Analysts from Pakistan and India are raising alarms over the growing risk of military escalation in South Asia and the broader region, as Pakistan deepens its strategic entanglements across multiple conflict theatres. Pakistan has emerged as a key diplomatic mediator in the ongoing US-Iran war — now in its third month — facilitating ceasefires and prisoner transfers, while simultaneously deploying military aircraft to Saudi Arabia under a mutual defence pact signed in late 2025. Experts warn that Islamabad's expanding military commitments, its arsenal of Chinese-made weapons, and its delicate balancing act between Washington, Tehran, and Beijing could stretch its strategic capacity and heighten the risk of miscalculation in an already volatile region.