Delegations from the United States and Iran will arrive in Pakistan on Friday to hold peace talks.
This was announced by Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday, Reuters news agency reported.
US President Donald Trump also confirmed to the New York Post that peace talks in Pakistan will take place "very soon".
According to two unnamed sources, the US delegation will be led by US Vice President J.D. Vance, while the Iranian delegation will be led by Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, Reuters reports.
However, Trump told the New York Post that J.D. Vance may not attend due to security concerns.
The delegations will arrive on Thursday, according to Reuters sources.
Earlier, the prime minister announced on Wednesday night that Sharif had invited the two countries to Friday's peace talks.
Shehbaz Sharif wrote this in a post on the social media X.
- Delegations from both countries have been invited to Islamabad on Friday, April 10, 2026, for further negotiations on a final agreement that can resolve all differences, Sharif wrote.
The latest statement from the Pakistani prime minister suggests that the countries have accepted the invitation.
Pakistan is a neighbor of Iran and is on good terms with both Iran and the United States. It was also with Pakistan as a mediator that a two-week ceasefire was announced by the United States and Iran. Israel later said that it had joined it.
Pakistan shares a 900-kilometer border with Iran. The two countries have deep historical, cultural and religious ties. Pakistan is also home to the world's second-largest Shiite Muslim population after Iran.
- Pakistan has strong credentials as the only country in the region that has good relations with both the United States and Iran, Asif Durrani, a former Pakistani ambassador to Iran, told AFP.
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