- Shehbaz received the salute from the armed forces at the Vienna airport.
- First visit of Pakistani Prime Minister to Austria in over 30 years since 1992.
- The high-level delegation includes Dar, Tarar, Fatemi and Baloch.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in 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 upon arrival at the Vienna International Airport, and a contingent of the Austrian Armed Forces presented a salute,” read the statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office.
The Prime Minister shared on X his arrival 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 bonds of friendship between Pakistan and Austria,” the Prime Minister said, adding that the focus would be on trade, investment and economic cooperation.
Shehbaz, in the same post, said 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 commitments, he said, would focus on “deepening our cooperation in the areas of peaceful nuclear energy, counter-narcotics and crime control,” [and] sustainable industrial development and shared progress.
Raising the curtain on the visit, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Prime Minister Shehbaz will pay an official visit to Vienna from February 15 to 16, 2026.
He is traveling to this 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 Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar, Minister of Information, Mr. Attaullah Tarar, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Syed Tariq Fatemi and Ambassador to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, 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 overall 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, the statement added.
The statement underlines that “Pakistan and Austria enjoy cordial and friendly relations, underpinned by common 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 of then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 1992, the foreign ministry added.
