Sushant Singh
When Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar recently called Pakistan a dalal, or fixer, for acting as a messenger between the United States and Iran, the insult betrayed a profound sense of marginalization. In a sense, it was also an involuntary acknowledgment of reality: In U.S. President Donald Trump’s eyes, being a fixer is not a mark of shame but a badge of utility.
Trump boasts of his ability to secure the best deals in history, and he has found in Pakistani Army chief Asim Munir exactly the sort of interlocutor that he likes—a hard-power operator with direct access to the White House and a willingness to sell himself as useful. This has left Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an awkward position, relegated to receiving a single phone call from Trump about the crisis in the Middle East (with Elon Musk listening in on the line).
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