Bilal Mazhar Khawaja, 44, runs three restaurants in Islamabad. For the past few days his business has been severely hit, with food supply chains disrupted and movement of staff restricted as the Pakistani capital remains in an indefinite lockdown in anticipation of the stalled US-Iran talks.
Pakistan has mediated the first round of peace talks to end the seven-week-old war between US and Iran. It appeared confident to get both sides talking again as US president Donald Trump indefinitely extended the ceasefire withTehran this week, hours before it was set to expire, to allow the two countries to continue the the peace negotiations.
