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Pakistan Talks in Doubt as USIran Ceasefire Frays Over Lebanon and Hormuz

Tehran conditions its attendance on a halt to Israeli strikes in Lebanon.

Overview

  • Islamabad talks, which Pakistan planned for Friday, remained unconfirmed after Iran’s Tasnim agency denied its team had arrived and tied any meeting to a Lebanon ceasefire.
  • The White House said discussions are slated for Saturday led by Vice President JD Vance with envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
  • President Trump warned Iran not to charge ship tolls in the Strait of Hormuz and said Tehran was blocking oil flows, with tracking data showing only a trickle of traffic and the first non‑Iranian tanker exiting Thursday.
  • Israeli strikes in Lebanon on Wednesday killed more than 300 people according to the Lebanese health ministry, and on Friday the army reported hitting Hezbollah launch sites after rockets triggered sirens as far as Tel Aviv.
  • A dispute over whether the truce covers Lebanon has become the main obstacle, with Pakistan saying the ceasefire applies there and the United States and Israel rejecting that scope while Iran insists it does.