Overview
- President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif received the Jordanian monarch at Nur Khan Airbase in Islamabad.
- Pakistan Air Force JF-17 Thunder jets escorted the royal aircraft as it entered Pakistani airspace.
- A special investiture at Aiwan-e-Sadr will confer Pakistan’s highest civilian award on King Abdullah II.
- The king is scheduled to hold separate meetings with Pakistan’s top leadership to review the full spectrum of ties and explore expanded collaboration.
- This is his first visit since earlier accords on civil protection, defence and housing were signed, and follows an October meeting in Amman where he voiced interest in deeper defence cooperation, according to ISPR.