Pakistan, May 22 -- Pakistan finds itself at the centre stage of world politics; it brokered a cease-fire, hosted the peace talks, and its leaders shuttled between world capitals to bring the region and the world to peace. Pakistan finds itself being squeezed by the USA on one side and simultaneously by the consequences of this war on the other. On 8 April 2026, just a few weeks ago, a nuclear war was potentially building up, only hours before President Trump had posted on Truth Social: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again". Pakistan, however, stepped in, negotiating a ceasefire framework based on the ten-point Iranian proposals, and it worked; temporarily, though, it worked. Four weeks down the road, the...