Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, who has been in Tehran since Wednesday facilitating communication between Iran and the United States to reach a framework for ending the war and resolving disputes under the coordination of senior Pakistani officials, met with Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi again on Friday.

According to Iranian media reports, during the meeting between the two ministers different draft agreements regarding ending the US-Iran war were also deliberated upon. This follows a message by Pakistani Foreign Minister Senator Muhammad Ishaq Dar on Thursday evening, in which he stated: "We are doing our best as a mediator to bring Washington and Tehran together to reach a peace agreement."

According to an Al Jazeera news network report, the Pakistani Foreign Minister emphasized that Islamabad will continue to play its role in this regard. Pakistan hosted the first round of negotiations between Washington and Tehran on April 12 (Farvardin 23); however, those talks did not culminate in an agreement to end the war. These negotiations took place following a two-week ceasefire mediated by Pakistan, which was subsequently extended.

Since then, the two sides have exchanged counterproposals and mechanisms to find common ground for resuming negotiations aimed at terminating the war. Meanwhile, the transfer or retention of nuclear materials in Iran, alongside the management and control of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran, remain among the most critical issues over which the two sides reportedly still hold differences.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)