Jordan’s King Abdallah to Visit Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, 18 August 2006 — King Abdallah of Jordan will visit Pakistan on a one-day official tour on Tuesday and will be holding talks with President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. According to sources, the Israel-Lebanon issue is set to be one of the more important topics that will be discussed by the leaders of Pakistan and Jordan. In another development, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Mian Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri told journalists in the Syrian capital of Damascus that Pakistan has so far not decided to deploy its troops as peacekeepers in Lebanon.