US Vice President JD Vance met with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad Saturday ahead of high-stakes negotiations with Iran, according to pool reporters traveling with the vice president, CNN reports.
Sharif met earlier Saturday with the Iranian delegation, as Pakistan has emerged as a key mediator in efforts to end the war in Iran, now in its sixth week.
Vance was joined for the bilateral meeting by special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Sharif was joined by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sen. Mohammad Ishaq Dar, along with Interior Minister Sen. Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi, according to a news release from the Pakistani prime minister’s office. There was no press coverage of the meeting.
Sharif commended both sides’ commitment to engaging constructively, and “expressed the hope that these talks would serve as a stepping stone toward durable peace in the region,” his office wrote in the news release.
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