ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto has decided to attend the funeral prayers of Iran’s late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, party sources said on Monday.
Bilawal Bhutto will visit Iran with the Pakistan’s delegation led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, according to PPP sources. The Pakistani delegation led by the PM will visit Iran on July 3 to 4.
Party sources have said that PPP chairman will likely meet with Iran’s President and other leadership.
The funeral rites will open with two farewell events on July 4 and 5 at Imam Khomeini Mosalla in Tehran. A central procession will move through the capital on Monday, July 6. Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei’s coffin will be carried alongside four other martyrs of the family. Bilawal Bhutto on his return from Iran will visit Gilgit-Baltistan to attend the oath-taking ceremony of the chief minister of G-B, sources said.
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