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Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs Pakistan’s Defense Dilemma The Mecca Pact creates new opportunities for Islamabad—and new headaches. RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP via Getty Images Pakistan has long practiced a careful balancing act to manage relations with Iran and the Gulf Arab monarchies. But against the backdrop of the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, and the emergence of Yemen and the Red Sea as the “Western Front ” of this regional crisis, the balancing act is getting harder to sustain. Pakistan has strong strategic and economic ties with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf…Open
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The government asked for an immediate halt to the lower court orders that ruled the migrants must have the chance to object before the U.S. deports them to third countries.
The department said there have been 647 attacks on ICE agents between January 2025 and September 2026, compared to 37 under the Biden administration in the same period.
