00:00I just wondered, I mean, obviously, it would be a huge coup for Pakistan were Pakistan to successfully broke a
00:05peace between the United States and Iran.
00:09But I mean, that can't be the only incentive, is it? What do you think Pakistan's incentive is to help
00:14deescalate this conflict?
00:16You know, first of all, this would be a huge recognition of Pakistan's peace efforts.
00:21I would be very blatantly saying that because in the past, you know, the tag and the rap around Pakistan's
00:29all over identity as a country was the hostility towards Pakistan to, you know, advertise it as a hostile nation,
00:39as a terrorist nation.
00:40But in the due course of last four to five years, Pakistan has been successfully, you know, eliminating that haze
00:47and that smokescreen from its own identity.
00:51Right now, the main incentive for Pakistan is it would, you know, emerge as a country, peace loving interlocutor between
00:59the two top countries right now who are at war right now.
01:03So this is one incentive. But the second incentive is that Pakistan is a nuclear nation and being a nuclear
01:10nation, this sort of, you know, measures coming from the country who is itself, you know, at the danger of
01:17terrorism.
01:18We are tackling, you know, homogenous terrorist organizations right now, Pakistan, we are at, you know, at a very odd
01:28situation with Afghanistan right now.
01:30We are doing strikes to attack the TTP hideouts there.
01:33So these two are simultaneous bridges right now who are being carried by Pakistan, who are being dealt by Pakistan.
01:41But creating this ceasefire is in the favor in the larger interest of Asia, Europe and other countries who are
01:48dependent on huge oil transportations to Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandeep.
01:54If you know that if the double choking point creates, it would be a terrible situation, not for the Asians,
02:01but the Europeans as well.
02:02Yes, we have alternative solutions, but they are far, far from the reality.
02:06If we adopt them, the cost of that transportation from sea means it would be much, much higher.
02:12And we are already facing, you know, the effect of this war in our country.
02:17In my country, we have seen a lot of price hikes in petrol products.
02:21So it's going on.
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