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Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Pakistan PM asks Trump to extend Iran deadline by 2 weeks, calls for truce and for Tehran to open strait during that period
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Pakistan’s prime minister asks US President Donald Trump to postpone his deadline for Iran by two weeks and implement a truce for that same period, also urging Tehran to allow maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz during that time.
“To allow diplomacy to run its course, I earnestly request President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks,” writes Shehbaz Sharif, whose government is serving as a mediator between Iran and the United States.
“Pakistan, in all sincerity, requests the Iranian brothers to open Strait of Hormuz for a corresponding period of two weeks as a goodwill gesture,” he writes on X.
“We also urge all warring parties to observe a ceasefire everywhere for two weeks to allow diplomacy to achieve conclusive termination of war, in the interest of long-term peace and stability in the region,” Sharif writes.
The Pakistani premier says that efforts to end the conflict are “progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully.”
In an expletive-laden post earlier this week, Trump warned that the US would attack power plants and bridges in Iran starting Tuesday evening if the Islamic Republic failed to reopen the key waterway. The US president’s deadline is set to expire at 8 p.m. EST.
The Times of Israel Community.