Overview
- Pakistan’s Foreign Office has confirmed that Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian will undertake a formal state visit with a senior ministerial delegation.
- Pezeshkian is scheduled to hold formal talks with Pakistan’s top leadership, including the president, the prime minister, the chairman of the senate and the speaker of the national assembly.
- Officials say the agenda will concentrate on reviewing the full bilateral relationship with priority areas of trade, energy cooperation, border security, people-to-people exchanges and connectivity.
- A central aim of the meetings is to follow up on commitments in the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding and to assess progress on agreed projects and timelines.
- The visit builds on a recent pattern of resumed diplomatic engagement between Islamabad and Tehran and could lead to practical steps on cross-border security coordination and trade links that would affect local border communities and energy supplies.