Regional powers—notably Saudi Arabia and Iran—are increasingly choosing a side in the ongoing fracas between New Delhi and Islamabad.

With the United States on the sidelines, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are trying to play a role as mediators.

Shopkeepers wait for customers at the main bazaar, a day after the ceasefire between Indian and Pakistan was announced, in Jura, near Line of Control, in Neelum Valley, a district of Pakistan’s administered Kashmir,