Former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said Pakistan is certainly making “all-out efforts to achieve and sustain peace”.

“I don’t think that diplomacy is an event; it’s a process,” the former FM noted during an interview with CNN.

“And what we saw manifest in Islamabad post the ceasefire was also a result of a process of consistent diplomacy and engagement,” he said, referring to the Islamabad Talks.

“We’re trying to sustain this ceasefire and achieve a more permanent peace in the region. Of course, as you mentioned, there’s trust deficits between the conflicting parties but through diplomacy, we hope to at least find a middle ground,” Bilawal said.

He highlighted the “sheer cost of this conflict, not only in terms of human life, obviously in Iran but across the Middle East, and then the economic cost”.

“No country is isolated from its impact,” he added.