Overview
- Iran’s central bank governor Abdolnasser Hemmati met Pakistan’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister Ishaq Dar on the sidelines of the Islamabad Talks, with both sides stressing sustained dialogue and the link between peace and economic cooperation.
- Pakistan-based reporting says Hemmati is part of the Iranian team engaging a U.S. delegation led by Vice President JD Vance to try to lock in a Pakistan-brokered two‑week ceasefire.
- Trilateral talks have opened in Islamabad between the United States, Iran and Pakistan in what Al Jazeera called the highest-level contact between Washington and Tehran since the 1979 revolution.
- An Iranian delegation led by parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and foreign minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Islamabad and was received by senior Pakistani civilian and military leaders at Nur Khan Airbase.
- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called the negotiations a make or break moment, and Ishaq Dar said Pakistan would keep facilitating a lasting settlement.