ISLAMABAD — As the Iran-Israel conflict rolls on, Pakistan is walking a tightrope between maintaining the country’s position as an important part of the Islamic world in diplomacy and closing the border with Iran to mitigate a spillover effect on the ground.
Since Friday, the day Israel launched strikes on Iran, Ishaq Dar, Pakistan’s foreign minister, has intensified diplomatic interactions. According to posts in the ministry’s X account, Dar held phone calls with the foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey, Egypt, UAE and the U.K. to stress Pakistan’s concern over the deteriorating regional situation. He called the Israeli attacks “unjustified.”
