Diya Hadid

Pakistani media and Iranian-backed IRNA reported that Field Marshal Asim Munir is scheduled to meet with high-ranking officials.

It comes after the Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsen Naqvi made his second visit to Iran in one week.

Pakistan earlier hosted both sides for marathon talks on April 11 and 12, but the U.S.

team, led by Vice President J.D.

Vance, said they had failed.

The Trump administration wants Iran to store its enriched uranium abroad and pause its nuclear program.

Iran is demanding a permanent ceasefire that lifts US sanctions and gives it more control of the Strait of Hormuz.

Diya Hadid, NPR News, New Delhi.

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Tahir Andrabi, says the 22 crew members will be handed over to Iranian authorities.

He says their container will be backloaded to Pakistani waters and returned to its owners.

Andrabi says this is being coordinated, quote, in tandem with the support of American and Iranian officials.

The U.S.

and Iran have both been trying to assert control over the strait, a key shipping route for oil, gas and fertilizer.

Dee Hadid, NPR News.

I don't like where this is headed.

Iran reversed its decision and reshut the strait a few hours after it was opened, after President Trump said the US blockade on Iranian ports would stay in place.

But during the brief opening on Saturday, the Indian Foreign Ministry said there was, quote, a brief incident of firing on merchant ships.

On Saturday, the UK's Maritime Trade Operations Centre said it received a report that two Iranian Revolutionary Guard gunboats fired on a tanker.

It didn't say if the tanker was Indian flagged.

More than 20,000 seafarers have been stuck on hundreds of ships in the Gulf since the Mideast War began in late February.