Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar Travel to Kabul on April 19 (tomorrow) and Dhaka on April 22 on important foreign visits, which was seen as an important breakthrough in the country’s bilateral relations with these two countries, sources said Thursday.

The sources confirmed to the Express Pakinomist that Dar would visit Kabul on Saturday (tomorrow), the first visit of any Pakistani Foreign Minister in three years. The last time any Pakistani top diplomat traveled to the Afghan capital was 2021 months after the Taliban returned to power in Kabul.

The upcoming visit by DAR in the neighboring country signalizes a thaw in the bilateral connections that remained strained in the last few years primarily due to Kabul’s reluctance to tackle Pakistan’s security concerns.

But this week, a Pakistani delegation visited by special envoy at Afghanistan Muhammad Sadiq Khan Kabul for a crucial meeting of the joint coordination committee (JCC). The meeting, the first 15 months, managed to pave the way for a seemingly breakthrough.

That was for the first time, the sources said the Afghan Taliban government had shown the will and seriousness to tackle Pakistan’s concerns about the forbidden Tehreek-E-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The development has enabled Pakistan to finally decide that it was time for the Foreign Minister to travel to the Afghan capital to promote the momentum.

The positive momentum in the relationship was confirmed by Ambassador Sadiq on Thursday. “In a welcome development, bilateral high -level bilateral engagements with Afghanistan resume after a long hiatus,” he wrote on X, a day after visiting Kabul.

“Pakistan, in consultation with Afghanistan, will now work to activate trilateral and multilateral mechanisms, including: The closest neighbors+Russia format, Pakistan-China Trilateral, Pakistan-Uzbekistan Trilateral and Pakistan-Iran-trilateral,” he added.

“In this context, I held a virtual meeting today with Mr. Yue Xiaoyong, China’s special representative of Afghanistan, to explore the resuscitation of the trilateral process of Afghanistan and follow -up on the previous agenda. The proposal will be discussed with the Afghan government briefly,” he said.

Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Dar is traveling to Dhaka on April 22 in a significant development that highlights growing ties between the two countries. This was the first visit of any Pakistani Foreign Minister to Bangladesh since 2012.

Prior to the decisive visit, Pakistan and Bangladesh on Thursday resumed crucial political consultations after a long gap of 15 years. “The 6th round of foreign secretary consultations took place at Dhaka today after a 15 -year -old hiatus,” read a statement issued here by the Foreign Office.