Welcome to Foreign Policy ’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Pakistan faces rising risks as U.S.-Iran talks falter, India’s ruling party suffers a rare legislative defeat , and a Nepali cabinet minister grapples with a scandal amid the new government’s anti-corruption crusade. Will Pakistan Lose Its Diplomatic Bet? When Pakistan agreed to serve as a mediator in the Iran war, it surely knew that brokering peace between two mistrustful rivals wouldn’t be easy. Recent days have been