Most strikingly, the conflict seems to have restored something Pakistan had long lost: geopolitical relevance. Its emergence as an intermediary in the Iran war caught many by surprise.
“Pakistan has rebuilt relevance,” says Christopher Clary, a security affairs expert at the University at Albany.
“Pakistani leaders are conducting shuttle diplomacy throughout the Middle East. The question is whether it is transitory and merely the product of the US president’s idiosyncratic preferences.”
The revival has unfolded amid wider geopolitical churn.
- How India and Pakistan de-escalated in the past
- How real is the risk of nuclear war between India and Pakistan?
- How Pakistan became mediator in the Iran war.
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