ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is working with regional countries to prevent the Iran conflict from widening into a broader war, its ambassador to Saudi Arabia said this week, praising what he described as a pragmatic response by Gulf states to Iranian attacks.
The conflict erupted after joint US-Israeli strikes on Iranian targets toward the end of last month, prompting retaliatory Iranian attacks across the region and raising fears of a wider Middle East war.
The fighting has disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital route for global energy supplies, sending jitters through oil markets and threatening trade flows for countries reliant on Gulf imports.
Pakistan has urged restraint from all sides, Ambassador Ahmad Farooq said, adding that the response by Saudi Arabia and other regional states has helped prevent the situation from escalating further.
“As you are aware, Pakistan had when the conflict started, condemned the attack on Iran, and we have also condemned, equally strongly, the attacks which have come from Iran against all other countries in the region,” he told a local media outlet, We News English, in an interview distributed by Pakistan’s embassy in Riyadh.
