{"id":42031,"date":"2026-02-27T18:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42031"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:04:27","slug":"pm-shehbaz-to-visit-moscow-from-march-3-5-russian-state-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42031","title":{"rendered":"PM Shehbaz to visit Moscow from March 3-5: Russian state media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif plans to visit Russia from March 3-5, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported on Thursday, citing Pakistani Ambassador to Moscow Faisal Niaz Tirmizi.<\/p>\n<p>Russia urged Afghanistan and Pakistan to halt cross-border attacks and resolve their differences through diplomatic means.<\/p>\n<p>Russian News Agency TASS also reported PM Shehbaz&#8217;s visit to Moscow, referring to remarks by former senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The visit of the prime minister of Pakistan to Russia will take place next week,&#8221; he stated while speaking at the Moscow-Islamabad media forum on February 27.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sayed, &#8220;this will be a historic visit&#8221; that will serve as &#8220;an additional stimulus for the development of bilateral relations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: Russia looks for alternative banking channels with Pakistan<\/p>\n<p>TASS also reported that Tirmizi previously hinted that PM Shehbaz would visit Russian in the first quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed growing relations between his country and Pakistan as &#8220;mutually beneficial&#8221; with cooperation expanding across sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Tirmizi had formally presented his credentials to the Russian president during a ceremony held at the Grand Kremlin Palace.<\/p>\n<p>The X account of the Russian Embassy in Pakistan had quoted Putin as saying on the occasion: &#8220;We are continuing close cooperation with Pakistan. Pakistan is a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, which is the region&#8217;s largest regional organisation in terms of economic, technical, and human resources. Russia-Pakistan relations are mutually beneficial in the truest sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf0 President Vladimir Putin on Russia-Pakistan relations:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We maintain close cooperation with Pakistan, a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the largest regional organisation in terms of economic, technological, and human potential. Russia-Pakistan relations\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/H5ahLv5JB2<br \/>\n\u2014 Embassy of Russia in Pakistan (@RusEmbPakistan) January 16, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Tirmizi had conveyed greetings from the president, prime minister and people of Pakistan to President Putin during the ceremony.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif plans to visit Russia from March 3-5, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported on Thursday, citing Pakistani Ambassador to Moscow Faisal Niaz Tirmizi. Russia urged Afghanistan and Pakistan to halt cross-border attacks and resolve their differences through diplomatic means. Russian News Agency TASS also reported PM Shehbaz&#8217;s visit to Moscow, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}