She will be accompanied by foreign secretary S Jaishankar.
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On Thursday last, Foreign Office spokesman Qazi Khalilullah said Islamabad was waiting for official confirmation about the participation of Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in the conference and the situation is still more or less the same as New Delhi has yet to come up with confirmation.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will chair a high-level meeting at the Governor House in Karachi and take up the issue of extending the Rangers’ stay in the port city with the Sindh government today (Monday).
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali is also accompanying PM during the visit.
The Prime Minister extended felicitations to the Chief of the Air Staff for successful completion of the inter-squadron competition, in which the PAF fighter squadrons demonstrated their excellence in weapon delivery standards.
The “Heart of Asia Conference” will be held in Islamabad where Afghan peace will be the topic of main discussion besides cooperation between other regional countries.
During the meeting the chief ministe brief the prime minister about peaceful conduct of local government elections in Karachi.
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The duo had earlier met in Russian city of Ufa and agreed that their National Security Advisors would meet. He said that the investigations into the recent killing of Rangers personnel in Karachi were still under way but he refrained from pointing a finger towards anyone. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is expected to visit Pakistan to jointly inaugurate the conference with Sharif.
