ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is leaving today (Wednesday) for Bahrain on an official two-day visit, from where he will travel to London for a brief private visit which may be extended to three days.
Sources said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif gets his regular medical check-up by his doctors in London. It is learnt that the Prime Minister will return home on Sunday.
A high-level delegation, including Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar, federal ministers and senior officers, will accompany the Prime Minister to Manama.
It has been officially stated that the Prime Minister will undertake an official visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain on November 26–27. The visit reaffirms longstanding and multifaceted relationship between the two brotherly countries.
During the visit, the Prime Minister will hold high-level engagements with the leadership of Bahrain to further enhance bilateral cooperation in the areas of trade, investment, energy, technology, education and culture.
The visit is expected to reinforce the traditionally warm and cordial ties, identify new avenues of partnership, and deepen people-to-people linkages, contributing to mutually beneficial cooperation.
This visit underscores Pakistan’s continued engagement with the Kingdom of Bahrain, aimed at fostering a results-oriented and strategic partnership between the two countries.
Meanwhile, sources close to PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif told The News on Tuesday that he is well and back in Lahore. He underwent minor throat surgery last month and has fully recovered.
Nawaz Sharif has personally felicitated the PML-N’s returned candidates in Sunday’s bye-elections which the party swept. Nawaz Sharif has no plan to travel abroad anytime soon, the sources added.
