{"id":106359,"date":"2026-03-23T12:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pm-shehbaz-speaks-to-irans-president-expresses-concern-over-hostilities-in-gulf\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:59:07","slug":"pm-shehbaz-speaks-to-irans-president-expresses-concern-over-hostilities-in-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pm-shehbaz-speaks-to-irans-president-expresses-concern-over-hostilities-in-gulf\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Shehbaz speaks to Iran's president, expresses concern over hostilities in Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif held a telephone conversation with Iranian President Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian, the Prime Minister\u2019s Office said in a statement on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Prime Minister extended Eid ul Fitr and Nowruz greetings to the Iranian president and the brotherly people of Iran. President Pezeshkian warmly reciprocated the gesture and conveyed his best wishes for the people of Pakistan.<\/p>\n

As a neighbouring brotherly country of Iran, PM Shehbaz conveyed Pakistan\u2019s solidarity with the brave Iranian people in the wake of the ongoing hostilities.<\/p>\n

He expressed deep condolences over the loss of precious lives and prayed for early recovery and safety of those injured and displaced.<\/p>\n

PM Shehbaz also conveyed his serious concern over the dangerous ongoing hostilities in the Gulf region.<\/p>\n

In view of this grave situation, Shehbaz Sharif underscored the urgent need to work collectively for de-escalation and a return to dialogue and diplomacy amongst all the neighbouring countries to settle their differences.<\/p>\n

He stressed upon the critical importance of unity in the ranks of the Ummah, that was required more than ever before.<\/p>\n

While sharing with the Iranian President the diplomatic outreach efforts of Pakistan\u2019s leadership, the prime minister assured the Iranian leadership that Pakistan would continue to play a constructive role in facilitating peace in the region.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump said Monday that he had ordered a halt to his threatened strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure after \u201cvery good and productive talks\u201d with Tehran, and that negotiations are set to continue this week.<\/p>\n

Hours before the expiration of his two-day ultimatum \u2014 in which he threatened to \u201cobliterate\u201d Iran\u2019s power infrastructure if it did not reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz \u2014 Trump suddenly reported with little detail that diplomacy was underway, after he earlier shunned talks.<\/p>\n

The United States and Iran \u201chave had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East,\u201d Trump wrote, in all capitals, early Monday on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif held a telephone conversation with Iranian President Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian, the Prime Minister\u2019s Office said in a statement on Monday. The Prime Minister extended Eid ul Fitr and Nowruz greetings to the Iranian president and the brotherly people of Iran. President Pezeshkian warmly reciprocated the gesture and conveyed his best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.arynews.tv\/zip-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pak-iran.gif?imageMogr2\/format\/jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}