President Donald Trump meets with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir of Pakistan, Thursday, September 25, 2025, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)
Prime Minister of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, has urgently appealed to President Donald Trump to delay his looming military deadline on Iran by two weeks.
The plea comes as Trump’s Tuesday 8:00 p.m. ET deadline looms large, the moment when the United States will rain hell on Iran’s power plants, bridges, oil facilities, and critical infrastructure if the mullahs don’t immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end their extortion of the global oil supply.
Sharif, who has positioned himself as a would-be mediator in the crisis, issued the groveling request just hours ago.
He urged Trump to extend the deadline by two full weeks “to allow diplomacy to run its course” while simultaneously calling on Iran to reopen the strait for the same period as a supposed “goodwill gesture.”
Sharif wrote on X:
“Diplomatic efforts for 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 near future. To allow diplomacy to run its course, I earnestly request President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks.
“Pakistan, in all sincerity, requests the Iranian brothers to open Strait of Hormuz for a corresponding period of two weeks as a goodwill gesture. We also urge all warring parties to observe a ceasefire everywhere for two weeks to allow diplomacy to achieve conclusive termination of war, in the interest of long-term peace and stability in the region.”
Diplomatic efforts for 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 near future. To allow diplomacy to run its course, I earnestly request President Trump to extend…
— Shehbaz Sharif (@CMShehbaz) April 7, 2026
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News that President Trump has been briefed on the proposal and that a response is forthcoming.
President Trump told Fox News that he is engaged in “heated negotiations” with the Islamic regime.
According to Jacqui Heinrich:
Just had a short call with POTUS: He declined to say how he is feeling about negotiations: “I can’t tell you, because right now we’re in heated negotiations.”
He declined to weigh in on Pakistan’s 2 week deadline extension request – saying he’s about to be briefed fully on it – but said: “I can say this – that I know him very well. He’s a highly respected man, all over”
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says, “The President has been made been aware of the proposal, and a response will come.”
Just had a short call with POTUS:
He declined to say how he is feeling about negotiations: “I can’t tell you, because right now we’re in heated negotiations.”
He declined to weigh in on Pakistan’s 2 week deadline extension request – saying he’s about to be briefed fully on it -…
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) April 7, 2026
WATCH:
BREAKING: Just HOURS before his 8pm deadline for Iran, President Trump says he is in “HEATED NEGOTIATIONS” with the Islamic Republic
It’s coming down to the wire here…
Pray for peace pic.twitter.com/3uU4QLr6JO
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 7, 2026
This is the same Pakistan that previously condemned U.S. strikes on Iran while quietly recommending Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize over his handling of an earlier India-Pakistan standoff.
Now, with Trump’s boot on the throat of the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, Sharif is singing a very different tune, one of pure panic.
Just yesterday, The Gateway Pundit reported how Trump flat-out refused to extend the Iran deadline again after already giving the mullahs a gracious 10-day reprieve at their own begging. Iran responded by playing games, choking off global oil supplies while pretending to negotiate in bad faith.
TGP also reported Trump’s chilling Truth Social warning to the Iranian regime: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”
TGP also reported on Iran rejecting the very Pakistan-brokered ceasefire Sharif is now desperately trying to revive, a deal the mullahs tossed aside while demanding everything from U.S. withdrawal from the Persian Gulf to reparations for Trump’s targeted strikes.
According to Reuters, Iranian officials outlined a 10-point counterproposal that reportedly includes:
A full and permanent end to all “hostilities” (read: no more accountability for attacking U.S. interests or choking global oil supplies)
Immediate lifting of all crippling U.S. economic sanctions
Establishment of a new “security framework” in the region that would neuter America’s allies and legitimize Iran’s terror proxies
Ironclad guarantees for “safe passage” through the Strait of Hormuz — under Iranian terms, of course
Massive Western-funded reconstruction commitments to repair the damage from their own provocations
No restrictions whatsoever on Iran’s nuclear weapons program
An end to any curbs on its ballistic missile development
U.S. withdrawal of forces from key areas of the Persian Gulf
Reparations payments for “damages” caused by Trump’s targeted strikes
Formal recognition of Iran’s “legitimate” influence across the Middle East (including its Hezbollah, Houthis, and Hamas terror networks)
Trump has made it crystal clear: America is done playing games with radical Islamic terrorists who threaten global energy supplies and American interests.
While weak globalist leaders and the failed Biden regime would have caved, groveled, and sent pallets of cash to Tehran, President Trump is delivering real leverage and real consequences.
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