Washington: Two important visits from Pakistan to the United States, one of the Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ishaq Dar and the other by a commercial delegation, have postponed due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, official sources said. Sunrise.
He was scheduled to travel to New York next week to attend a United Nations Conference on the Palestinian State. But on Friday, France and Saudi Arabia, copatrocinadores of the event, asked the UN to postpone the meeting.
The application followed Israeli air attacks on Iran. Speaking in Paris, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, said that the conference, which aimed to advance a solution of two states for Israel and Palestine, had been delayed but still took place.
“While we have to postpone this conference for logistics and security reasons, it will take place as soon as possible,” said President Macron.
The changing situation in the Middle East has also delayed another planned visit, that of a commercial delegation of Islamabad, which was to keep conversations in Washington in rates.
At an informative news conference last week, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, had announced that the delegation would arrive “next week” for commercial conversations. Those plans are now waiting.
“But it will happen soon. We are working at the time,” a source told Sunrise.
Posted in Dawn, June 15, 2025
