US President Donald Trump said Washington has agreed to the ceasefire with Iran as a “favor” to Pakistan.Speaking to reporters on Air Force One while returning from China, Trump said the US has accepted the ceasefire at Pakistan’s request and currently has no plans to resume bombing Iran.Trump said, “We did the ceasefire as a request from another country. I really would have benefited from it, but we did it to do Pakistan a favor. They are wonderful people, the field marshal and the prime minister.”The comments come at a sensitive moment for Pakistan, which has tried to position itself as a regional mediator in the US-Iran crisis but faces questions over its neutrality after reports and satellite imagery suggested that Iranian military aircraft had landed at Pakistani airports during the height of the conflict.The reports fueled speculation that Pakistan may have quietly offered military asylum to Iranian assets, while publicly presenting itself as a neutral facilitator of the talks. This has fallen into a familiar pattern that critics often associate with Pakistan’s foreign policy, attempting to play multiple sides at once, only to have its credibility questioned when events on the ground indicate otherwise.The US–Israeli conflict with Iran began on February 28 and was reportedly halted on April 8 under a ceasefire backed by Pakistan. On April 11–12, US Vice President JD Vance led a delegation to Islamabad for direct talks with Iranian officials, an unusual diplomatic debut.Trump also reiterated that the US will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons and said Tehran is under pressure to surrender its stockpile of enriched uranium in exchange for sanctions relief.He further said that Chinese President Xi Jinping supported keeping the Strait of Hormuz open, underscoring how the crisis has affected all major regional and global powers.