President Donald Trump's demand to expand the Trump Abraham Accords expansion Pakistan Turkey Saudi framework has ignited a firestorm of diplomatic resistance. What the White House envisioned as a historic capstone to the Iran peace deal is instead colliding with decades of entrenched foreign policy. Why is Trump demanding Pakistan join the Abraham Accords? For Washington, bringing Pakistan into the accords would be a strategic coup . As a nuclear-armed nation of over 240 million Muslims and a critical player in regional stability, Pakistan's participation would legitimize the accords across the broader Muslim world . Trump's calculation appears to be that linking normalization to an end of the Iran conflict—which has closed the Strait of Hormuz for nearly three months—creates irresistible pressure on Islamabad to abandon its long-standing refusal to recognize Israel . Why did Pakistan reject Trump's Abraham Accords proposal? Islamabad's response was swift and unequ...