Qatar Amir Shaikh Tamim bin Hamidal Sani has postponed his visit to Pakistan –scheduled for the second week of October – in wake of the possibility of a security situation arising due to the anti-government sit-ins staged by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) in Islamabad.
Agreements regarding the import of LNG to Pakistan and other projects related to Qatari investment in Pakistan were reportedly going to be signed during Sani’s visit.
However, the Qatari Foreign Ministry advised Sani to postpone the visit in view of the security situation in Pakistan, INP news agency claimed.
Meanwhile, Qatar’s deputy foreign minister also shortened his Islamabad stay and cancelled a meeting with a Pakistani federal minister following the cancellation of Sani’s visit, INP sources said.
The Qatari deputy foreign minister was due in Islamabad Tuesday after attending the inaugural ceremony of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul and was to meet Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi but as Abbasi was not in the city, the meeting was scheduled with State Minister for Petroleum Jam Kamal and some other senior officials.
When the Qatari minister was told about the postponement Sani’s visit of Qatri Amir, he cancelled a meeting with the state minister and left Islamabad after a few-hour stay, the sources added.
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