A perspective from Pakistan on the recent Iranian-Israeli conflict By Dure Akram, from Lahore / Pakistan Earlier this month, the United States launched coordinated airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites: Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. These facilities were under IAEA inspection. There was no Security Council mandate. No evidence of an imminent attack. The justification, presented as “collective self-defense” on behalf ...
By Dure Akram, Lahore, Pakistan “In Friendship” between Pakistan and Iran, “We Trust”, billboards celebrated in Urdu and Persian dotting not just the federal capital Islamabad but also Lahore and Karachi this week, as Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif brought out an unexpected ace out of his foreign policy deck. There may not have been much to read into such ...