ISLAMABAD: US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday evening that the United States would temporarily halt its newly launched naval operation to escort stranded commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, saying the pause would allow time for negotiations toward a broader agreement to end the conflict with Iran.
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Iran claims strike on US warship near Hormuz as Trump’s ‘Project Freedom’ begins; Pentagon denies attack
ISLAMABAD: Iran said on Monday that its forces had turned back a US warship attempting to enter the Strait of Hormuz, with state-affiliated media reporting that two missiles struck the vessel near the southern Iranian port of Jask.
Dar presses Iran for diplomacy as Tehran reviews US response to 14-point peace plan
ISLAMABAD: Deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Ishaq Dar, held a late-night telephone call with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday, reaffirming Islamabad’s determination to revive stalled peace talks between Washington and Tehran even as the economic fallout from the conflict continues to ripple across global energy markets.
Pakistan reassigns three Islamabad High Court judges amid sharp criticism over opaque process
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Law and Justice on Wednesday notified the transfer of three judges from the Islamabad High Court to other provincial high courts, a day after the Judicial Commission of Pakistan approved the moves in a decision that immediately drew sharp criticism from lawyers’ organizations for what they described as a lack of transparency and uniform standards.
UPDATED: US blockade of Iranian ports begins as Trump warns any approaching ships ‘will be immediately eliminated’
ISLAMABAD: The US naval blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports began on schedule Monday, hours after the collapse of high-level talks in Pakistan, with President Donald Trump warning that any Iranian vessels — including “fast attack ships” — approaching the operation “will be immediately ELIMINATED.”
UPDATED: US-Iran talks collapse in Islamabad after marathon 21-hour session, Tehran rejects Washington’s core demands over nuclear program
ISLAMABAD: Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday the United States and Iran had failed to reach any agreement after more than 21 hours of direct, high-stakes negotiations here, the first face-to-face talks between senior officials of the two nations in more than four decades and the highest-level contact since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
US and Iran fail to reach agreement after 21 hours of direct talks in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday the United States and Iran had made no breakthrough after 21 hours of substantive, face-to-face negotiations in Pakistan’s capital, the first direct talks between senior officials from the two countries since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
UPDATED: US and Iran meet face to face after decades, testing a fragile path out of war
ISLAMABAD: Direct talks between the United States and Iran, mediated by Pakistan, stretched into a third round on Sunday as teams of experts from both sides pored over one another’s demands in an effort to convert a two-week-old ceasefire into a permanent end to six weeks of devastating conflict.
UPDATED: Historic direct US Iran talks begin in Islamabad
By Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: United States Vice President JD Vance and the Iranian delegation led by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf began direct face-to-face negotiations
UPDATED: Sharif pushes durable peace as Vance and Ghalibaf converge in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif held separate meetings on Saturday with the top American and Iranian delegations as high-stakes negotiations opened here to transform a fragile two-week ceasefire into a lasting end to the six-week Middle East war that has killed thousands, disrupted global energy supplies and shaken the world economy.