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Pakistan’s Interior Minister, Mohsin Naqvi, arrived in Tehran on Saturday for a two-day official visit aimed at supporting stalled peace negotiations between Iran and the United States, according to Iranian media reports.
Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni received Naqvi during the visit, which comes days after Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, also travelled to Tehran.
Iran’s Tasnim news agency said the visit forms part of Islamabad’s ongoing efforts to promote regional peace and facilitate dialogue between Tehran and Washington.
“Mohsin Naqvi arrived today in the Islamic Republic of Iran on an official two-day visit as part of Pakistan’s ongoing efforts to facilitate talks and promote regional peace,” the Tasnim news agency reported.
Pakistan has played an active mediation role in recent months and last month hosted talks involving delegations from both countries.
A ceasefire that took effect on April 8 has largely halted hostilities that began after US and Israeli forces launched attacks on Iran on February 28.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday that Tehran had received signals from Washington suggesting the administration of US President Donald Trump remained open to further negotiations.
Earlier on Tuesday, Iran’s parliament speaker and chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said the United States should accept Tehran’s proposed framework for peace or risk the collapse of the process.
His remarks came after Trump reportedly rejected an Iranian counterproposal and warned that the ceasefire remained fragile.
“There is no alternative but to accept the rights of the Iranian people as laid out in the 14-point proposal. Any other approach will be completely inconclusive; nothing but one failure after another,” Ghalibaf said.
