ISLAMABAD: Pakistan have called on media outlets to refrain from speculating about the schedule of the next round of United States–Iran negotiations, emphasising that no timeline has been finalized and that diplomatic efforts are still underway.
“If we had shared such information, it would have been a breach of trust,” Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Hussain Andrabi said.
Addressing a weekly briefing, the spokesperson declined to share details of diplomatic engagements, emphasising the need for trust and confidentiality.
When asked about the delegation for a second round of dialogue, he said, “Who will come, how large the delegation will be, who will stay, and who will leave — this is for the parties to decide.”
“The important thing is that both sides are willing to engage and dialogue continues,” he said, adding that details about delegations and participation were secondary and an internal matter of the concerned parties.
His remarks came amid reports that negotiating teams from the US and Iran could return to Pakistan later this week, five sources told Reuters, days after the highest-level inaugural talks between the two countries in decades ended inconclusively.
Earlier, US Vice President JD Vance concluded talks in Islamabad with a senior Iranian delegation led by Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.
The negotiations – the highest-level direct engagement between the two sides since the 1979 revolution – ended without a breakthrough, though Washington described its proposal as a “final and best offer”.
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