Donald Trump has long favoured high-profile diplomacy and may want to fly in himself if Pakistan offers the chance for a final deal or landmark announcement, meaning JD Vance would likely need to stay home in Washington or return from Islamabad first.
After the Islamabad Talks, Pakistan reportedly launched a major air operation to escort Iran’s negotiators home amidst an Israeli terror threat, reflecting both the danger hanging over the diplomatic track and Islamabad’s increasingly central role in trying to keep dialogue alive.
فیلڈ مارشل عاصم منیر ایران بحران میں پاکستان کے سب سے اہم سفارتی چہرے کے طور پر سامنے آئے ہیں۔ تہران، واشنگٹن اور خلیجی دارالحکومتوں کے درمیان رابطہ کاری میں ان کا کردار مرکزی رہا، جبکہ پاکستان ایک غیر متوقع مگر مؤثر ثالث کے طور پر ابھرا ہے۔
Donald Trump has said fresh US-Iran talks in Islamabad could take place within days, reinforcing Pakistan’s growing role as a mediator. Why, he says? "Because the Field Marshal is doing a great job."
From calls with Tehran and Gulf capitals to ceasefire diplomacy and marathon talks in Islamabad, Pakistan has inserted itself into the most delicate phase of the U.S.-Iran crisis and emerged as an unlikely broker of dialogue.
On the first anniversary of Marka-e-Haq, Pakistan's military has dismissed the Indian Army Chief's "geography or history" warning as the rhetoric of a state suffering "a bankruptcy of cognitive capacities", and has reminded Delhi that any attempt to target a nuclear neighbour would be neither geographically confined nor politically survivable.
Senior US Congressman Jack Bergman, Co-Chair of the Congressional Pakistan Caucus, has formally thanked Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir for Pakistan's role in the ongoing US-Iran peace negotiations, describing Islamabad's contribution as "indispensable" and a demonstration of "true statesmanship" in a letter dated 15 May and sent on House of Representatives letterhead.
اسلام آباد کی بڑھتی سفارتی حیثیت نے اسے بیانیے کی جنگ کا ہدف بنا دیا ہے۔ نیتن یاہو کے بیانات سے لِنڈسے گراہم کی تنقید تک اور بھارتی میڈیا کے منظم بیانیہ سے پاکستان کے اندر نئے دہشتگردانہ حملوں تک ایک نئی مخالفانہ لَہر اُبھرتی دکھائی دے رہی ہے۔
The Institute of Regional Studies hosted a seminar in Islamabad on Greater Eurasia, where speakers from Pakistan, Türkiye and Azerbaijan called for deeper connectivity, stronger trade corridors and closer strategic cooperation in a rapidly changing multipolar order.
Pakistan’s growing diplomatic relevance has triggered a sharper narrative war, with foreign criticism, hostile media framing and domestic security incidents being used to cast Islamabad as unstable just as it re-enters the centre of regional diplomacy.