Pakistan's dramatic rise as mediator in the US-Iran war has stunned the world. But behind Islamabad's remarkable diplomatic moment sits a far more powerful and far more deliberate hand.

India and Pakistan are locked in a rapidly escalating military exchange that threatens to explode into a fully fledged war, triggered by a deadly attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22 in which 26 civilians were killed, but rooted in decades-old hostilities. On May 7, India launched a wave of missiles into Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, striking at least six ...

Pakistan has emerged as a key intermediary in the U.S-Israel war with Iran. It played this role before, during a high-stakes moment in diplomatic history.

A defining development in the unfolding Gulf crisis has been the quadrilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Trkiye, and Egypt held in Islamabad on 28-29 March. This was not a routine diplomatic consultation;

A weekslong war between Pakistan and Afghanistan was paused on March 18, 2026, to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. But that does not mean the conflict is over. Neither side showed any indication that the planned five-day cessation of operations ...

Imran Qureshi, detail from ‘Where the Shadows are so Deep’ (2015) at The Curve, Barbican Centre (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noteD) LONDON — Pakistan is not an old nation state, but its history — and, indeed, its ...

ISLAMABAD- Pakistan’s neglect of the crumbling Dera Tahli Sahib, a Sikh shrine in Lahore, is not an isolated case but part of a broader tragedy with countless Sikh heritage sites across the country’s rural and urban landscapes fading from memory, a ...

The post by Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif, shared before Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire, has gone viral.