Pakistan in the Iran–Israel War: How a nuclear state became an unexpected broker of peace
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The U.S. and Israel are making heavy fires with Iran again. Pakistan has offered itself as a mediator - the chances of success are uncertain.
A Pakistani and militant analyst, Farooq Sulehria examines Islamabad's role as host to the American-Iranian peace negotiations. He argues that this promotion to the rank of "medium power" owes nothing to a pacifist vocation: it stems from the character of the Pakistani state garrison, a diplomatic clientelism forged during the cold war and an interested calculation during the Israeli-American war against Iran. Sulehria dismantles the media stagi…
Pakistan in the Iran–Israel War: How a nuclear state became an unexpected broker of peace
In the aftermath of the Iran–Israel war, attention has largely remained fixed on the expected centres of gravity: Tehran’s constrained strategic posture, Israel’s security recalibrations, and Washington’s shifting diplomatic balancing act. But beneath the visible architecture of escalation and ceasefire management, a quieter development has begun to take shape—one that sits outside the usual frame of Middle Eastern analysis. By Nadia AhmadPakist…
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