After attending the funeral in Tehran, the prime minister is expected to travel to Istanbul for a bilateral visit to Turkiye.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif leaves Islamabad on Friday for a one-day visit to Iran, where he will attend the funeral of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. PHOTO: PMO
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif left Islamabad on Friday for a one-day visit to Iran, where he will attend the funeral of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, who was killed in airstrikes on the first day of the war, according to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
Khamenei’s funeral processions will begin on July 4 in Tehran and conclude on July 9 with his burial in his hometown of Mashhad, with additional ceremonies planned in Qom and Iraq between these dates.
The prime minister is accompanied by National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar, Pakistan People’s Party President Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, party General Secretary Nayyar Hussain Bukhari and Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah.
According to the PMO, Prime Minister Shehbaz will offer his condolences to the Iranian leadership and the bereaved family on behalf of the government and people of Pakistan, and reaffirm Pakistan’s solidarity with the people of Iran.
After attending the funeral in Tehran, the prime minister is expected to travel to Istanbul for a bilateral visit to Türkiye.
Read: Supreme leader’s body arrives at Tehran religious complex for funeral: state media
Iran’s ruling clerics are preparing days of mass funeral rites for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a show of public devotion to the Islamic Republic. “The body of the martyred leader of the Islamic Revolution has arrived in Imam Khomeini’s Great Mosalla,” Iranian state media reported. IRNA he wrote on Telegram, using the complex’s official name, he said today.
Senate President Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani arrived in Tehran today with a high-level delegation to attend the funeral prayers and burial of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, according to pay televisionwho shared the update on X. Iranian officials welcomed the Pakistani delegation upon its arrival in Tehran.
The death of Khamenei and the succession of his son Mojtaba as Iran’s third supreme leader, in a conflict with its greatest enemies, mark a momentous moment in the 47-year history of the Islamic Republic. Mojtaba, seriously injured in the attack that killed his father, has not appeared in any new pictures since the war began.
