Ambassador Mumtaz Zahra Baloch suggests the recent diplomatic truce is less about outright victory and more about the survival and recalibration of power. She notes that the ongoing situation involves competing narratives, with neither side achieving definitive victory.

François Picard is pleased to welcome Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, Ambassador of Pakistan to France and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO. According to Ambassador Zahra Baloch, this is less about victory in the conventional sense and more about the survival and recalibration of power. What we are witnessing is not the end of a war, but the emergence of competing narratives that each side must sustain for political legitimacy: both sides claim success, yet neither has truly secured any semblance of victory.