{"id":24288,"date":"2026-10-19T17:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T17:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/19\/pakistan-qatar-iran-us-tensions-regional-security\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T17:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T17:16:15","slug":"pakistan-qatar-iran-us-tensions-regional-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/19\/pakistan-qatar-iran-us-tensions-regional-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan and Qatar Work to Prevent Escalation of Iran-US Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said at the Global Security Forum in Doha that Pakistan had used all its resources to bring Iran and the United States to the negotiating table. Referring to his visit to Tehran and meetings with senior Iranian officials, he stressed that despite rising tensions, Islamabad had not given up.<\/p>\n<p>Naqvi also praised Qatar&#8217;s close cooperation with Pakistan to help prevent an escalation in the conflict, saying the two countries played an active role during peace talks in Switzerland. According to him, Qatar&#8217;s prime minister and Pakistan&#8217;s army chief worked without interruption for more than 16 hours to advance the discussions.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani interior minister also referred to a joint defence pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, describing it as a sign of Islamabad&#8217;s commitment to maintaining regional security. He added that the agreement was purely a defence pact and was not intended to participate in war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan says it worked with Qatar to prevent further escalation between Iran and the US, while backing regional security through a defence pact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}