{"id":67374,"date":"2026-08-21T13:10:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=67374"},"modified":"2026-08-21T13:10:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:10:53","slug":"prime-minister-pakistan-invites-president-syria-ahmed-al-sharaa-to-undertake-official-visit-assures-support-on-golan-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/prime-minister-pakistan-invites-president-syria-ahmed-al-sharaa-to-undertake-official-visit-assures-support-on-golan-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Pakistan Invites President Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa to Undertake Official Visit | Assures Support on Golan Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67376\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pakistan-Syria-PM-FM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pakistan-Syria-PM-FM.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pakistan-Syria-PM-FM-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pakistan-Syria-PM-FM-218x150.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>ISLAMABAD: 20 August 2026 &#8211; Foreign Minister of the Syrian Arab Republic, Mr. Asaad Hassan Al-Shaibani, called on Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif today.<\/p>\n<p>Welcoming Mr. Al-Shaibani and his delegation, the Prime Minister conveyed his best wishes for President Ahmed al-Sharaa, and recalled his recent interactions with him. He also reaffirmed Pakistan&#8217;s steadfast support for the sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity of Syria.<\/p>\n<p>While recalling the historic and multifaceted ties between the two countries, the Prime Minister emphasized the need to translate the longstanding Pakistan-Syria friendship into enhanced cooperation across politics, defence, trade, investment, education, and human resource development.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the resumption of direct flights between the two countries would enhance people-to-people exchanges and facilitate a large number of pilgrims who undertake religious visits to Syria from Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister reaffirmed Pakistan\u2019s support for Syria\u2019s unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity and said Pakistan would firmly support Syria\u2019s position on the Golan Heights.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian Foreign Minister conveyed the greetings of Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa to the Prime Minister, and briefed him on Syria&#8217;s ongoing political transition and reconstruction efforts.<\/p>\n<p>He thanked Pakistan for its consistent support to Syria throughout the past years and expressed his government&#8217;s keen interest in revitalizing bilateral engagement, including through early institutional mechanisms for cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister also extended an invitation to President Ahmed al-Sharaa to undertake an official visit to Pakistan at a mutually convenient date.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Muhammad Ishaq Dar, SAPM Syed Tariq Fatemi and Foreign Secretary Amb. Amna Baloch were also present during the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: 20 August 2026 &#8211; Foreign Minister of the Syrian Arab Republic, Mr. Asaad Hassan Al-Shaibani, called on Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif today. Welcoming Mr. Al-Shaibani and his delegation, the Prime Minister conveyed his best wishes for President Ahmed al-Sharaa, and recalled his recent interactions with him. He also reaffirmed Pakistan&#8217;s steadfast support for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[1622,5012,7044,6359,319,48,58,2082,426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67378,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67374\/revisions\/67378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}