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US President Donald Trump was not physically in Islamabad for the peace talks with Iran, but he was in constant touch with his team leading the negotiations, hoping to end the Middle East conflict.

The US delegation, led by Vice President (VP) JD Vance, talked to Trump a “dozen times” during multiple rounds of talks with Iran in Pakistan. The talks, however, remained inconclusive, reports NDTV online.

The peace talks mediated by Pakistan lasted 21 hours on Saturday but failed to produce any result, Vance said during a media briefing early yesterday.

When asked how often he communicated with the President throughout those rounds of negotiations, Vance said: “We were talking to the President consistently. I don’t know how many times we talked to him, a half dozen times, a dozen times over the past 21 hours.”