PM Shehbaz Sharif leaves for Saudi Arabia tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif, along with various Sharif family members, ministers and leaders of political parties, which are part of the current ruling alliance, will leave for Saudi Arabia on Wednesday (tomorrow).

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He presided over a meeting here on Monday to review preparations for his official visit to Saudi Arabia. He told the meeting that Pakistan valued its long-standing brotherly ties with Saudi Arabia and it was looking forward to enhancing the same in future. PM directed the relevant authorities to make effective recommendations for strengthening the Pak-Saudi Arabia bilateral relations. Especially in the areas of energy, food security, employment and long-term strategic partnership.

This is Shehbaz Sharif’s first foreign visit since assuming the office of prime minister. Separately, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb Monday clarified that PM Shehbaz Sharif neither going to Saudi Arabia on a chartered plane. She also said nor any journalist was going with him at the government expenses.

The minister, who said this in response to a statement by PTI leader Chaudhry Fawad, contended that truth and PTI two contradictory things. “A former information minister should ashamed of making such a baseless statement against journalists. While the prime minister is not going to use a chartered plane,” she asserted.

Ch Fawad Hussain had said in a tweet that. When Imran Khan had adopted the austerity policy, a number of journalists had made fun of it. “Now an aero plane full of journalists is being taken to Saudi Arabia. They are the same journalists who had been enjoying feasts at PM House these days.