Pakistan\u2019s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar confirmed Thursday that indirect negotiations between the United States and Iran were being held to end their war, using Islamabad as an intermediary.<\/p>\n
Dar, who is also deputy prime minister, described speculation about \u201cpeace talks\u201d as \u201cunnecessary,\u201d adding: \u201cIn reality, US-Iran indirect talks are taking place through messages being relayed by Pakistan.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this context, the United States has shared 15 points, being deliberated upon by Iran. Brotherly countries of Turkiye and Egypt, among others, are also extending their support to this initiative,\u201d he wrote on X, using Turkey\u2019s official name.<\/p>\n
Dar\u2019s comments are the first on-the-record confirmation from Islamabad that Pakistan is playing a facilitating role.<\/p>\n
Two senior officials told AFP on Wednesday that the US plan had been \u201cconveyed to Iran via Pakistan,\u201d but spoke anonymously as they were not authorized to speak to the media.<\/p>\n
Islamabad has been touted as a go-between given its longstanding ties with both neighboring Iran and the United States, as well as its network of regional contacts.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Dar have both been in regular contact with senior Iranian government officials, as well as their Gulf allies, notably Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
The powerful head of the Pakistan army, Field Marshal Asim Munir, has equally been involved in the diplomatic efforts, and spoke to US President Donald Trump last Sunday, officials said.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has denied any \u201cnegotiations\u201d with the administration in Washington but conceded that messages were being exchanged through \u201cfriendly countries.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt present, our policy is the continuation of resistance,\u201d he said on state television late on Wednesday. \u201cWe do not intend to negotiate — so far, no negotiations have taken place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pakistan\u2019s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar confirmed Thursday that indirect negotiations between the United States and Iran were being held to end their war, using Islamabad as an intermediary. Dar, who is also deputy prime minister, described speculation about \u201cpeace talks\u201d as \u201cunnecessary,\u201d adding: \u201cIn reality, US-Iran indirect talks are taking place through messages being relayed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnf24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnf24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnf24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnf24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnf24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnf24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6948,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnf24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947\/revisions\/6948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnf24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnf24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnf24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnf24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}