Local media reported that the Prime Minister will be accompanied by the Chief of Army Staff, Raheel Sharif.
According to official sources, both will arrive in Riyadh on Monday, where they will meet with King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. On Tuesday, after arriving in Tehran, they will hold conversations with President Hassan Rouhani.
The tension between the two countries escalated after the execution of the Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, which led to an assault by a group of extremists against the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Tehran and the Saudi consulate in the city of Mashhad. This was taken by Riyadh as a pretext for breaking off diplomatic relations.
On three occasions, the adviser on Foreign Affairs to Nawaz Sharif, Sartaj Aziz, advocated for Pakistani mediation in order to find a solution to the conflict and warned about the consequences of a war for the Muslim world.
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