"If there were not an Israel, we’d have to invent one,” Joe Biden had said long back in 1986.
There's a theory - called the bigger power of the biggest mischief maker.
In 2026; Donald Trump must be saying - "If there were no Pakistan and if there was no Munir ... we would have to inven them".
Welcome to human world's biggest dilemma of circa 2026.
A rogue nation is hosting the most crucial Peace Summit of the new century. Pakistan is a country well known as one that plays hide and seek with Terror and FATF norms !!
More about 'power of lobbying' vis-a-vis Israel. You should get a better clue.
In the US, for example, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby has spent $221m since December 2021, including on huge donations to political campaigns. Of course Pakistan is a beggar country and ask Trump - he would say ---
"an useful beggar under my favourite Field Marshal".
It may this way. The best hope for the ceasefire talks in Pakistan is that both the United States and Iran have strong reasons to call a halt to the war.
The biggest obstacle to their success is a total absence of trust.
Ask Shehbaz Sharif; he may have to agree that there is no discernible common ground.
Moreover, Israel, America's full partner in the war, has hugely escalated its onslaught on Lebanon. Israel also gave a mouthful to Pakistan and its foreign minister.
There are a few more interesting stuff.
The Pakistani intermediaries including the country's PM - who circulated a 'draft tweet' will have to be shuttling between the two delegations.
Pak diplomats - poor fellows - will have a tough job on their hands.
The declared positions of the two sides are as far apart as it is possible to be.
Trump has his 15-point plan that has not been officially released but "leaked" deliberately.
Iranian diplomats know what Washington wants is more like a surrender document.
Pakistan is the interlicutor?
On the other hand, Iran's 10-point plan contains a list of demands that America has consistently rejected in the past.
Even informal sources in India say creating a meaningful atmosphere for Peace so that Pakistanis and Indian Sickular gang led by Congress leaders can celebrate; they would need something more on the table. They would need some kind of agreement to at least keep talking.
Moreover, time is limited. 15 days.
For more drama; Donald Trump is already speaking about the war in the 'past tense'.
He has declared victory. But he needs an exit route. Vice President J D Vance will be thinking about 2028 Presidential election more than the Iran-US issues.
The US President is behaving like India's very own Rahul Gandhi. Only jeans and T-shirt is missing.
Not only does Trump have a state visit from King Charles later this month, he also seeks to hold a summit meet with China's President Xi Jinping in May.
November 2026 is midterm elections in the US.
The Americans will needs petrol prices to fall.
But Trump is superb capable. He mistook Persian DNA with those in Venezuela.
So he has to make a good combo of War with high-flying diplomatic engagements, Royal visits and an irritant called mid-term elections.
Now, come to Pakistan's third neighbour - Iran.
Two others are very much well known India and Afghanistan.
Iran's regime has "own reasons" to press Peace button.
But it has remained as defiant as ever. It still knows and have the appetite to launch missiles and drones.
Truth is - Iran has suffered massive damage since Feb 28th.
Cities have come to an economic standstill and the regime needs time to regroup.
Look the other way again. Trump openly defies international law – but the rest of the world aso understand that the so-called international law was already in ruins.
India too knows it and so does Israel, Russia and China.
Israel committed war crimes in Gaza with western-supplied weapons. Since the international criminal court issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, many western states have refused to honour them.
The international judges were put on a sanctions list by the US and the European governments forgot 'lectures on Democracy' and abandoned them.
For a change, as Indians we must sympathise with Pakistanis.
Hope for Miracles while drawing strength from the Ghazal:
"Chupke chupke asu behena ....".
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