ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday dismissed reports about potential Iran-United States talks in Islamabad missing a “breakthrough,” urging media platforms to exercise “due diligence.”
Pakistan has served as a go-between for messages passed between Iranian and US officials since the beginning of the US-Israeli war on Iran, which has disrupted global energy and cargo supplies and threatened regional economies.
Late week, Islamabad hosted foreign ministers of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Egypt for discussions on ways to bring a permanent end to the ongoing war on Iran and Tehran’s counterattacks against US interests and other infrastructure in the Gulf.
Citing sources, a section of Pakistani media this week reported that Pakistan’s diplomatic effort appeared to have narrowly missed a “breakthrough” twice after Tehran requested more time for consultations and ultimately decided against participating.
“We categorically reject these false insinuations attributed to purported official sources as baseless and a figment of imagination. Any attribution to official sources in this regard is incorrect,” the Pakistani foreign office said on Saturday.
