Bangladesh, Oct. 1 -- As President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled a 20-point blueprint this week to end the two-year war in Gaza, capitals across the Muslim world moved quickly to register their positions — some cautious, some enthusiastic. Pakistans Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif surprised observers by publicly “welcoming” the plan and praising Trumps leadership. That fleeting warmth from Islamabad is being read in some quarters as an opening: can Pakistan now be nudged — or pressured — into abandoning a decades-old official posture of non-recognition and move toward normalization under the umbrella of an expanded Abraham Accords era?

The question is not idle. For Washington, the...