India, April 12 -- United States Vice President JD Vance on Sunday said he was in constant touch with President Donald Trump as he and his team were engaged in peace talks with Iranian leaders in Pakistan. The talks hit a wall for now.

"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," Vance told reporters as he left for the US after saying the talks had collapsed.

He added that, along with Trump, he was also in constant consultations with US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Admiral Brad Cooper, the chief of the US military's Central Command.

"We were constantly in c...