ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud, will arrive in Islamabad on an official visit on July 27, Pakistani government and Saudi embassy officials confirmed on Saturday.
It will be Prince Faisal's second state visit to Pakistan within a year. He was in Islamabad in December 2020 for talks with Pakistani leadership.
“The Saudi foreign minister is expected in Islamabad on a day-long visit during the next week, during which bilateral relations and cooperation in various fields would be reviewed,” Prime Minister Imran Khan's special assistant on the Middle East, Tahir Ashrafi, told Arab News, while a Saudi embassy official said Prince Faisal is scheduled to arrive on Tuesday.
"Saudi foreign minister is visiting Pakistan on July 27," the embassy official said, adding the visit is a continuation of "high-level engagements between the two countries which started with the visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, followed by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to the kingdom."
The crown prince was in Islamabad on a high-profile visit in February 2019, during which Saudi Arabia signed investment deals with Pakistan worth $20 billion.
PM Khan visited Riyadh in May, with an entourage of Pakistan's top officials to sign several agreements on political, economic, trade, and defense cooperation.
According to Ashrafi, progress on the agreements will be reviewed during Prince Faisal's upcoming visit, which "will also focus on future cooperation between the two countries."
