Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif accompanied by Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif will visit Saudi Arabia and Iran on Monday to help reduce diplomatic tensions between the two Islamic countries.
The Prime Minister on Monday will depart for Riyadh, where he will meet with Saudi King Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. He will also hold meetings with high Saudi officials.
On Tuesday, Nawaz Sharif will meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran.
Besides the army chief, the Prime Minister will also be accompanied by his Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz and Special Assistant Tariq Fatmi.
It may be added that the ties between the two countries were already strained over the war in Syria. Riyadh severed the diplomatic ties after ransacking of its embassy in Tehran by protestors in the aftermath of execution of a cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr in Saudi Arabia.