After attending funeral in Tehran, 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 is due to attend the funeral of Iran’s late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. PHOTO: PMO
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif departed Islamabad on Friday for a one-day visit to Iran, where he is due to 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).
Funeral processions for Khamenei 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 Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the party’s Secretary General Nayyar Hussain Bukhari, and Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah.
According to the PMO, PM Shehbaz will offer 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 at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla,” Iranian state media IRNA wrote on Telegram, using the complex’s official name, said earlier today.
Senate Chairman Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani arrived in Tehran earlier today with a high-level delegation to attend the funeral prayers and burial of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, according to PTV, which shared the update on X. Iranian officials welcomed the Pakistani delegation upon its arrival in Tehran.
Khamenei’s death and the succession of his son Mojtaba as Iran’s third supreme leader, in a conflict with its greatest foes, mark an epochal moment in the Islamic Republic’s 47-year history. Mojtaba, dangerously wounded in the strike that killed his father, has not been seen in any new image since the war began.
