Iran war gives Pakistan its biggest diplomatic boost in decades

By Dan Strumpf and Tooba Khan, Bloomberg News Throughout the nearly four-month Iran war, few countries were more visibly at the center of the efforts to end it than Pakistan, an unlikely actor thrust into the spotlight by U.S. President Donald Trump. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was the first to announce in a social-media post this week that the U.S. and Iran had struck a truce now known as the “Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding.” Sharif’s signature is on the document as mediator, alongside those of Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. Sharif and Pakistani military chief Asim Munir emerged as…