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When Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif posted a carefully worded appeal on X in the early hours of Wednesday, requesting President Trump to extend his deadline by two weeks and simultaneously urging Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz as a gesture of goodwill, few expected that within hours the world would be exhaling its first collective breath of relief in over five weeks. But that is precisely what happened. Trump agreed to suspend aggressive attacks on Iran for two weeks, following direct conversations with PM Sharif and Pakistan's Army Chief Asim Munir. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi thanked Pakistan for its role in negotiations and confirmed that safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz would be permitted for the two-week period. The result of all that effort is now visible in the numbers that matter most to the ordinary people everywhere. Global markets reacted with ...
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