Summary ‘I think Pakistan is terrific, field marshal is fantastic. I think prime minister of Pakistan’s great’
(Web Desk) - US President Donald Trump has praised Pakistan’s leadership amid the peace process with Iran, while also stating that he is not sending envoys Steve Wikoff and Jared Kushner to the country because it would be ‘too much travel’.
“I think Pakistan is terrific and the field marshal is fantastic. I think the prime minister of Pakistan’s great, and they’d like to see something happen,” Trump told reporters.
“But we’re not going to be travelling 15, 16 hours to have a meeting with people that nobody ever heard of.”
Asked about what changed that prompted Trump to cancel a visit to Pakistan by his envoys, he said, “Too much travel.
“When they say the meeting’s scheduled for Tuesday, I say ‘Tuesday? That’s a long time from now.’ But when you get down to it, that’s a lot of travelling,” he added.
President Donald Trump said he has told US envoys not to go to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, shortly after Iran’s top diplomat left Islamabad late Saturday.
.@POTUS: "You probably heard that we canceled the trip. We have all the cards. We’re not going to spend 15hrs in airplanes all the time, going back and forth, to be given a document that was not good enough. So, we’ll deal by telephone, and they can call us any time they want." pic.twitter.com/wZ3Twz4XpY
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 25, 2026
Trump added to Fox News: “They can call us anytime they want.” The White House on Friday said Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner would be going to Pakistan’s capital to attempt to revive ceasefire negotiations.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi left Pakistan on Saturday evening, two Pakistani officials told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media.
Araghchi had met with Pakistani Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif about what he called Iran’s red lines for negotiations, and said Tehran would engage with Pakistan’s mediation efforts “until a result is achieved.” Iran had said talks would be indirect.
An open-ended ceasefire has paused most fighting, but the economic fallout grows with global shipments of oil, liquefied natural gas, fertilizer and other supplies disrupted by the near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranian officials have openly asked how they can trust the US after talks last year and early this year over Tehran’s nuclear program ended with it being attacked by the US and Israel.
