Why India is rankled by Pakistan playing mediator in US-Iran war
The quiet conclusion of US and Iranian backchannel engagements in Islamabad left more than diplomatic ambiguity.
It crystallised a striking image: a financially strained, politically volatile Pakistan briefly positioning itself as a facilitator in one of the world’s most combustible rivalries.
Substantive or symbolic, the episode underscores a deeper churn in West Asian geopolitics – one in which agility trumps credibility.
Pakistan’s role was not incidental.
Islamabad offered itself as a...
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