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.
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Islamabad locks down Red Zone, suspends transit as US and Iran prepare for possible second round of peace talks
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s capital sealed its most sensitive districts and suspended public transportation across the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi on Sunday as authorities braced for the possible arrival of senior American and Iranian delegations for a second round of direct peace negotiations aimed at ending a seven-week Middle East conflict.
Imran Khan’s wife petitions Islamabad court for suspension of corruption sentence, citing medical crisis after unannounced eye surgery
ISLAMABAD: Bushra Bibi, the wife of former prime minister Imran Khan, asked Islamabad High Court on Saturday to suspend her seven-year prison sentence in a major corruption case, arguing that her health had deteriorated sharply after an eye operation performed in custody without her family’s knowledge or consent.
Field Marshal Munir ends Iran trip and Prime Minister Sharif returns from three-nation tour as Islamabad races to salvage US-Iran ceasefire
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s most powerful military officer wrapped up a three-day visit to Iran on Saturday while Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif returned from a whirlwind tour of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Türkiye, in a coordinated diplomatic offensive aimed at transforming a precarious two-week-old ceasefire between Tehran and Washington into a lasting regional settlement.
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.
Sharif and Erdogan urge swift action to lock in fragile Mideast ceasefire as Islamabad’s mediation push intensifies
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday stressed the need to “effectively utilise the current window of opportunity” to forge a durable peace in the Middle East, capping a day of high-level diplomacy here as Pakistan presses to convert a two-week-old ceasefire between the United States, Israel and Iran into a lasting agreement.
Pakistan deploys two dozen fighter jets to escort Iranian negotiators home after inconclusive US talks, citing fears of Israeli attack
By Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: Pakistani fighter jets and surveillance aircraft provided an extensive air escort last weekend to a high-level Iranian delegation returning from inconclusive
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.