Below is the quote from Neelam Deo;
“Pakistan has good reason to talk to both sides,” said Neelam Deo, director of Gateway House, a Mumbai-based policy research group. Iran has already built its end of a pipeline intended to carry gas to Pakistan, and the lifting of sanctions could help bring international funding — possibly from China — for Pakistan to finish the job, she said.
Pakistan also wants to show Saudi Arabia it remains supportive after refusing to assist the kingdom’s bombing campaign on Shiite rebels in Yemen. Still, Deo said, actual mediation remains a long way off and “Iran doesn’t have a shortage of suitors.”
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