Iran's foreign minister visits Pakistan to discuss Middle East and bilateral ties

Iran’s overseas curate has arrived successful Pakistan’s superior connected a two-day charismatic sojourn to talk a scope of issues, including tensions successful nan Middle East and further improving bilateral ties, officials said Tuesday

ISLAMABAD -- Iran’s overseas curate arrived successful Pakistan's superior Tuesday for a two-day charismatic sojourn to talk a scope of issues, including tensions successful nan Middle East and further improving bilateral ties, officials said Tuesday.

Abbas Araghchi was received by Pakistani officials conscionable aft midnight erstwhile his level landed astatine an airdrome adjacent Islamabad. He will meet pinch Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar and different officials astatine nan Foreign Ministry connected Tuesday.

The sojourn comes arsenic Iran is successful an escalating standoff pinch Israel. Iranian officials are progressively threatening to motorboat yet different onslaught against Israel after its Oct. 26 onslaught connected nan Islamic Republic that targeted subject bases and different locations and killed astatine slightest 5 people.

Pakistan denounced Israel's strikes astatine nan time.

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said successful a connection that nan sojourn besides “provides an important opportunity to beforehand practice and speech betwixt Pakistan and Iran connected a wide scope of areas including trade, power and security."

Iran has sought for years to revive a long-stalled multi-billion state pipeline task launched successful 2013 to proviso Iranian earthy state to energy-starved Pakistan. The task — opposed by Washington arsenic a usurpation of sanctions imposed connected Tehran complete its atomic programme — has been connected clasp since 2014.