Iran president to visit Pakistan, boost ties: Islamabad

ISLAMABAD, Apr 21: Irans President Ebrahim Raisi will travel to Islamabad on Monday to meet his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistans foreign ministry said, as the two countries seek to mend ties following deadly cross-border attacks this year.

Raisi will be accompanied by "a high-level delegation comprising the foreign minister... as well as a large business delegation," the foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

The tit-for-tat missile strikes in January in the porous border region of Balochistan -- split between the two nations -- stoked regional tensions already inflamed by the Israel-Hamas war. Tehran carried out the strikes against an anti-Iran group in Pakistan the same week it targeted Iraq and Syria.    —AFP