Pakistan PM, army chief head to Switzerland for US-Iran talks
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The Pakistani Foreign Ministry said Sunday morning that the country’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the Army’s Chief of Staff Asim Munir will leave for Switzerland to participate in the talks between Iran and the United States.
Pakistan has played a big part in mediating the conflict between Tehran and Washington, successfully brokering a ceasefire for the first time in early April since the war broke out in February.
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A new round of negotiations over the Middle East war was set to kick off Sunday, with Iranian negotiators arriving in the Swiss host city hours ahead of US Vice President JD Vance.
Follow-up talks had been originally planned in Switzerland on Friday but were postponed at the last minute after ‘Israel’ launched deadly strikes in Lebanon following the deaths of four of its soldiers in combat.
