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New Delhi: Pakistan said Friday (April 10) that it would issue visas on arrival for those traveling to Islamabad for the Iran-US talks, signaling the interest in the world’s media in the event.

US vice president J.D. Vance, who has long been skeptical of foreign military interventions and outspoken about the prospect of sending troops into open-ended conflicts, sets off Friday to lead mediated talks with Iran in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.

Meanwhile, a former Iranian foreign minister who once suggested Tehran could seek a nuclear weapon died late Thursday (April 9) after being wounded in an airstrike last week, Iranian state television reported.

Kamal Kharazi had served as a foreign minister for Iran’s reformist President Mohammad Khatami, then as a foreign affairs adviser to the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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