How Munir and Co used Trump, China and Iran to script Pakistan’s diplomatic comeback

Apocalypse was averted. A whole civilisation didn’t die. ‘Power plant day’ and ‘bridge day’ came and went. The ‘madman’ strategy of using grotesque rhetoric to signal extreme acts to keep the enemy off balance didn’t work. It required extras doing some play-acting to make it look like it did. A fragile two-week ceasefire emerged on Tuesday Washington time, fragile being the operative word.