For many days now, the world’s been trying to make sense of Pakistan’s emergence as a key actor in the peace talks between Iran and the US. I’m going to be looking today in particular at how Iran and Pakistan came to be enmeshed in a closed geopolitical embrace. What you might call a ‘friends with benefits’ relationship and why that relationship sometimes became very, very poisonous. The story has all the elements of a great novel. Geopolitics, faith, wealth, hubris, betrayal, it was all there. That very day, 15 October 1971, as Empress Farah and the Shah entered the…
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