The Pakistani Foreign Office (FO) urged the United States and Iran on Thursday to cease hostilities and return to technical-level negotiations, warning that a Pakistan-brokered interim peace arrangement was encountering significant difficulties.
During a routine weekly press briefing, FO spokesperson Tahir Andrabi stated that the implementation of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, signed by the US and Iran last month, was “facing challenges.”
He reaffirmed that Pakistan would keep pressing all parties to end the violence and resume technical talks in line with the MoU and the joint communiqué issued by mediators Pakistan and Qatar on June 20.
The comments arrived as both sides exchanged strikes on Thursday, with US forces hitting Iranian coastal defenses and missile installations, and Iran responding with attacks on American military facilities in nearby Gulf states.
Since fighting resumed on July 8, doubts have deepened over the Islamabad MoU of June 18, which sought to reopen the strait and halt the war through 60 additional days of talks.
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