- COAS, MBS interact in complete dialogue on mutual points.
- Military chief lauds Prince Salman’s “steadfast help” for Pakistan.
- Gen Munir additionally meets kingdom’s Defence Minister Prince Khalid.
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Military Workers (COAS) Basic Asim Munir on Wednesday met Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman and mentioned bilateral points, together with defence and safety cooperation, the navy’s media wing stated in a press release.
In line with the Inter-Companies Public Relations (ISPR), the Saudi crown prince prolonged a heat welcome to the military chief — who’s presently on an official go to to Saudi Arabia — upon his arrival on the Royal Palace.
Each dignitaries engaged in a “complete dialogue on a spread of problems with mutual curiosity, together with regional peace, defence and safety cooperation, and methods for enhancing bilateral relations.”
Throughout the assembly, COAS Munir expressed his gratitude to the Saudi crown prince for his “steadfast help” for Pakistan and acknowledged his important position in fostering peace and stability throughout the area.
Individually, he additionally met Prince Khalid Bin Salman, Defence Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They vowed to additional strengthen cooperation within the area of defence and safety.
Conferences have been additionally held with Engineer Talal Abdullah Al-Otaibi, Assistant Minister of Defence; Air Chief Marshal Fayyadh Bin Hamed Bin Raqeeb’ Al Ruwaili, Chief of Basic Workers of Royal Saudi Armed Forces and Lieutenant Basic Fahad bin Saud Al-Johani, Chief of Royal Saudi Land Forces.
The assembly got here days after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif visited the dominion, the place he attended the eighth session of the Future Funding Initiative (FII).
The premier additionally met Mohammed bin Salman as each leaders took inventory of the continued bilateral engagements, particularly in follow-up to the choices taken in earlier high-level conferences held in Makkah and Riyadh in April.
Throughout PM’s go to, the dominion introduced including one other $600 million to its just lately pledged $2.2 billion funding in Pakistan.
Final month, Islamabad and Riyadh inked a number of memorandums of understanding (MoUs), value over $2 billion, to spice up bilateral commerce and funding through the Islamabad go to of a Saudi delegation, headed by Minister for Funding Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al-Falih.