President Donald Trump canceled a planned trip by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and senior adviser Jared Kushner to Islamabad on 25 April 2026, pulling the U.S. delegation from ceasefire negotiations with Iranian counterparts hours before they were to depart. Trump told Fox News he stopped his team as they were preparing to leave. "I've told my people a little while ago, they were getting ready to leave, and I said, 'Nope, you're not making an 18-hour flight to go there,'" he said.
The cancellation halted the third round of Pakistan-mediated talks between Washington and Tehran. The two sides had been working through Pakistani intermediaries since a fragile ceasefire took effect on 8 April 2026, following a U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran that began in February. The Islamabad framework had produced limited but tangible progress in earlier rounds; Trump's abrupt reversal ended that momentum.
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