Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi arrived in Islamabad on Monday for a two-day official visit to discuss bilateral relations and the development of the situation in the Middle East.
During his visit, the Iranian Foreign Minister will hold separate meetings with Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Ishaq Dar, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He added, “This visit provides an important opportunity to enhance cooperation and dialogue between Pakistan and Iran in a wide range of fields including trade, energy and security.”
One of the officials said that apart from discussions about the regional situation News It is also expected that the upcoming Islamic summit in Saudi Arabia will be raised in Araqchi’s meeting with Dar.
The situation on the Pakistan-Iran border represents another issue on the bilateral agenda.
In January this year, relations between the two countries became strained after Islamabad, in response to Tehran’s cross-border strikes, carried out precision strikes using lethal drones, missiles, loitering munitions and reserve weapons to target terrorists inside Iranian territory.
Pakistan even withdrew its ambassador from Iran and announced that it would not allow the Iranian envoy, who was visiting his country at the time, to return as a gesture of protest against Iran’s violation of its sovereignty.
But diplomatic relations were soon restored with the return of the two countries’ ambassadors to their posts.
Later in April, the then Iranian President, the late Seyed Ebrahim Raisi, visited Pakistan to deepen bilateral cooperation.
However, 63-year-old Raisi died alongside his foreign minister and six others after their helicopter crashed in the mountainous northwestern region of the country while returning from the inauguration of a dam on the border with Azerbaijan.