{"id":86761,"date":"2026-08-07T11:17:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/?p=86761"},"modified":"2026-08-10T11:21:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:21:41","slug":"pm-shehbaz-saudi-crown-prince-turkish-president-offer-friday-prayers-at-al-safa-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/pm-shehbaz-saudi-crown-prince-turkish-president-offer-friday-prayers-at-al-safa-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Shehbaz, Saudi Crown Prince, Turkish President offer Friday prayers at Al-Safa Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and T\u00fcrkiye leaders offer prayers together at Al-Safa Palace, joined by senior officials from the three countries<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><strong>MAKKAH AL-MUKARRAMAH:<\/strong> Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan offered Friday prayers at Al-Safa Palace in Makkah on Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar, Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, along with senior Saudi and Turkish officials, were also present on the occasion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The gathering reflected the close fraternal and strategic relations among Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and T\u00fcrkiye, as the three countries\u2019 leaders came together in the holy city of Makkah amid high-level consultations on matters of mutual interest and regional security.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PM Shehbaz, Saudi Crown Prince, Turkish President offer Friday prayers at Al-Safa Palace\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uINCB5sZQnA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and T\u00fcrkiye leaders offer prayers together at Al-Safa Palace, joined by senior officials from the three countries MAKKAH AL-MUKARRAMAH: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan offered Friday prayers at Al-Safa Palace in Makkah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":86762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-diplomacy","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86763,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86761\/revisions\/86763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}