Updated April 25, 2026 — 3:11am, first published 5:30pm
Dubai/Washington: US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner will travel to Pakistan this weekend for talks with Iran, the White House has confirmed.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Witkoff and Kushner would leave for Islamabad on Saturday morning US time (Saturday night AEST). She said the Trump administration had seen “some progress” from the Iranian side in the last couple of days, without elaborating.
US envoys Jared Kushner (left) and Steve Witkoff at the first Islamabad meeting. AP “Steve and Jared will be heading to Pakistan tomorrow to hear the Iranians out. We hope progress will be made, and we hope that positive developments will come from this meeting,” Leavitt said on Friday afternoon Washington time.
She said Vice President JD Vance, who led a first round of unsuccessful talks with Iran in Islamabad earlier this month, is ready to travel to Pakistan to join talks if they prove successful.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was bound for Pakistan on Friday night, according to the Iranian government, raising hopes for revived negotiations in the war. It said Araghchi was on a regional tour including Oman and Russia.
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