The US-Iran ceasefire breakthrough came not from the United Nations or traditional European intermediaries, but through intense backchannel parleys by Islamabad, which took centre stage as a mediator.
Pakistan
Prime Minister
Shehbaz Sharif
and Army chief, Field Marshal
Asim Munir
, reportedly engaged US Vice President JD Vance and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to hammer out the tentative truce, although President Donald Trump stepped up to take credit.
