With the Middle East witnessing the most intense exchange of fire between the United States and Iran since the ceasefire started, Pakistan has appealed to all sides to exercise restraint and “give peace a little more chance.” Speaking in the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said that Pakistan, along with […]
Chance
A Fighting Chance
In Tehran, as Washington weighed its next move and Middle Eastern capitals watched the Strait of Hormuz, Chief of Defence Forces Syed Asim Munir sat across from Iran’s top leadership with a message the region urgently needed: no power can win from a burning Gulf. His meetings with President Masoud Pezeshkian, Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, […]
A Much-Needed Chance
There is a certain fatigue that greets every historic agreement announced in Islamabad. We have been here before: summits, memoranda, frameworks, and promises of billions. Yet this time, with Saudi Arabia’s decision to launch a structured economic and strategic cooperation framework with Pakistan, there is reason to believe the pattern could finally shift if Pakistan […]