Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has arrived in Tehran to attend the funeral of Iran’s former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, state-run PTV News reports.

The premier had departed for Iran to attend the funeral earlier in the day, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said.

“The prime minister will express heartfelt condolences to the Iranian leadership and the bereaved families and reaffirm Pakistan’s complete solidarity with the brotherly Iranian nation in this hour of grief,” it said.