The visit marks the first time in a decade that a senior US delegation has travelled to Pakistan, reviving a long-standing pattern in which Islamabad has acted as a conduit for American diplomacy duri

Pakistan is entangled in a conflict with Afghanistan. China is the U.S.'s chief global rival. The two nations emerged as unlikely but effective mediators.

Afghanistan and Pakistan said that they won’t “take actions that would escalate or complicate the situation” while China mediates over the deadly cross-border conflict.

A nation with a stalled economy, a terrorism problem and two hostile neighbors is set to host the first formal U.S.-Iranian talks since the war began.

The streets of Islamabad have been emptied by a sudden two-day public holiday, declared to enforce a strict security lockdown in the Pakistani capital.

Hannah Ellis-Petersen on Pakistan's role in brokering an 11th-hour deal between Iran and the US

While Pakistan conveyed its "strongest ever anger" to Iran over the strike on Saudi Arabia, with whom ​Islamabad has a mutual defence pact that could drag it into the war, it simultaneously sought assurances from Washington that it would rein in Israeli strikes on Iran.

The fragile truce hangs in the balance, as Netanyahu says Israel wants direct talks with Lebanon and oil shipping remains stalled in the Strait of Hormuz. Follow for live news updates.