{
  "id": 1439498,
  "title": "Pakistan has won the diplomacy, now comes the harder test",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/pakistan-has-won-the-diplomacy-now-comes-the-harder-test",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-17T07:00:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Asia Times",
    "slug": "asia-times",
    "url": "https://asiatimes.com/2026/08/pakistan-has-won-the-diplomacy-now-comes-the-harder-test/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Financial Times has run a striking assessment: Pakistan, it argues, has become an emerging “hinge power” – a state whose simultaneous ties to Washington, Beijing, the Gulf and Tehran let it broker where others can only choose sides. The evidence was hard to dispute. Islamabad hosted direct US-Iran talks. It signed the Makkah Joint […] The post Pakistan has won the diplomacy, now comes the…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}