ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan hoped that the US and Iran would engage constructively in the “Islamabad Talks” to achieve a peaceful resolution to end the Middle East conflict.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar expressed it after the high-powered US and Iranian delegation arrived in Islamabad for peace talks.
DPM Dar also reiterated Pakistan's desire to continue facilitating the parties towards reaching lasting and durable solution to the conflict.
Earlier in the day, US delegation led by US Vice President JD Vance along with Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Islamabad to participate in Islamabad Talks.
The US delegation was received by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar, Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Minister for Interior Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi upon arrival.
Welcoming the US Vice President, the DPM commended US commitment to achieving lasting regional and global peace and stability.
Earlier, the Iranian delegation led by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqher Ghalibaf has arrived in Islamabad in the wee hours of Saturday for peace talks with the United States.
The delegation includes senior political, military and economic officials, including the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, defense council secretary, central bank governor and several members of parliament.
Iran’s FM Araghchi documented the Iranian delegation's trip to Islamabad. He notably posted photos of himself and the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Ghalibaf, in front of portraits and the bloodstained belongings of four children believed to have been killed in the US airstrike on the Minab school on February 28, the first day of the war.
"Children from Minab are accompanying the delegation on its trip to Islamabad," he wrote.
The bombing of the Shajarah Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab, southern Iran, killed more than 150 people.
The New York Times revealed on March 11 that the US military was responsible for the missile strike after an error in the target's coordinates.