Pakistan, Jan. 27 -- The announcement and rapid institutionalisation of the Board of Peace (BOP) marks one of the most unusual experiments in contemporary international diplomacy, both in its origins and the surrounding controversy. First unveiled by President Donald Trump in September 2025 and formally chartered in January 2026 at the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the BOP was presented as a pragmatic mechanism to move stalled conflict zones toward stabilisation, beginning with Gaza after the recent atrocious war unleashed by Israel on Gaza. Its emergence, however, sits uneasily alongside already existing multilateral frameworks like the United Nations and the Middle East Quartet, comprising the USA, UK, Russia and the E...