Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrives in Zurich with his delegation. PHOTO: PMO
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Zurich on Sunday along with his delegation to participate in high-level talks on the implementation of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said.
According to the PMO, the Prime Minister and Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Defense Forces Field Marshal Asim Munir “will participate in the high-level talks on the implementation of the Islamabad MoU.”
Zurich: June 21, 2026.
The Prime Minister and the Field Marshal will participate in the High Level Talks on the implementation of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding to be held in Burgenstock, Switzerland on June 21, 2026.
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– Prime Minister’s Office (@PakPMO) June 21, 2026
The Prime Minister will also hold bilateral meetings with delegations from Iran, the United States, Qatar and Switzerland during his visit to Bürgenstock, where he will participate in high-level talks on the implementation of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (FO) said earlier on Sunday (today).
The talks were initially scheduled for Friday, but Switzerland’s Foreign Ministry said they were not taking place and gave no details.
According to the FO, the meetings will be held “to reaffirm Pakistan’s enduring commitment to dialogue and lasting peace in the region.”
The prime minister, accompanied by Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Defense Forces Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, traveled to Switzerland on Saturday night to attend the talks, which the FO described as “the first formal engagement after the signing of the Islamabad MoU on June 17, 2026”.
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Curtain rises: High-level talks on the implementation of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (Bürgenstock, Switzerland, June 21, 2026)
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The talks in Switzerland mark the first formal follow-up engagement since the agreement was signed earlier this week. High delegations from Iran, Qatar and the United States participate in the discussions.
The FO said: “Pakistan will continue to support and advance the implementation of the understandings reached between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States.”
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Highlighting Islamabad’s diplomatic role, the FO said Pakistan’s facilitation efforts reflected its “principled, balanced and constructive approach throughout the crisis,” including “hosting earlier rounds of US-Iran talks and sustained diplomatic contacts that culminated in the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding.”
On Thursday, Prime Minister Shehbaz signed the ‘Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding’ as a mediator, formalizing the important diplomatic breakthrough between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Israel, excluded from the peace talks, has distanced itself from the US-Iran deal and has continued to fight the militant group Hezbollah, an ally of Iran, in Lebanon, also raising questions about whether the deal will hold.
The United States and Israel launched war against Iran on February 28, assassinating Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, and military leaders on the first day. It quickly became a regional conflict that has killed more than 7,000 people, mainly in Iran and Lebanon; rising energy prices; They renewed inflationary pressures and raised concerns about a major food supply crisis in developing countries.
The 14-point agreement extends a ceasefire announced in April for another 60 days, including in Lebanon, to allow the two sides to negotiate a final truce. Both Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian digitally signed the memorandum in English and Farsi, U.S. and Iranian officials said, and Iran’s Foreign Ministry said the deal was already in effect as of Wednesday.
Trump signed just before a big dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles, the site of the signing of the treaty of the same name that formally ended World War I.
The United States and Iran released the text of the Islamabad MoU that their presidents signed on Wednesday to end their war. However, US President Donald Trump had threatened to resume attacks and kill Iranian officials if they did not fulfill their commitments.
Trump, who attended the G7 with other leaders in France, also walked back at least one of his arguments for attacking Iran in the first place, saying it would be “unfair” for Tehran not to have ballistic missiles, having previously promised to destroy them.
“We will bomb them if they violate the deal,” Trump said of Iran at a news conference. “I don’t want them to do it. I want them to respect the agreement.” He also called the Iranians “smart people” as U.S. and Iranian negotiators work on a permanent truce over the next 60 days, which Trump said he hoped would usher in peace in the Middle East and lower oil prices.
Iran’s leaders did not address the new threats as they celebrated the moment and released photographs of what is believed to be the first agreement signed by an American and Iranian president since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979.
