{"id":62,"date":"2026-04-21T07:32:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=62"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:32:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:32:02","slug":"committed-to-advancing-peace-pakistan-pm-holds-talks-with-iran-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/04\/21\/committed-to-advancing-peace-pakistan-pm-holds-talks-with-iran-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Committed to Advancing Peace \u2013 Pakistan PM Holds Talks with Iran President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"85\" data-end=\"309\">Pakistan Prime Minister <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Shehbaz Sharif<\/span><\/span> held a telephone conversation yesterday with Iran\u2019s President <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Masoud Pezeshkian<\/span><\/span>, discussing key regional developments during a 45-minute call.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"311\" data-end=\"691\">According to a statement from the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, both leaders exchanged views in detail on the current regional situation. Sharif also expressed appreciation to Iran for sending a high-level delegation led by Speaker <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf<\/span><\/span> and Foreign Minister <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Abbas Araghchi<\/span><\/span> for recent talks held in Islamabad on the 11th and 12th.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"693\" data-end=\"890\">Pakistan is currently playing a mediating role in efforts to ease tensions between the United States and Iran. However, the first round of discussions between the two sides ended without agreement.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"892\" data-end=\"1183\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">A second round of talks is scheduled to take place today, though it remains unclear whether Iran will participate. Meanwhile, former U.S. President <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Donald Trump<\/span><\/span> has warned of severe consequences if no agreement is reached, further heightening tensions in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif held a telephone conversation yesterday with Iran\u2019s President Masoud Pezeshkian, discussing key regional developments during a 45-minute call. According to a statement from the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, both leaders exchanged views in detail on the current regional situation. Sharif also expressed appreciation to Iran for sending a high-level delegation led &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}