Zarif to Head to Pakistan Sunday for 3-Day Visit

Date: 09 March 2018 - 21:52

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ISLAMABAD (Dispatches) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif will travel to Pakistan on Sunday for a three-day visit, Iran’s Ambassador to Islamabad Mehdi Honardoust announced on Friday.
Heading a high-ranking delegation, Zarif will visit at the official invitation of his Pakistani counterpart Khawaja Muhammad Asif in response to the latter’s day-long trip to Tehran in September.
The Iranian minister will sit down with the Pakistani foreign minister, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal and Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa as well as National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq.
The Iranian foreign minister will also attend Pakistan Economic Forum (PEF) in Islamabad and deliver a speech at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI), Honardoust noted.
Zarif will further travel to the southern port city of Karachi and visit the mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah to pay tribute to the founder of Pakistan.
Iran and Pakistan seek to increase bilateral trade volume to almost five billion dollars per year.
At the end of his last visit to Islamabad in May, the Iranian foreign minister said Tehran and Islamabad have agreed to increase cooperation to boost security at the two countries’ border areas.