Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has arrived in Tehran to hold talks with senior Iranian officials on key bilateral, regional, and global issues.
Heading a delegation, Sharif arrived in Tehran on Monday at the invitation of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.
The prime minister was officially welcomed by the Iranian president at the Sa’adabad cultural-historical complex in northern Tehran.
A meeting of Iranian and Pakistani high-ranking delegations and a joint press conference in the presence of Pezeshkian and Sharif are among the agenda of the visit.
The Pakistani prime minister was welcomed by Iran’s Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni at Tehran Mehrabad airport upon his arrival.
Sharif started a four-leg regional tour on Sunday by traveling to Turkey. He also plans to visit Azerbaijan and Tajikistan.
Speaking in an interview with IRNA ahead of his visit, Sharif hailed Iran’s peace diplomacy as commendable, underscoring his nation’s solidarity and support for the Islamic Republic.
He said that the primary purpose of his visit to Tehran is to express gratitude to Iran for its support, specifically endorsing Iran’s peace diplomacy in the region, during Pakistan’s recent tensions with India.
