Pakistan, April 8 -- Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar on Tuesday informed the Senate that Pakistan had made intensive diplomatic efforts to help defuse the prevailing crisis in the region and facilitate dialogue between Iran and United States of America (USA).

Speaking in the House on the current regional situation, he thanked Leader of the Opposition Senator Raja Nasir Abbas for acknowledging the government's efforts and said Pakistan had remained actively engaged from the very outset of the crisis.

He said that when the first attack on Iran took place, he was in Madina after attending an OIC meeting and immediately contacted the Foreign Office, directing it to issue a strong condemnation of the Israeli att...