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For much of the recent past Pakistan has maintained a cautious posture toward the Middle East region, reflecting domestic political turbulence and economic crises. This era of passive diplomacy, however, appears to be over. Pakistan’s re-engagement with the Middle East is the emergence of a more confident, purposeful foreign policy as Islamabad begins to recognize that stability in the Gulf is inseparable from stability at home.

Islamabad has discernibly begun to assert a more ambitious regional role calibrated to shifting geopolitical realities and rising security risks across the broader region. By strengthening its security partnership with Riyadh, engaging constructively with global diplomatic platforms and actively opposing a catastrophic regional war, it is stepping into a role that reflects both its responsibilities and its interests.

At the heart of this recalibration is a recognition in Pakistan that the region may be back on the edge of another major instability with dangerous consequences for all. 

While regional security anxieties are at their peak and Pakistan seemingly remains at the periphery, Islamabad understands that a war that has once erupted doesn’t recognize other........

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