Islamabad, AFP, 17 January 2016 – Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will lead a high-level delegation to Saudi Arabia and Iran this week to try to ease tension between the two countries, a minister said Sunday.
Information minister Pervez Rashid told AFP Sharif would travel to Riyadh on Monday and Tehran on Tuesday and would meet Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
Foreign ministry spokesman Qazi Khalilullah said Sharif would exchange views on regional and international issues and try to reduce tension between the two countries.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its Arab allies cut diplomatic ties with Iran after Iranian mobs ransacked the Saudi embassy in Tehran and its consulate in the city of Mashhad.
Local media said Pakistan’s powerful army chief General Raheel Sharif would accompany Premier Sharif.