Pakistan Bets on Security and Trade as Ties with Iran Grow

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Pakistan is enhancing its security and trade relations with Iran, playing a mediating role in the US/Israel conflict involving Iran. Key Pakistani leaders have raised the country’s profile through pragmatic diplomacy focused on regional stability and enduring neighborly ties.

Pakistan has played a key role as a mediator in the U.S./Israel war on Iran. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Defence Forces, have raised Pakistan’s profile so much that Foreign Affairs gushed “Pakistan Won the War in Iran.” Pakistan’s leaders are practical men with working relations with Washington and Tehran and are not performing good works to save their immortal souls, but because Pakistan and Iran are “neighbors forever” and they are looking to…