Pak PM Sharif, Army Chief Muni

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his army chief Asim Munir left for Switzerland early on Sunday to attend technical level talks between the US and Iran.

According to the Prime Minister’s Office, the signing of the Islamabad MoU will be followed by technical level talks in Bergenstock, Switzerland on Sunday.

In a statement issued after midnight, the PMO said, “The Prime Minister has left for Switzerland from Islamabad along with a high-level delegation.”

It said that Prime Minister Sharif and Field Marshal Munir would participate in the talks.

Earlier, after being postponed on Friday, Pakistan had announced that the talks would be held in Switzerland.

The talks are aimed at adding key details to a preliminary agreement signed by US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian earlier this week to stop the nearly four-month-long war between the US and Iran.

US Vice President JD Vance was initially scheduled to hold the first round of talks with senior Iranian officials on Friday at a mountain resort in the small Swiss village of Aubourg, but his Iranian counterparts canceled their plans to attend due to escalating fighting between Israel and Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.

But US and Qatari negotiators, with Iran’s help, worked out an agreement between Israel and Hezbollah to reduce active hostilities, according to US and regional officials who were not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Iran’s state media announced later Saturday that its top officials would travel to Switzerland.

Vance left for Switzerland on Saturday evening, just as Iranian state TV posted a video showing Iran’s negotiators arriving there.

They are led by Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and include Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and central bank and oil officials, among others.