ISLAMABAD: Iranian Overseas Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Monday arrived in Islamabad on two-day official go to to carry consultations with Pakistan’s management on the state of affairs within the Center East and bilateral relations.
Throughout his go to, the Iranian FM will maintain separate conferences with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Deputy Prime Minister and Overseas Minister Senator Ishaq Dar, in accordance with a press release issued by the Overseas Workplace (FO).
“This go to supplies an necessary alternative to advance cooperation and dialogue between Pakistan and Iran on a variety of areas together with commerce, vitality and safety,” it added.
Aside from discussions on the regional state of affairs, one official instructed The Information that the upcoming Islamic Summit in Saudi Arabia can be anticipated to be raised in Araghci’s assembly with Dar.
The state of affairs on the Pak-Iran border is one other concern on the bilateral agenda.
In January this 12 months, relations between the 2 nations had turned bitter after Islamabad, in retaliation to Tehran’s cross-border strikes, carried out precision strikes utilizing killer drones, rockets, loitering munitions and stand-off weapons to focus on terrorists inside Iranian territory.
Pakistan had even withdrawn its ambassador from Iran and introduced that it could not enable the Iranian envoy visiting his residence nation at the moment to return as a gesture of protest in opposition to the breach of its sovereignty by Iran.
The diplomatic ties, nonetheless, have been quickly restored with the ambassadors of the 2 nations returning to their respective posts.
Later in April, the then-Iranian president, late Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, visited Pakistan to deepen bilateral cooperation.
Nonetheless, 63-year-old Raisi alongside his international minister and 6 others died after their helicopter went down within the nation’s mountainous northwest whereas coming back from a dam inauguration on the border with Azerbaijan.