- Shehbaz received with armed forces salute at Vienna airport.
- First Pakistani Prime Minister visit to Austria in over 30 years since 1992.
- High level delegation includes Dar, Tarar, Fatemi and Baloch.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif reached Vienna on Sunday to begin a two-day official tour of Austria, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said, highlighting efforts to deepen bilateral cooperation.
“The Prime Minister and the Pakistani delegation were warmly welcomed on arrival at the Vienna International Airport and a contingent of the Austrian Armed Forces presented a salute,” the PMO statement read.
The prime minister shared that he had arrived in Vienna, describing the Austrian capital as a “city of history, culture and global diplomacy.”
“I look forward to my meeting with Chancellor Christian Stocker to further strengthen the friendly ties between Pakistan and Austria,” the prime minister said, adding that their focus would be trade, investment and economic cooperation.
Shehbaz said in the same post that he would also hold meetings with the heads of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization during his visit.
These engagements, he said, would focus on “deepening our cooperation in peaceful nuclear energy, counter-narcotics and crime control, [and] sustainable industrial development and common progress”.
Raising the curtain on the visit, the Ministry of External Affairs said that Prime Minister Shehbaz will pay an official visit to Vienna from February 15 to 16, 2026.
He is visiting the Central European country at the invitation of its leader, Chancellor Stocker.
“The Prime Minister will be accompanied by a high-level delegation including Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar, Special Assistant to Prime Minister Syed Tariq Fatemi, and Foreign Minister Ambassador Amna Baloch,” the statement added.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “During the visit, the Prime Minister will hold bilateral talks with his Austrian counterpart to review the full spectrum of bilateral relations.”
He will also chair a meeting of the Pakistan-Austria Business Forum, organized by the Austrian Economic Chamber (WKO), and visit key multilateral organizations, it added.
The statement highlighted that “Pakistan and Austria enjoy cordial and friendly relations, underpinned by shared values of dialogue, cooperation, multilateralism and respect for international law.”
This will be the first visit by a Pakistani prime minister to Austria in over three decades, after the last trip by then prime minister Nawaz Sharif in 1992, the foreign ministry added.
