Iranian President will maintain conferences with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (File)

Islamabad:

Amidst spiralling tensions within the Center East, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is ready to go to Pakistan on April 22 and maintain conferences with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, President Asif Ali Zardari and the army management, based on a media report on Monday.

The 63-year-old chief’s anticipated go to will happen days after Tehran launched greater than 300 drones and missiles at Israel in retaliation to an alleged Israeli airstrike on its Damascus consulate in Syria that killed a number of individuals, together with two senior commanders of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Geo Information reported.

The go to additionally assumes significance because it comes amidst ongoing efforts by Pakistan and Iran to deepen their cooperation which acquired a brief setback earlier this yr.

In January, Pakistan, in retaliation to Iran’s cross-border strikes, carried out precision strikes utilizing killer drones and rockets to focus on terrorists inside Iranian territory, the report mentioned.

Two bases of the Sunni Baloch group ‘Jaish al-Adl’ in Pakistan’s unruly Balochistan province have been focused by missiles and drones, Iranian state media reported.

Jaish al-Adl, or the “Military of Justice”, is a Baloch Sunni group based in 2012 that largely operates in Pakistan.

Pakistan had even withdrawn its ambassador from Iran and introduced that it could not permit the Iranian envoy, who was visiting his residence nation at the moment, to return as a gesture of protest towards the breach of its sovereignty by Iran, Geo Information reported.

Nonetheless, the diplomatic ties have been quickly restored with the ambassadors of the 2 nations returning to their respective posts.

The sources, as per the report, mentioned the agenda of President Raisi’s go to contains bilateral ties, safety cooperation, a fuel pipeline and a possible Free Commerce Settlement (FTA).

The Iranian president’s go to additionally holds significance as the 2 nations share key financial pursuits, most notably the Pakistan-Iran fuel pipeline, the report mentioned.

In one other improvement, Iran introduced on Monday that they might launch Pakistanis stranded on a ship seized by the Iranian forces, after affirmation of their nationalities and finishing authorized formalities attributable to brotherly ties between the 2 nations, the report mentioned.

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