ISLAMABAD: Pakistan pressed the United States and Iran on Tuesday to extend their two-week ceasefire and return to the negotiating table, even as a formal response from Tehran about attending a second round of US-Iran talks in Islamabad remained elusive and President Donald Trump signaled he was prepared to resume military strikes.
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Mixed signals from Tehran cloud second round of US-Iran talks even as Pakistan prepares for high-stakes meeting
ISLAMABAD: Uncertainty clouded plans for a second round of direct peace talks between the United States and Iran on Monday, even as President Donald Trump said a high-level American delegation led by Vice President JD Vance was en route to Islamabad and would arrive within hours.
Barbed wire goes up in Islamabad as US and Iran prepare for second round of negotiations amid renewed Hormuz crisis
ISLAMABAD: President Donald Trump said on Sunday that senior US officials will arrive in Pakistan’s capital on Monday evening for a new round of negotiations with Iran, an 11th-hour effort to salvage a fragile two-week ceasefire that Tehran has accused Washington of violating and that appeared near collapse after Iranian forces fired on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran recloses Strait of Hormuz, reports attacks on vessels as fragile US-Iran ceasefire frays
ISLAMABAD: Iranian gunboats opened fire on a tanker and a container ship was struck by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, hours after Tehran’s navy broadcast a radio warning that it was once again sealing the strategic waterway to all commercial traffic in retaliation for what it described as US violations of a fragile ceasefire.
With Hormuz Strait declared open, Trump thanks Pakistan, and presses for weekend talks to seal Iran nuclear accord
ISLAMABAD: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi announced on Friday that the Strait of Hormuz had been reopened to all commercial vessels, a significant easing of tensions in the Persian Gulf following a fragile US-brokered ceasefire in Lebanon.
Trump says he might travel to Islamabad if US-Iran deal is signed, pointing to weekend talks
ISLAMABAD: President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he might travel to Islamabad if a peace agreement with Iran is signed there, offering an optimistic assessment of the prospects for ending six weeks of conflict even as he warned that fighting could resume without a deal.
Pakistan says no date set for next US-Iran talks, stressing secrecy and continued diplomacy
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that no date had been fixed for a second round of direct negotiations between the United States and Iran, even as senior Pakistani officials pressed ahead with shuttle diplomacy to keep the two adversaries at the table.
As ceasefire nears deadline, Pakistan juggles talks in Riyadh and Tehran
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Landed in Jeddah on Wednesday for talks with the kingdom’s leadership, even as the army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, reached Tehran carrying what Iranian officials said a new message from Washington aimed at salvaging a fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran.
Trump says Iran talks likely back in Islamabad within days, lauds Field Marshal Munir’s ‘fantastic’ role
ISLAMABAD: President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that a second round of direct negotiations with Iran to end the seven-week war could resume in Islamabad as soon as the next two days, reversing an earlier suggestion that the talks might shift to Europe and signaling fresh momentum in the diplomatic push even as the United States enforces a naval blockade of Iranian ports.
US and Iran explore path back to the table
ISLAMABAD: A new round of in-person negotiations between the United States and Iran could be held as early as this week, multiple people familiar with the discussions said Tuesday, days after the highest-level direct talks between the two countries in nearly five decades collapsed without a breakthrough.