Shehbaz Sharif

Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif used much of his address to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Friday to criticize Pakistan’s regional rival India, while touting his own government’s efforts at diplomacy, including mediation of the conflict between the United States and Iran.

Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni made a trip to Pakistan on Tuesday with a “high-level delegation” to meet with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his defense chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) and Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to mount an intensive search and rescue operation for a Boeing 737-400 cargo plane that disappeared over the Arabian Sea on Tuesday night.

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that a U.S.-Iran agreement aimed at ending more than three months of hostilities is “now complete,” authorizing the immediate removal of the U.S. naval blockade on Iran and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz following months of negotiations mediated by Pakistan, Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declared Friday that a proposed agreement with the United States to extend the ceasefire and advance negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program “has never been closer.” Meanwhile, Pakistan’s prime minister said mediators have reached a final agreed-upon text and are working to finalize the next steps toward a deal.

Iranian state media on Friday printed a variety of claims about the draft ceasefire agreement between Iran and the United States, including some reports that Iran would make a verifiable commitment to refrain from developing nuclear weapons.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the conflict with Iran is “very close to over.” A high-ranking Pakistani delegation led by Field Marshal Asim Munir arrived in Tehran on the same day, bringing Washington’s latest ceasefire proposals.

Pakistan’s prime minister is pressing President Donald Trump to grant a last-minute two-week extension to his Iran deadline as the clock ticks toward an 8 p.m. cutoff that could trigger sweeping U.S. strikes, offering a potential diplomatic off-ramp in the final hours.

Pakistan imposed a three-day curfew on Monday morning following violent protests against the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, including an attack on U.S. consulates and the embassy in Islamabad.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won a two-thirds majority of parliamentary seats in Thursday’s election.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday in Turkmenistan to discuss the war in Ukraine. Their meeting was unexpectedly interrupted by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who demanded an audience with Putin to secure his support against India and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

India’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday supported the “sovereignty” of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan against cross-border attacks from Pakistani forces.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif delivered a long and frequently belligerent speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Friday, railing against India for what he described as unprovoked aggression in May, and claiming Pakistan humiliated the Indian military in response.

The conflict between India and Pakistan continued on Thursday, with each side accusing the other of using drones to attack military targets in a major escalation of hostilities.

Pakistani officials vowed to retaliate for India’s “Operation Sindoor” strikes against alleged terrorist camps on Tuesday night, while India insisted its actions were “measured, non-escalatory, proportionate, and responsible.”

India’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday ordered several states, including the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region and areas close to the Pakistani border, to conduct civilian defense drills amid rising tensions with Pakistan.

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday that the “perpetrators, backers, and planners” of last week’s brutal terrorist attack in Kashmir “must be brought to justice.”

India and Pakistan canceled visas for each others’ nationals on Thursday amid rising tensions over a brutal terrorist attack on Indian tourists in Kashmir.

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), the national carrier of Pakistan, is taking heavy criticism for an advertisement that shows a jetliner flying at the Eiffel Tower – imagery that many viewers found uncomfortably reminiscent of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center.

Pakistani officials say two police officers and four paramilitary troops have been killed in clashes with Imran Khan supporters.

More than 70 people were killed in attacks by separatist militants who wish to stop Pakistan’s cooperation with China.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was sworn in for another term on Monday, despite opposition protests.

Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) announced it will join with the Sunni Ittehad Council party (SIC) in a bid to form a government.

As the dust settled from Pakistan’s highly contentious elections, presumptive prime ministerial candidate Nawaz Sharif stepped aside in favor of his younger brother Shehbaz, the former PM who is now likely to receive another term – even though the populist party of his predecessor Imran Khan won the most seats.

Early results in Pakistan’s elections show former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party taking the lead.

Two bombings targeting a political party headquarters and a local government office killed at least 28 people in Balochistan, Pakistan, on Wednesday – the day before a massive nationwide election preceded by outsized political violence and what some have branded state persecution of opposition parties.

The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday suspended former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s conviction on corruption charges.

The Intercept on Wednesday published a report on a long-rumored Pakistani government document that supports former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s claim that the U.S. government wanted to force him out of office.

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was arrested on Saturday within minutes of a court sentencing him in absentia to three years in prison on corruption charges.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), an international organization heavily funded by the United States, on Friday reached an agreement with Pakistan to provide $3 billion in short-term financial aid. The Pakistani bond market perked up at news that a potential debt default crisis has been delayed, but not enough to suggest that investors see a bright future for Pakistan’s finances.

The government of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif appears to have found a temporary solution, at least, to the problem of his predecessor and rival Imran Khan: a directive requiring the media to screen out “hatemongers, rioters, their facilitators and perpetrators” has effectively blacked out news coverage of Khan and his political comeback campaign.

Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan on Friday denounced a “reign of terror” by the successor he wishes to unseat, Shehbaz Sharif, as police searched his home for dozens of terrorism suspects he was allegedly harboring.

Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has been clashing with the government of his successor, Shehbaz Sharif, as he tries to return to power while dodging about a hundred corruption investigations, said on Wednesday he expects to be arrested again.

Imran Khan, the former Pakistani prime minister who is running for another term despite dozens of corruption cases pending against him, called for nationwide protests on Saturday night.

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) ruled on Friday that former prime minister Imran Khan must be released on bail for two weeks. The grant of bail came a day after Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled that Khan’s violent arrest by a paramilitary police unit on the grounds of the IHC was illegal.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday morning, two days after he was arrested in a paramilitary operation at a court in Islamabad.