{"id":76960,"date":"2026-04-09T03:09:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/08\/pakistan-us-israel-iran-ceasefire"},"modified":"2026-04-09T03:09:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:09:54","slug":"how-pakistan-secured-biggest-diplomatic-win-in-years-with-iran-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76960","title":{"rendered":"How Pakistan secured \u2018biggest diplomatic win in years\u2019 with Iran ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say Pakistani officials\u2019 efforts led to breakthrough that has helped avert catastrophe, at least for now<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/08\/iran-war-ceasefire-live-updates-trump-deadline-middle-east-crisis-latest-news\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s leaders had almost lost hope. After more than two weeks of frantic negotiations, phonecalls and diplomatic summits to try to end the US-Israeli war with Iran, it looked like the conflict might instead be escalating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/07\/israel-warns-iran-lives-at-risk-if-they-use-trains-trump-deadline\">into Islamabad\u2019s worst nightmare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a cabinet meeting held at about 5pm on Tuesday, Pakistan\u2019s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, was morose. \u201cWe should brace ourselves for the impact of the war,\u201d he told his cabinet ministers. \u201cThe situation has really become very bleak. The chance of peace has become dim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/08\/pakistan-us-israel-iran-ceasefire\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say Pakistani officials\u2019 efforts led to breakthrough that has helped avert catastrophe, at least for nowMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updatesPakistan\u2019s leaders had almost lost hope. After more than two weeks of frantic negotiations, phonecalls and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3046,"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":[415,448,1005,212,60,61,554,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-iran","category-israel","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-trump-administration","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\/76960","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\/3046"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76963,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76960\/revisions\/76963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}