{"id":519055,"date":"2026-04-08T06:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519055\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:53:07","slug":"how-pakistan-helped-secure-a-fragile-ceasefire-between-the-us-and-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519055\/","title":{"rendered":"How Pakistan helped secure a fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After midnight in Pakistan, the country&#8217;s Prime Minister posted on X that &#8220;diplomatic efforts\u2026 are progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully with the potential to lead to substantive results in near future&#8221; and asked President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks and for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz for the same period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iran&#8217;s ambassador to Pakistan, Reza Amiri Moghadam, posted on X around 03:00 local time (midnight BST) that there had been &#8220;a step forward from critical, sensitive stage&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Just before 05:00, Pakistan&#8217;s Prime Minister announced that a ceasefire had been agreed and invited the two sides to meet in Islamabad on Friday, 10 April to &#8220;further negotiate for a conclusive agreement&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are still being very circumspect,&#8221; the Pakistan source told the BBC, saying that there was a &#8220;continued fragility&#8221; to the situation. There is still no trust between the two sides, with strongly entrenched positions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While Pakistan may yet host both at a table the question is what can they find to agree on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After midnight in Pakistan, the country&#8217;s Prime Minister posted on X that &#8220;diplomatic efforts\u2026 are progressing steadily, strongly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-519055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}