Mediation at the Edge of Pakistan’s Strategic Reach
BY SHAFQAT ALI QURESHI There are moments in diplomacy when a state appears to acquire sudden relevance not because it has become stronger, richer, or more coherent, but because geography, relationships, and timing briefly place it at the hinge of someone else’s crisis.
Pakistan and the Return of a Harder Iran
For much of the past two decades, Pakistan’s Iran policy has rested on a comforting ambiguity. Tehran was difficult, often confrontational, and frequently disruptive in the wider region, yet it was still assumed to be governed by a layered internal order in which
Border Tensions and Crisis Management Diplomacy Pakistan Iran
The frontier between Pakistan and Iran constitutes one of the most politically sensitive and structurally complex borderlands in contemporary Eurasian geopolitics, where state sovereignty, insurgent mobility, informal economies, sectarian identities, and competing security doctrines converge into a persistently unstable equilibrium. This border is
Tehran’s Expanding Influence in Syria and Its Implications for Pakistan’s Western Security Landscape
Iran’s foreign policy over the past two decades has been marked by a deliberate pursuit of strategic depth and regional leverage, prioritizing influence projection in neighboring countries and beyond in order to safeguard its core national security and ideological interests. Central to this