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Pakistan's PM Shehbaz meets Erdogan and speaks at Antalya Diplomacy Forum[Updated]

Friday, 17 April 2026, 06:15 · 1 min read
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Following his appearances at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, Sharif held a 45-minute telephone call with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, during which he reaffirmed Pakistan's commitment to advancing regional peace and security. The call came after US President Donald Trump confirmed that American representatives were heading to Islamabad for a second round of talks with Iran, following the first round of direct US-Iran negotiations held on April 11–12, which ended without an agreement but without a breakdown. A Pakistan-brokered two-week ceasefire between Washington and Tehran, which has been in effect since US-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28, is set to expire on April 22. Sharif also thanked Pezeshkian for dispatching a high-powered Iranian delegation — led by Parliament Speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi — to participate in the Islamabad talks.

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Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Antalya and took part in the fifth Antalya Diplomacy Forum (an annual international dialogue event held in Turkey's southern resort city), where he joined a leaders' panel discussing global uncertainty. The visit is the third stop on a regional tour that has already taken him to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, where he held talks focused on Middle East peace efforts and US-Iran negotiations that Pakistan has helped broker. Sharif briefed Erdoğan on ongoing de-escalation efforts in the Middle East and is expected to meet other world leaders on the sidelines of the forum.

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DawnPM Shehbaz to meet President Erdogan, attend diplomacy forum on third leg of tour today ↗︎
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