<p>Islamabad, May 2 (PTI): Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang will travel to Pakistan this week on a maiden visit during which he will hold strategic talks with the country's top officials and is expected to attend a trilateral meeting involving Afghanistan, according to a media report.</p><p>The Chinese leader would land in Islamabad on May 5 immediately after attending the SCO Foreign Ministers' Meet 2023 in India.</p><p>Dunya News channel reported quoting sources that the Qin would hold strategic talks with Pakistani officials during the visit on May 6.</p><p>Pakistan and China are also expected to hold a trilateral meeting with Afghanistan to discuss the regional situation.</p><p>The moot would be held in Islamabad and it would be attended by interim Afghan foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi.</p><p>A UN Security Council committee on Monday agreed to allow the Muttaqi to travel to Pakistan from Afghanistan next week to meet with the foreign ministers of Pakistan and China, diplomats said.</p><p>Muttaqi has long been subjected to a travel ban, asset freeze and arms embargo under Security Council sanctions.</p><p>Chinese and Pakistani officials have both said in the past that they would welcome Taliban-led Afghanistan into the multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) infrastructure project, part of Chinese President Xi Jinping's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative.</p><p>Afghanistan sits as a key geographical trade and transit route between South and Central Asia and has billions of dollars of untapped mineral resources. The Taliban seized power in August 2021 as US-led forces withdrew after 20 years of war.</p><p>The Security Council committee allowed Muttaqi to travel to Uzbekistan last month for a meeting of the foreign ministers of neighbouring countries of Afghanistan to discuss urgent peace, security, and stability matters. PTI SH NSA</p><p><i>(This story is published as part of the auto-generated syndicate wire feed. No editing has been done in the headline or the body by ABP Live.)</i></p>
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