be blown away.”
The viral clip shows Trump’s response from this moment onwards, starting at timestamp 1:32:48.
While the US president does mention that countries traditionally not in the Middle East were willing to come in and “take out Hamas,” he does not particularly mention Pakistan at any point.
Following this segment, Trump added that the US carried out a major military strike using B-2 bombers and Tomahawk missiles that completely destroyed Iran’s nuclear capabilities. He said that this prevented Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and was essential to achieving peace in the Middle East. He says the action enabled agreements by countries like Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar, portraying Iran as a former regional threat that was decisively neutralised.
Soch Fact Check then searched for news reports to gain context about Pakistan’s stance on the matter. It initially welcomed and endorsed the peace plan proposed by President Trump on 29 September 2025. At the time, Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said Pakistan had not yet decided whether it would send troops to support a possible peacekeeping force in Gaza. On 20 December 2025, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was asked whether Pakistan had given its consent to deploy troops to Gaza for peacebuilding efforts. He responded saying that discussions were ongoing and that countries involved wanted clarity on the mandate and funding mechanism. Rubio added that though the US was “grateful to Pakistan for their offer to be a part of it, or at least their offer to consider being a part of it”, the US owed them a few more answers before asking for a firm commitment.
On 27 December 2025, Ishaq Dar clarified that Pakistan was willing to contribute to an international peacekeeping force in Gaza but would not deploy troops to disarm or de-weaponise Hamas. His remarks came amid reports that Washington viewed Pakistan as a potentially significant contributor to an International Stabilisation Force under Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace framework, according to Arab News.
Our search confirmed that Pakistan has not announced any plans to send troops to fight Hamas or Hezbollah. Pakistani officials have consistently stated that any potential role would be limited to participation in an international peacekeeping or stabilisation force, subject to a clear mandate, and would not involve disarming or fighting Hamas.
More recently, on 19 January 2026, Pakistan was invited by the US to join the “Board of Peace”. President Trump’s administration reached out to figures worldwide and related bodies to sit on the board, which was initially conceived with the purpose of overseeing governance and reconstruction in post-war Gaza.
On 22 January 2026, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and senior officials from 19 other countries signed the charter for the “Board of Peace” which has now been billed by President Trump as a platform for resolving international conflicts.
CNN cited a draft of the charter which described the Board of Peace “as an ‘international organization’ promoting stability, peace and governance ‘in areas affected or threatened by conflict.’” The report stated that the purpose of the Board had expanded since its conception to tackling conflicts world over, and added that “the charter draft, which was sent along with the invitations to join, does not even reference Gaza.”
Virality
The claim was shared here (archive) and here (archive) on Facebook.
Conclusion: The claim is false. The viral video does not show Donald Trump being asked whether Pakistan would send forces to fight Hamas or Hezbollah, nor does he make any such statement during the WEF fire chat in Davos. At no point during the session was Pakistan mentioned in the question posed to him, and Trump does not specifically refer to Pakistan in the clip accompanying the claim.
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