Pakistan asks Trump to extend Iran deadline as Pope condemns threat

Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif has urged President Donald Trump to widen his Tuesday nighttime deadline to Iran implicit the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

Sharif said diplomatic efforts for a peaceful colony of the warfare are progressing “steadily, strongly, and powerfully” with the imaginable to execute substantive results successful the adjacent future.

“I earnestly petition President Trump to widen the deadline for 2 weeks,” the PM wrote connected X, urging Iran to unfastened the Strait for 2 weeks arsenic a goodwill gesture.

Sharif urged the warring parties to observe a ceasefire wrong the aforesaid play to let diplomacy to execute a conclusive termination of the warfare for semipermanent bid and stability.

President Trump’s informing astir a “whole civilization” dying successful a imaginable United States subject enactment has accrued tensions successful the Middle East, with mediators, including Sharif, rushing against time.

Pope Leo XIV connected Tuesday powerfully condemned the ultimatum by the American leader, saying the menace against the colonisation of Iran was inappropriate.

“There was this menace against the full radical of Iran, and this is genuinely unacceptable,” helium said portion leaving the papal residence to the Vatican, successful Castel Gandolfo.

The Pope noted that galore person described the warfare arsenic unjust, adding that escalating the struggle would further summation the costs of vigor an...