Chinese FM to visit Pak to finalise Xi's trip

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Pakistan next week to finalise President Xi Jinping's trip to the country in March, a media report said today.
Wang will arrive here on February 9 and meet Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the PM House and Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz to finalise the scheduled visit of Xi from March 22, Dawn newspaper said.
A diplomatic source had told the newspaper that the Chinese president is expected to attend the Pakistan Day parade as chief guest on March 23.
Both China and Pakistan are working out details of the Chinese president's visit through diplomatic channels.

"We are in the middle of a process to finalise the drafts of various agreements to be signed during the visit of the Chinese president," Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal told Dawn.
The Chinese president would formally open the Pakistan-China economic corridor from a location not be disclosed due to security concerns, a source said.
"The visit by the Chinese president is extraordinary because of two reasons, first due to the visit by US President Barack Obama to India last month and second due to long awaited joint services military parade on 23rd march in Islamabad which would be graced by the Chinese president," Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed told Dawn.