Overview
- EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Canadian foreign minister Anita Anand praised Pakistan’s facilitation in separate calls with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar.
- Both interlocutors urged continued diplomacy and said they would keep close contact with Islamabad on the conflict and related cooperation.
- Dar said Pakistan will keep supporting dialogue and pressed all parties to stick to a ceasefire.
- The outreach followed marathon US–Iran negotiations in Islamabad that ran about 20 to 21 hours and ended without an agreement.
- The talks aimed to slow a widening conflict that has killed thousands and driven up global oil prices in recent weeks.