Overview

• Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif landed in Kuala Lumpur and was received by Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil before Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim welcomed him at his residence.
• The Oct 5–7 visit comes at Anwar Ibrahim’s invitation and includes a high-level delegation featuring Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar, and adviser Tariq Fatemi.
• The two leaders will hold formal talks and are expected to witness the signing of agreements and MoUs spanning trade, IT and telecom, the halal industry, investment, education, energy, infrastructure, the digital economy, and people-to-people ties.
• Officials frame the visit as an effort to deepen the Malaysia–Pakistan partnership and accelerate economic cooperation built on earlier exchanges and the MPCEPA framework.
• Before departing, Shehbaz briefed Nawaz Sharif on recent diplomacy and the Azad Jammu and Kashmir situation, while party sources say he sought help easing PML-N–PPP tensions.