![\"Iranian](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777110852_954_f_webp.webp\")
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\n Iran\u2019s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi landed in Islamabad to the deep throaty roar of Pakistani fighter jets escorting his large civilian airliner to an air base just outside the capital.\n <\/p>\n
\n It was a few minutes past midnight when he was greeted by Pakistan\u2019s top mediators, the powerful Field Marshal Asim Munir, as well as Pakistan\u2019s foreign and interior ministers.\n <\/p>\n
\n What happened next was unusual by the expected norms of diplomacy.\n <\/p>\n
\n They plunged into an all-night talks that ended as the sun was coming up almost five hours later.\n <\/p>\n
\n US President Donald Trump said he is in \u201cno rush\u201d for a deal, but the optics of this meeting suggest otherwise.\n <\/p>\n
\n For several days this past week the public facing part of the peace efforts had been at a slow shuffle. What happened in the early hours of this morning hint at a renewed urgency.\n <\/p>\n
\n It\u2019s unclear yet why the delegations didn\u2019t meet at a more civilised hour, but the impression has been created they needed or wanted to conclude their opening face-to-face discussion before Trump and other US officials went down for the night.\n <\/p>\n
\n Pakistan is nine hours ahead of the time in Washington, DC, so as the sun came up here this morning it was only 8 p.m. ET in Mar-a-Lago.\n <\/p>\n
\n How the conversations here will impact decisions being made overnight by Trump is unclear.\n <\/p>\n
\n At the same time, the speed of Trump\u2019s top envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner\u2019s travel to Pakistan now appears to have been set back a beat.\n <\/p>\n
\n They are not expected in Pakistan until Sunday now. The timing of their eventual arrival, if it happens at all, will tell us more on whether a breakthrough is on the cards.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi landed in Islamabad to the deep throaty roar of Pakistani fighter jets escorting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-605379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}