ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - US President Donald Trump has been “made aware” of a proposal by Pakistan for a two-week ceasefire in the Iran war, a White House official told Rudaw, noting that a response to the proposition is on the horizon.
In an email sent to Rudaw, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated, “The President has been made aware of the proposal, and a response will come.”
The remarks came only hours before U.S. President Donald Trump’s ultimatum for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz by midnight GMT on Tuesday and agree to end the conflict.
He warned that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” if a deal is not achieved. “I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
However, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said in a late Tuesday post on X that “diplomatic efforts for a peaceful settlement of the ongoing war in the Middle East are progressing steadily, strongly, and powerfully, with the potential to lead to substantive results in the near future.”
He urged Trump to “allow diplomacy to run its course” and extend his deadline by two weeks, while also calling on “our Iranian brothers to open the Strait of Hormuz for a corresponding period of two weeks as a goodwill gesture.”
Sharif also called on “all warring parties to observe a ceasefire everywhere for two weeks to allow diplomacy to achieve the conclusive termination of the war, in the interest of long-term peace and stability in the region.