ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Friday that the United States and Iran had reached agreement on a final text for a peace deal to end more than three months of armed conflict — even as the two sides offered sharply conflicting accounts of what that deal actually contained, casting uncertainty over one of the most consequential diplomatic developments of the year.
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Trump calls off Iran strikes, claims deal nearing as conflict edges toward abyss
ISLAMABAD: US President Donald Trump abruptly canceled a planned military assault on Iran on Thursday evening, announcing in a post on Truth Social that negotiations with Tehran had advanced to the point where the Islamic Republic’s leadership had effectively approved the terms of a deal — a claim Iran had not confirmed as of late Thursday.
Trump threatens to seize Iranian oil hub as US-Iran strikes escalate, ceasefire frays
ISLAMABAD: US President Trump threatened on Thursday to seize Iran’s principal oil export terminal and assume control of its energy sector as American and Iranian forces exchanged strikes for a second consecutive day, pushing a fragile two-month-old ceasefire to the edge of collapse and rattling global oil markets already strained by months of war.
US and Iran trade fire across the Gulf, testing a ceasefire neither side has fully honored
ISLAMABAD: The United States and Iran exchanged military strikes early on Wednesday, drawing three American-allied Arab states into the crossfire and threatening to collapse the most significant diplomatic opening between Washington and Tehran in decades, as President Trump alternated between warning that Iran would “pay the price” and insisting that a comprehensive peace deal remained tantalizingly close.
Pakistan presses peace as Iran, Israel trade blows for first time since April ceasefire
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called on Monday for all sides to “give peace a little more chance” after Iran and Israel traded fire for the first time since an April ceasefire, in an escalation that complicated Islamabad’s intensive mediation efforts and rattled global markets.
Israel strikes Iran despite Trump appeal for restraint, threatening peace talks
ISLAMABAD: Israel struck military targets across western and central Iran early on Monday, defying a direct appeal from President Trump to hold fire, in the most serious breach of a regional ceasefire since fighting paused in April and the exchange that US officials fear could unravel ongoing peace negotiations with Tehran.
Pakistan delivers sealed message to Iran’s wounded supreme leader as Middle East war enters its 100th day
ISLAMABAD: A sealed brown envelope changed hands in Tehran on Sunday. In it, according to Iranian state media, was a written message from Pakistan’s prime minister addressed to Iran’s supreme leader — a man who has not been seen in public since he was wounded in the opening hours of a war that has now dragged on for one hundred days.
Pakistan races to save US-Iran ceasefire after new exchanges of fire
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s interior minister landed in Tehran on Saturday carrying personal messages from the country’s prime minister and its most powerful general, as Islamabad scrambled to hold together a ceasefire between the United States and Iran that appeared increasingly at risk of unraveling.
AJK government brands leading protest group a terrorist organisation days before planned strike
MUZAFFARABAD: The government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir formally banned the region’s most prominent protest movement on Friday, designating it a terrorist organisation and deploying thousands of paramilitary and police reinforcements as tensions mounted ahead of a planned mass demonstration and the region’s first general elections in years.
Azad Kashmir orders tourists out as security forces mass ahead of protest strike
MUZAFFARABAD: The government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir told tourists to leave its mountain valleys immediately on Friday, as convoys of paramilitary troops rolled into the regional capital and authorities quietly braced for what officials feared could become the territory’s most destabilizing unrest in months.