BEIRUT: Lebanese Armed Forces Commander will visit Pakistan to hold talks with Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, Lebanese media reported on Friday.
Lebanon’s LBCI TV channel citing sources said that the army commander, General Rodolph Haykal, is set to travel to Pakistan in the coming hours, where he will hold talks with his Pakistani counterpart.
#Lebanonnews: Sources told LBCI that the army commander, General Rodolph Haykal, is set to travel to Pakistan in the coming hours, where he will hold talks with his Pakistani counterpart.https://t.co/qqy3FcajXY
— LBCI Lebanon English (@LBCI_News_EN) June 5, 2026
Meanwhile, Bureau Chief of Asharq News in Washington, posted on X that the LAF Commander is heading to Pakistan to meet Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir in the next hours.
‼️ Interesting: LAF Commander is heading to Pakistan to meet Asim Munir in the next hours .
— Hiba Nasr (@HibaNasr) June 5, 2026
The visit is taking place against the backdrop of ongoing high-level diplomatic and security discussions between Israel and Lebanon, amid efforts to address regional tensions and maintain ceasefire along the border.
Earlier, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun urged Iran not to interfere in his country in a video interview published on Friday by CNN, also telling Hezbollah that diplomacy was the only solution to the conflict with Israel.
“It’s not your country, it’s our country… It’s not your job to interfere in our country,” Aoun told Iran in the interview, adding that “they are using Lebanon as a bargaining chip in their negotiation with the United States. It’s unacceptable.”
“Hezbollah must understand that (there is) no other way but to sit and talk, no other way to solve this problem and to save what’s left except through negotiation and diplomacy,” he added.
Lebanon’s parliament speaker Nabih Berri also said he would agree to the withdrawal of Hezbollah from southern Lebanon if Israeli troops simultaneously left the territory they occupy in the country.
He added that he “agrees to… Hezbollah’s withdrawal from south of the Litani River, in parallel with the Israeli withdrawal from the areas it occupied.”
Lebanon says Israeli attacks have killed more than 3,500 people since Hezbollah drew Lebanon into the wider Middle East war on March 2, firing rockets at Israel in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader.
