Mottaki to visit Pakistan

Published January 4, 2008

TEHRAN, Jan 3: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will head to Pakistan on Friday to pay respects to the assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the state news agency IRNA reported.

Mr Mottaki will meet President Pervez Musharraf, interim Prime Minister Mohammedmian Soomro and Foreign Minister Inam ul Haque, the news agency cited the public relations department of the Iranian embassy in Islamabad as saying.—AFP

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