Overview
- Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi met Qatar’s Interior Minister Sheikh Khalifa in Doha to review and expand cooperation between their security institutions.
- Qatar’s Ministry of Interior issued an official statement confirming the meeting and saying both sides discussed stronger coordination in internal security and related fields.
- Reporting says Islamabad and Doha have drafted a joint de‑escalation formula that asks the US and Iran to return to the positions they held before the new hostilities began on July 9 as a first step toward negotiations.
- Those reports describing the mediation plan come from Pakistani and regional outlets and an unnamed official and have not been independently confirmed by the US or Iran.
- The talks reflect growing regional diplomacy to prevent wider spillover from recent US strikes on Iranian infrastructure and Iranian attacks on US bases and will likely focus next on formalizing communication channels and institutional cooperation.