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peace As [Pakistan](https://www.theguardian.com/world/pakistan) works frantically to narrow differences between Iran and the US in its newfound role as global peacemaker, it is also seeking to recast its diplomatic standing and attract business
Pakistan’s role switched in recent days to a lower-profile but urgent task of running a backchannel, after momentum behind direct talks stalled. Islamabad believes the peace process can still make progress without
Iran, welcomed the Israel-Lebanon truce on Friday and expressed “hope that it will pave the way for sustainable peace”. He also praised the mediation [role of US President Donald Trump](/news/2026/4/16/trump-says-israel-and-lebanon-agree-to-temporary-ceasefire), who has invited
talks in Pakistan and nowhere else, because we trust Pakistan,” he said. Muhammad Faisal, a Pakistani security analyst and scholar at the University of Technology Sydney, said the parallel outreach reflected a deliberate division
role was played by China. They became a guarantor of the ceasefire and pledged that the US would standby the agreement and that talks would go smoothly in Islamabad. They told Iran to accept this
US-Iranian talks in [Pakistan](https://www.theguardian.com/world/pakistan) scheduled for Saturday. Pezeshkian vowed Iran would not abandon the Lebanese people. According to Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Saeed Khatibzadeh, [Iran](https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran) had been
Pakistan, Iran has in recent weeks sought multistage negotiations, with a preliminary deal aimed at ending the war, and negotiations on the White House’s demands that Tehran end its nuclear programme pushed for later
role in attempting to mediate an end to the war between the US and Iran. On April 8, the US and Iran announced a Pakistan-mediated [two-week ceasefire](/features/2026/4/8/how-pakistan-managed-to-get-the-us-and-iran-to-a-ceasefire). That came about following hectic
US and Israel have since insisted that is a separate issue. Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has said that any peace negotiations would be “meaningless” if they took place as bombs continued to fall
Pakistan today if Iran agrees to further talks on ending the conflict. Tehran has given mixed signals about whether they will attend and, at time of writing, it remainds unclear. Meanwhile, time is ticking away
US State Department on Thursday, under the terms of the ceasefire agreement, Israel will “preserve its right to take all necessary measures in self-defence”, while not carrying out “any offensive military operations”. The statement
peace settlement between Iran and the US. The recent missteps ended with Iran saying it would [reinstate a complete block on the movement of commercial shipping through the strait of Hormuz](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/18/iran-closes-strait-of-hormuz-again-until-us-lifts-blockade)
Pakistan has already called on Beijing to play a larger mediation role in regional tensions, with officials telling [Al Jazeera](/news/2026/3/31/will-china-join-pakistan-led-efforts-to-mediate-us-iran-peace) that China is viewed as a credible actor capable of helping stabilise US-Iran
peaceful nuclear energy and disarmament. The JCPOA, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, was the 2015 agreement between Iran and six world powers that capped Tehran’s uranium enrichment and placed its facilities under international
role as its leaders hold high-level talks in Tehran and the Gulf. Amid a renewed push to end the war, a Pakistani delegation, led by army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir is in Tehran
Pakistan. In an overnight post on X on Tuesday, Ghalibaf wrote that Iran is “prepared to reveal new cards on the battlefield” after Trump threatened Tehran with “problems like they’ve never seen before
peace talks and came after a senior Iranian official said that Trump's [ceasefire extension "means nothing."](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/22/nx-s1-5795405/iran-middle-east-updates) Meanwhile in Lebanon, Israeli airstrikes killed at least five people, including Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil
peace talks in Islamabad, April 11, 2026. [Handout/Office of the Iranian Parliament Speaker via Reuters] Humayun cautioned against viewing the first round as a failure. “I wouldn’t characterise the first round as having failed
role of the **United States** in facilitating” it, Guterres spokesperson **Stephane Dujarric** said in a statement, adding he hoped the temporary halt to fighting would “pave the way for negotiations”. The ceasefire took effect
Pakistan, which stepped up its efforts to persuade the two parties to show flexibility and maintain back-channel communications in order to narrow the gaps in their positions. The Islamabad talks revealed how far apart