October 21, 2026

The statement said the agreement would help joint efforts to improve the defence industries of the four countries.

President Muizzu arrived in Islamabad on October 20, which is the first official trip by a Maldivian president to Pakistan in 11 years.

The international community has consistently supported the two-state solution, but the geographic circumstances that would make such a solution possible are increasingly under threat.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei said Iranian officials and the public agreed that negotiations should not take place until Washington took confidence-building measures, adding that the process must begin with the…