Pakistan’s growing role as a diplomatic power in the Middle East
Amid the intensifying US-Israeli conflict with Iran and the ongoing strikes between the two sides, alongside the broader volatility in the Gulf, Pakistan has emerged as a key diplomatic player. Islamabad has...
Breaking point as US allies look beyond Trump era
US President Donald Trump’s first term of office strained relationships with much of the world, especially Europe. However, the shockwaves from his second presidency since 2025 may now mean that even more...
Deeper ties with Gulf states will strengthen NATO alliance
The war in Iran has resulted in no shortage of geopolitical consequences for policymakers around the globe. From high energy prices to key shipping lanes being closed, leaders from Europe to the...
Preparing for the post-Iran war era
The Middle East stands at a dangerous inflection point. The confrontation involving Iran, Israel and the US is not merely another episode in a long cycle of regional tensions — it is...
The war against Iran is anything but over, and Passover can be no complacent...
The nuclear danger, the missile threat, the potent proxies, the domestic oppression — none of these regime menaces has been definitively overcome. For Israel and the...
Regional quartet offer Trump a final off-ramp
The four-way foreign ministers’ meeting held in Islamabad on Sunday may be the region’s best — and last — chance to arrest the slide toward full-scale war in the Arabian Gulf and...
Pakistan should be empowered to mediate end to Iran war
Israel surprisingly struck close to the Pakistan Embassy in Tehran on Thursday. This was not by chance. The area near the embassy was hit because Pakistan is trying to play a role in ending...
A war imposed, a peace shaped by Riyadh and Islamabad
The Islamabad meeting of the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkiye and Egypt has now produced a clear and consequential outcome: Pakistan has been firmly established as the principal venue for...
Children pay the highest price in Middle East conflict
I visited Beirut this week, where this war is devastating children and families yet again, with more than 1 million people forcibly displaced from their homes.
I saw first-hand...
The far-reaching implications of Israel’s Caspian Sea strikes
With much of the world’s attention on the Arabian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, there is another body of water that has become a focal point of the war with Iran:...