The widening conflict is forcing neighboring countries into crisis mode. Pakistan’s Dawn reported that President Asif Ali Zardari chaired a high-level meeting in Islamabad attended by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir. The meeting focused squarely on the implications of the US-Israel war on Iran for Pakistan’s security, economic outlook, and food security.
The communiqué stressed the importance of “national consensus and institutional coordination” — language that signals genuine alarm about the regional trajectory. Pakistan, which shares a long border with Iran, is acutely vulnerable to any spillover from the conflict.
