Using the U.S. State Department’s 3 July 2012 readout on reopening Pakistan’s supply routes after Salala, this study operationalises the Agentless Causation Composite (ACC), a clause-level diagnostic combining collectivisation, agent reduction (passives, deletion, causatives), and calibrated modality. Analysis shows ACC clustering at decision edges, where attribution and commitment are negotiated. In the absence of a Pakistan Foreign Office text, the Pakistan-side position is reconstructed through triangulated contemporaneous reporting, with claims limited to press-mediated discourse. Feature counts and co-occurrence patterns show ACC-dense clauses aligning with key policy shifts on 3 July and declining in later coverage. A reception check traces the emergence of an “apology” frame in Pakistani media. ACC integrates social-actor representation, transitivity, and modality into a single diagnostic and identifies where strategic ambiguity concentrates and how it circulates across audiences. Supporting materials include a codebook, clause IDs, and a reliability subset.