The President of Pakistan is the head of state of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. During the tenure presidents visit different countries. The following is the list of foreign trips of Presidents of Pakistan.
*Foreign visits (especially private visits) which don't include any considerable engagement are excluded from this list.
Pervez Musharraf Chief Executive : 12 October 1999 - 21 November 2002
President: 20 June 2001 - 18 August 2008
1999 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 25-27 October Met with King Fahd. Met with President Zayed bin Sultan . 7-9 November Met with Emir of Qatar Met with President Süleyman Demirel. Visited Mustafa Kemal Atatürk shrine. Met with Emir of Kuwait. 8-9 December Met with Emir Hamad bin Isa. Met with Khamenei and President Khatami.
2000 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 17-18 January Met with President Jiang Zemin and Premier Zhu Rongji. 27 March - 4 April Met with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Met with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Met with President Abdurrahman Wahid. Met with Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah. Met with Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai. 9-19 April Musharraf met French Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine. Attended "The South Summit of G77 ". Met with President Fidel Castro. Met with President Hosni Mubarak and PM Atef Ebeid. Met with Leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi. 15-16 May Met with President Saparmurat Niyazov. 10-12 June Attended "6th ECO Summit". Met with Sultan Qaboos bin Said. 6-7 November Met with President Saparmurat Niyazov. Met with President Nursultan Nazarbayev. 12-14 November Attended "9th OIC Summit".
2001 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 7-10 January Met with President Bashar al-Assad and Prime Minister Muhammad Mero. Met with King Abdullah II. Met with President Émile Lahoud. 24-25 February Attended "D-8 Summit". 1-5 May Signed bilateral agreement on Science and Technology Met with Prime Minister Phan Văn Khải. 14-16 July Attended Agra Summit but it was ended without any conclusion. 7-14 November Stopover. Met with First Vice President Reza Aref. Met with President Jacques Chirac. Met with PM Tony Blair. Attended UNGA session. Met with US President George W. Bush. Met with PM Bülent Ecevit. 20-24 December Met with President and Vice President of China.
2002 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 3-6 January Met with Premier of China. Attended "11th SAARC Summit". 12-14 February Met with President Bush and Defense secretary Rumsfeld. 13-16 March Met with Emperor Akihito and PM Junichiro Koizumi. 2 April Met Afghan Interim Administration chairman, Hamid Karzai. 2-4 June Met with President Emomali Rahmon. Attended "1st CICA Summit". Also met Presidents of China and Russia. 10-12 June Met with President Zayed bin Sultan. Met with Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. 29 July - 2 August Met with PM Khaleda Zia. Met with PM Ranil Wickremesinghe. Met with President Jiang Zemin. 12 September Attended UNGA session. 14 October Attended "7th ECO Summit". 28-29 October Met with King Fahd.
2003 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 4-6 February Met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. 23-25 February Attended "13th NAM Summit". 11 June Met with Crown Prince Abdullah. 17 June - 4 July Met with PM Tony Blair. Met with President Bush in Washington and Camp David. Visited Boston and Los Angeles. Met with German President Johannes Rau. Met with President Jacques Chirac. 14-19 July Met with President Zine El Abidine . Met with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Met with King Mohammed VI. 14-18 October Attended "10th OIC Summit". Met with President Putin. 24-26 September Attended "UNGA Session". Met with POTUS and UNSG . Met with PM Jean Chrétien. 1-7 November Met with President Hu Jintao. Attended "Boao Forum for Asia". Met with President Roh Moo-hyun.
2004 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 20-24 January Met with President Ahmet Necdet Sezer. Attended "World Economic Forum Conference". 6-7 March Met with King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah. Also performed Umrah. 4-8 July Met with PM Göran Persson. Met with President Tarja Halonen. 8-10 July Met with President Ilham Aliyev. 21-30 September Attended "UNGA Session". Met with POTUS and UNSG . Met with Deputy Prime Minister Gerrit Zalm. Met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Pope John Paul II. 6 November Met with President Hamid Karzai. 26 November - 9 December Stopover. Met with President Ahmet Necdet Sezer. Stopover. Met with PM Driss Jettou. Stopover. Met with President Abdoulaye Wade . Met with President Luiz Inácio Lula in Brasília. Visited Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Met with President Néstor Kirchner. Met with President Vicente Fox. Met with President Bush. Met with PM Tony Blair. Met with President Jacques Chirac.
