After US-Iran talks in Islamabad, PM Shehbaz says ‘full efforts’ ongoing to resolve conflict

Following talks between the United States and Iran in Islamabad over the weekend, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday said that “full efforts” were ongoing to resolve the conflict.

“Today, the ceasefire still stands. As I am talking to you, matters that are not resolved, full efforts are underway to resolve them,” he said in a televised address to the federal cabinet.

In his remarks, the premier hailed talks between the two countries in Islamabad as a “historic moment”.

He said the Islamabad Talks gave Pakistan a chance to “turn looming clouds of war into lasting peace”.

PM Shehbaz added that “if you look through history — take the Oslo Agreement, the Geneva Accord, the Good Friday Agreement … it took months and sometimes years to end hostilities and establish peace”.

Coming to the Islamabad Talks, he said that the Iranian and American delegations had negotiated “continuously for 21 hours”.

The dialogue, he said, was not held indirectly. “It was the first time that the two delegations sat face-to-face. I am a witness to it.”

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