Emirs of Kuwait, Qatar agree to visit Pakistan after PM Shehbaz’s invitation

ISLAMABAD: The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, and the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, agreed to visit Pakistan after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s invitation, the PM Office media wing said in a press release.

According to the details, the Emir of Qatar and Kuwait have accepted the invitation which was conveyed by Kuwait’s Ambassador to Pakistan, Nassar Abdulrahman Jasser Almutairi, and Qatar’s Ambassador to Pakistan, Ali Mubarak Ali Essa Al-Khater during separate meetings with PM Shehbaz in Islamabad today.

In his meeting with the Prime Minister, the Kuwaiti Ambassador presented a letter from the Emir of Kuwait, expressing his intention to visit Pakistan on mutually agreed dates, it said.

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“Upon receiving the letter, the Prime Minister highlighted his recent meeting with the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum’s special meeting in Riyadh last month,” it maintained.

The Prime Minister expressed satisfaction that the upcoming meeting of the Pakistan-Kuwait Joint Ministerial Commission would take place in Kuwait from the 28th to the 30th of this month, the press release said.

In a separate meeting, Ambassador of Qatar Ali Mubarak Ali Essa Al-Khater also met with Prime Minister Shehbaz in Islamabad.

During this meeting, Qatar’s Ambassador delivered a letter from the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, accepting the invitation extended by the Prime Minister to officially visit Pakistan on mutually agreed dates, it added.

PM Shehbaz emphasized Pakistan’s profound appreciation for its historic fraternal relations with Qatar and reiterated Pakistan’s unwavering commitment to further strengthening mutual cooperation between the two brotherly nations.