{"id":50515,"date":"2025-08-10T09:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T09:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=50515"},"modified":"2025-08-10T09:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T09:16:12","slug":"us-views-pakistan-as-a-stabilizing-actor-in-the-region-us-based-pakistani-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/us-views-pakistan-as-a-stabilizing-actor-in-the-region-us-based-pakistani-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cUS Views Pakistan as a Stabilizing Actor in the Region\u201d, US-based Pakistani Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50516\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IRS-USA-Pakistan-e1754817327497.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/>Islamabad: \u201cFor the US, Pakistan is a security guarantor and a stabilizing force in the region\u201d, says Mr Naad e Ali, a Middle Eastern expert based in Washington D.C. He was speaking at a roundtable discussion hosted by Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ali discussed how Pakistan gained strategic relevance in the eyes of President Trump. \u201cPresident Trump praises the countries having strategic clarity\u201d, he mentioned. Mr Ali argued that after the 12-day Iran-Israel war, the regime change objective of the US was transformed into containing Iran\u2019s ideological reach and change regime\u2019s behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>He further elaborated that any instability inside Iran would have a rippling effect on Pakistani side of Balochistan where the US was keen to explore rare earth minerals. Predicting the future US-Iran talks, Mr Ali argued that Pakistan could assume the role of a bridge builder in bringing Iran to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<p>Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Dr Samrez Salik highlighted Pakistan\u2019s soft power engagement with Iran and its consistent role in de-escalating regional conflicts. He emphasized the importance of maintaining cordial ties with Iran suggested that Pakistan\u2019s long-term strategic interests lie in regional stability. Maj. Gen (R) Samrez highlighted that Iran\u2019s defiance of the US was the longest standoff by a regional actor against the superpower in modern history.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, drawing lessons from the past, he argued that Pakistan had a long-history of mediating between the rival and over the years its role had matured. He also suggested that Iran had to rethink about its regional policy vis-\u00e0-vis India due to latter\u2019s close association with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in his remarks, Ambassador Jauhar Saleem, President IRS, mentioned Iran\u2019s nuclear capability was declared for peaceful purposes. \u201cIt is Pakistan\u2019s long-standing and principled stance of supporting Iran\u2019s right to peaceful nuclear technology\u201d, Amb Jauhar stressed.<\/p>\n<p>He also emphasized that the revival of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was essential. Amb Jauhar praised Pakistan\u2019s role of responsible diplomacy, adding that Islamabad once again acted as a stabilizing and mediating force in the regional crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: \u201cFor the US, Pakistan is a security guarantor and a stabilizing force in the region\u201d, says Mr Naad e Ali, a Middle Eastern expert based in Washington D.C. He was speaking at a roundtable discussion hosted by Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad. Mr Ali discussed how Pakistan gained strategic relevance in the eyes of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[2169,251,48,127,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50517,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50515\/revisions\/50517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}