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Between escalation and engagement: Pakistan keeps hope for peace alive

WASHINTON: Between the steady drumbeat of military escalation and the fragile stirrings of diplomacy, Pakistan has positioned itself as a rare and consequential channel of engagement in a crisis that threatens to widen into a full-scale regional war. By late Monday, speculation in the US capital ...

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