{"id":76859,"date":"2026-03-29T15:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/29\/israeli-strikes-us-troop-buildup-pakistan-peacemaker-role-under-pressure"},"modified":"2026-03-29T15:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:00:48","slug":"israeli-strikes-and-us-troop-buildup-put-pakistans-peacemaker-role-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76859","title":{"rendered":"Israeli strikes and US troop buildup put Pakistan\u2019s peacemaker role under pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad is attempting high-wire diplomacy between US and Iran, but Israel could spoil any chance of success <\/p>\n<p>Intensifying Israeli bombing of civilian targets in Iran and an expanding US military force in the Gulf are casting a dark shadow over Pakistan\u2019s hopes of hosting peace talks between Iran and the US.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/24\/pakistan-army-chief-iran-peace-talks-trump-call\">attempting high-wire diplomacy<\/a>, using its relative neutrality as a country with good relations with Iran and the US, to provide a venue for negotiations. It is not a player in the Middle East and does not host any American military bases, so it does not bring the baggage of other potential regional mediators.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/29\/israeli-strikes-us-troop-buildup-pakistan-peacemaker-role-under-pressure\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad is attempting high-wire diplomacy between US and Iran, but Israel could spoil any chance of success Intensifying Israeli bombing of civilian targets in Iran and an expanding US military force in the Gulf are casting a dark shadow over Pakista&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415,448,212,60,47,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pakistan","category-us-news","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76860,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76859\/revisions\/76860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}