AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.After talks in Islamabad last weekend led to a two-week cease-fire, Pakistan is offering to host another round in an attempt to sustain continuing peace efforts.Listen · 3:36 min Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, center, and other Pakistani officials during peace talks between the United States and Iran in Islamabad, Pakistan, last week.Credit...Pool photo by Jacquelyn MartinApril 16, 2026Updated 3:53 p.m. ETPakistani diplomacy has risen to the forefront of efforts to broker peace between the United States and Iran, as the top leaders of Pakistan tried to preserve a shaky cease-fire between the combatants and to again offer their country as the venue for potential talks.Pakistan’s powerful army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, arrived in Tehran on Wednesday, becoming the first regional player to visit Iran since the United States and Israel began attacking it on Feb. 28. He carried with him the praise of the White House.“Pakistanis have been incredible mediators,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said after the army chief’s arrival in Iran. “The president feels it’s important to continue to streamline this communication through the Pakistanis.”Pakistan helped negotiate a two-week cease-fire last week, scoring a major diplomatic victory. That cease-fire is set to expire on April 21.Pakistan’s military said Field Marshal Munir was visiting Iran to sustain continuing peace efforts. On Thursday, Tahir Andrabi, a spokesman for Pakistan’s foreign ministry, said that a second round of talks between the United States and Iran was expected to take place in Islamabad, though he declined to provide a date. Neither U.S. nor Iranian officials have confirmed that, though both sides have said that indirect negotiations were continuing.ImageA handout photograph from the Iranian Foreign Ministry showing the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, welcoming Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, in Tehran on Wednesday.Credit...Iranian Foreign MinistryThank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT