Pakistan’s Interior Minister Travels to Tehran with Special Message for Iran’s Leader
A Pakistani source told Al Jazeera that Mohsin Naqvi, Pakistan’s Interior Minister, is traveling to Tehran today carrying a message from Islamabad to Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s leader.
According to the Mehr news agency report, this trip is part of ongoing diplomatic movements between Pakistan, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the United States. Earlier, sources had also announced Naqvi’s planned visit to Tehran.
These sources stated that during this trip, mechanisms for reaching a memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran will be discussed. No further details about the content of this message or the specific topics of the talks have been released.
Naqvi, on his two previous visits to Tehran, had met with Masoud Pezeshkian, the Speaker of the Parliament; Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly; Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, the Foreign Minister; and Eskandar Moameni, his Iranian counterpart.
The current round of consultations began after Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan’s Prime Minister, proposed a two-week temporary ceasefire between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States early Wednesday, April 8, 2026. Subsequently, Islamabad took on the role of mediator.
Continuing these efforts, the Iranian negotiation delegation, led by Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, arrived in Islamabad on the evening of Friday, April 10, 2026, on flight “Minab 168” to hold talks with the American side.
