ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Tuesday it had made “significant progress” in talks with Iran aimed at reviving an Islamabad-brokered agreement with the United States, as Washington kept open the possibility of further military strikes and tensions persisted around the Strait of Hormuz.
Pakistan’s army chief Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir and Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi held a series of meetings with Iran’s leadership in Tehran a day earlier as Islamabad seeks to break a stalemate between Washington and Tehran and restore the interim peace agreement it helped the two sides reach in June.
“Significant progress was made, and the meeting concluded on a highly positive note,” Naqvi said in a post on X after he and Munir met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.
“We remain hopeful that this momentum will help pave the way for further progress and lasting peace in the region.”
Naqvi said discussions with Pezeshkian focused on the Iran-US conflict, wider Middle East tensions and steps required from both sides to restore the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with the aim of reaching a comprehensive settlement.
