Chinese president to visit Pakistan on April 20

Xi Jinping's visit would be the first of its kind in the past nine years

Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to make his first state visit to Pakistan between April 20 and 21, Express News reported Friday. 

Earlier, in a joint press conference, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi confirmed the president's visit to Pakistan within the next few months but no date had been set for the visit.

Read: Xi Jinping to make first state visit to Pakistan soon, says Chinese foreign minister

A profound friendship has developed between the two countries over the past few years and this visit would make it the first of its kind in the past nine years.

Read: Welcome visit: Xi due to arrive this month 

Wang Yi visited Pakistan in February on an official two-day tour in which Pakistan and China were in agreement of everything that was discussed.

The Chinese president was scheduled to visit Pakistan last year, but had to delay his trips in the wake of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Pakistan Awami Tehreek's Azadi march outside Parliament.

“We (China and Pakistan) have mutually agreed to postpone the visit,” a senior official in the Chinese embassy had told The Express Tribune.