Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi was in Tehran on 6-7 June carrying written messages from both Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not appeared publicly since 28 February1. Naqvi met Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on the morning of 7 June and coordinated with Qatar, Turkey and Egypt as a collective channel2. IRNA and ABC News have now confirmed the visit that an earlier briefing flagged as unverified.
The institutional shape gives this track its weight. Pakistan carries both civilian and military buy-in, the prime minister's message and the army chief's running together, which is the one configuration Iran's divided command cannot wave away as a partial offer. Tehran's wartime authority splits between the IRGC, which controls the kinetic posture, and a foreign ministry whose public statements the corps has repeatedly reversed. A channel signed by Munir as well as Sharif speaks to both halves at once.
The timing exposed the track to immediate stress. Naqvi's shuttle and the US-Iran missile exchange ran across the same 72 hours, days after Trump publicly placed a deal in its "final throes". The only mediation channel with full Pakistani buy-in was therefore stress-tested by live ordnance within hours of opening, before any reply from Khamenei had surfaced. Whether the silence reflects a courier lag or a deliberate hold is the open question Islamabad cannot yet answer.
