What does the UAE have to gain from India-Pakistan peace?

hen India and Pakistan announced a ceasefire along their de facto border last month – dialling down months of hostility – the name of the country which apparently helped broker this peace deal among the nuclear-armed neighbours took some by surprise.

United Arab Emirates (UAE) — the oil-rich Western Asian neighbour of arch-rivals New Delhi and Islamabad — is fast emerging as a soft power in the geopolitical region, moving from militarisation to diplomacy.

Regional experts told The Independent that the UAE primarily had three reasons to negotiate the talks — it wants to project itself as a key player in regional politics, elbow out Qatar, and to pander to the new administration in the United States.