PAKISTAN PERSPECTIVE

Islamabad covers Starmer's declaration with the interest of a country hosting US-Iran peace talks at the same moment. Dawn reports that Starmer, at the end of his Gulf tour, affirms that NATO serves 'American interests' — a plea for survival rather than conviction. For Pakistan, member of no Western alliance but host to mediation between Washington and Tehran, the Atlantic crisis is an instructive spectacle: America's closest allies are beginning to doubt publicly. When the British Prime Minister must plead with Trump to stay in NATO while Pakistan hosts US-Iran talks, the balance of power has shifted — Islamabad, often considered a pawn, finds itself a mediator while London becomes a supplicant.