Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif is scheduled to meet with President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to address issues of mutual interest, with a particular emphasis on commerce and investment.

Shehbaz would be making his first trip to the United Arab Emirates since taking up the prime ministership following the general elections in 2024. The PM would be joined by a high-level delegation made up of the important ministers from the federal cabinet, according to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Meetings between PM Shehbaz and other Emirati officials, businesspeople, and financial institution heads are anticipated.

Long-standing brotherly ties with a strong religious and cultural bond exist between Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates. Regular high-level interactions are one of the characteristics that set the two nations’ fraternal relations apart.

Last weekend, Ibrahim Salem Al-Zaabi, the Pakistani envoy to the UAE, came back to finalize the plans for Shehbaz’s visit.

The prime minister’s visit is a significant step toward strengthening Pakistan and the UAE’s bilateral cooperation in a variety of areas.

On April 18, Bakheet Al-Remeithi, the consul general of the United Arab Emirates in Karachi, stated that Pakistanis played a significant part in the growth of Dubai.

At the official opening of an Arabic language center within the government-run vocational training facility in the Buffer Zone, he had made this statement. Al-Remeithi gave the center’s opening speech in Arabic.

According to the general consul, Pakistanis would receive preferential hiring treatment in all industries, and pupils at the vocational center would soon receive calls from the UAE immigration center. He had advised the pupils to remove and not trust anti-national films they saw on social media.