Expresses hope that the agreement will contribute to lasting peace and stability in the region
In the picture on the left Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, on the right Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani PHOTO: MOFA/ BAHRAIN FO
Bahrain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, said on Sunday that he will visit Pakistan in the near future to personally thank the country’s leadership for its role in facilitating the “Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)” and the ceasefire, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (FO) said.
According to FO, Al Zayani conveyed the message during a telephone conversation with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Ishaq Dar.
Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar @MIshaqDar50 today held a telephone conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain, HE Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani.
The two leaders discussed the latest developments in the regional situation… pic.twitter.com/f54nQELkIp
— Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Pakistan (@ForeignOfficePk) June 28, 2026
The Bahraini Foreign Minister congratulated Dar on the signing of the Islamabad MoU and praised Pakistan’s role in promoting understanding.
He “appreciated Pakistan’s constructive role in facilitating understanding” and expressed hope that the agreement “would contribute to lasting peace and stability in the region,” the State Department said.
Al Zayani also said he would visit Pakistan “in the near future to personally thank the Prime Minister, the DPM/FM and the CDF for their great efforts to achieve the ceasefire”.
The two foreign ministers also discussed the developments in the regional situation after the signing of the Islamabad MoU. Dar thanked his Bahraini counterpart “for his kind sentiments” and reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to diplomacy.
He reiterated Pakistan’s willingness “to promote dialogue and diplomacy to achieve peace and stability in the region and beyond,” according to the State Department.
The call comes a week after the first round of quadrilateral talks involving Iran and the United States, with mediation by Qatar and Pakistan, concluded in Switzerland, marking the first formal follow-up commitment since the signing of the deal earlier this week.
On June 18, Prime Minister Shehbaz signed the ‘Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding’ as a mediator, formalizing the major diplomatic breakthrough between the US and Iran. Israel, which has been left out of the peace talks, has distanced itself from the US-Iran deal and continued to fight Hezbollah in Lebanon, also raising questions about whether the deal would last.
The US and Israel launched the war against Iran on February 28, assassinating Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and military leaders on the first day. It quickly developed into a regional conflict that has killed more than 7,000 people, mostly in Iran and Lebanon; drove up energy prices; renewed inflationary pressures and sparked concerns about a major food supply crisis in developing countries.
