Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is due to travel to Islamabad at the head of a high-powered economic delegation on Sunday.
"Zarif's three-day trip is meant to reciprocate the visit by Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif to Iran last September," Mehdi Honardoost, the ambassador to the southeastern neighbor, said in an interview with IRNA on Friday.
Besides his counterpart, Zarif is scheduled to sit down with other top Pakistani officials, including Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal and army chief, Qamar Javed Bajwa.
The top-level delegation will also include 30 business leaders, indicating that developing economic cooperation to achieve the target of $5 billion of bilateral trade will be among the issues to top the agenda of Zarif's Islamabad meetings.
The close bilateral relations turned sour over Tehran's grievances about poor border security controls from the Pakistani side that allowed frequent cross-border attacks by terrorist groups against security forces in Iran's southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan Province.
But the tensions have shown signs of easing in recent months after the Pakistani government acted to tighten security at the common border.
