Pakistan as Mediator: The Channel Through Which Both Hormuz Proposals Move
Pakistan brokered the 8 April ceasefire, hosted the Islamabad Talks of 10-11 April, and now carries the 14-point Iranian proposal and the United States response between Tehran and Washington. Pakistan also imports more than 85% of its crude through Hormuz. This post reads the mediation as institutional infrastructure of a temporary kind, identifies what the mediation can and cannot do, and explains where Pakistan would sit in any working chokepoint authority.