Overview
- President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif received Prabowo at Nur Khan Airbase with a red-carpet welcome.
- The Indonesian leader arrived with a delegation of key ministers and senior officials for meetings in Islamabad.
- Scheduled engagements include delegation-level talks with Shehbaz Sharif plus meetings with Zardari and Chief of Defence Forces Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir.
- Pakistan’s business groups urged negotiations toward deeper trade ties, including a possible FTA, as bilateral trade was about $4.7 billion in 2024 and $2.92 billion in January–September 2025.
- The visit is Prabowo’s first to Pakistan, following the last Indonesian presidential trip in 2018 by Joko Widodo, with defence cooperation highlighted in recent high-level contacts.