ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri will pay an official visit to Iran next month for bilateral consultations on key issues including the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project.

This was stated by the Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator Mushahid Hussain at a dinner he hosted in honour of a media delegation from Iran here on Friday.

On the gas pipeline project he declared that Pakistan and Iran were both fully committed to it. “We are very clear,” Senator Mushahid said.

Referring to the pressure Pakistan had faced on Iran’s nuclear issue at the IAEA, he stated: “We did not succumb to pressure, and China and Russia took a principled position.”

Pakistan and Iran have always had special and strong ties, Senator Hussain said, adding that successive governments in both countries had continued to build on them.

He underlined that Iran and Pakistan had stood by each other through thick and thin and would continue to do so.