2005 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 5-8 March Unofficial visit. Visited grave of Ex-Lebanonise PM Rafic Hariri. Met with his family to condole his death. Met with President Islam Karimov. Met with President Askar Akayev. 16-24 April Met with PM Manmohan Singh. Visited Mu'in al-Din Chishti shrine. Watched 6th ODI of Pakistani team in India in 2004–05. Met with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Attended "50th anniversary of Afro-Asian Conference". Met with President Susilo Bambang. 4-6 June Met with President Khalifa bin Zayed . Met with Emir of Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa . 13-19 June Met with Prime Minister John Howard in Canberra. Also visited Sydney. Met with Prime Minister Helen Clark. Met with Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. 25-26 June Met with Crown Prince Abdullah. Performed Umrah and visited Prophet's Mosque. 14-17 September Addressed "2005 World Summit". Met with PM Manmohan Singh, also met Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon (informally). Held dinner meeting with members of American Jewish Congress. 3-8 December Met with Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad. Met with President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Attended "3rd Extraordinary OIC Summit".
2006 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 22-29 January Met with Vice President of UAE to condole over death of Ex-PM Maktoum bin Rashid. Met with Harald V and PM Jens Stoltenberg. Attended "World Economic Forum Conference". 19-23 February Met with President Hu Jintao, signed multiple agreements, visited Sichuan. 18 April Met with Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. Watched 1st ODI of 2005–06 DLF Cup. 15-17 June Attended "6th SCO Head of State Summit". Met with President Hu and Putin. Attended "2nd CICA Summit". 6-7 September Met with President Hamid Karzai, held talks about Al-Qaeda and Taliban. 11-29 September Met with PM of Belgium, Pres. of the European Commission , Pres. of the European Parliament and others. Attended "14th NAM Summit". Met with Indian PM Manmohan Singh. Attended "UNGA Session". Met with President Bush and Karzai. Met with British PM Tony Blair.
2007 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 20-24 January Met with King Abdullah. Met with President Hosni Mubarak. Met with Abdullah II. Met with President Bashar al-Assad. Met with President Khalifa bin Zayed . 30-31 January Met with President Susilo Bambang. Met with PM Abdullah Ahmad. 5-6 February Met with Supreme Leader and President of Iran. Met with President Ahmet Necdet Sezer. 22-30 April Met with President Lech Kaczyński and PM Jarosław Kaczyński. Met with PM José Luis. Met with Chairman of Presidency Nebojša Radmanović. Attended "Afghan-Pak-Turk Trilateral Summit". 27-28 July Met with Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohamed bin Zayed . Held secret meeting with People's Party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto. Met with King Abdullah and performed Umrah. 20 November Met with King Abdullah.
2008 Country Dates Engagements Ref. 20-28 January Met with PM of Belgium Guy Verhofstadt, also met Javier Solana. Addressed Pakistani community. Met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Attended "World Economic Forum Conference". Met with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. 10-15 April Attended "Boao Forum for Asia". Met with President Jintao and Premier Jiabao, also visited Ürümqi.
Asif Ali Zardari President: 9 September 2008 - 9 September 2013
2008 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 14-16 September Met with British PM Gordon Brown. 23 September Attended "UNGA session" and met President Bush. 14-17 October Met with Chinese President Hu Jintao. 4-5 November Met with King Abdullah. 12-14 November Attended "UNGA Session on Culture and Peace". 24-25 November Met with President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan . 4-6 December Attended "2nd Afghan-Pak-Turk Trilateral Summit".
2009 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 6-7 January Held meeting with President Hamid Karzai. 20-23 February Met with State Councilor of China Dai Bingguo. 10-11 March Attended 10th ECO Summit. Met with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. 31 March -1 April Attended "3rd Afghan-Pak-Turk Trilateral Summit". 15-17 April Attended Friends of Democratic Pakistan conference. Met Emperor Akihito and PM Tarō Asō. 17-19 April Attended "Boao Forum for Asia". 30 April - 2 May Met with Leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi. 5-8 May Held trilateral meeting with Presidents of USA and Afghanistan. 13-14 May Met with PM Gordon Brown. 15-18 May Met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Signed France–Pakistan Nuclear Deal 24 May Attended "Afghanistan-Iran-Pakistan Trilateral Summit". 15-16 June Attended "9th SCO Head of State Summit". Met with Presidents of Afghanistan and Russia (trilaterally) and PM of India. 16-19 June Attended "1st Pak-EU Summit". Addressed North Atlantic Council. 28-30 July Attended "1st Afghan-Pak-Rus-Tajik Quadrilateral Summit". 21-25 August Visited China's two Economic Development Models Zhejiang and Guangdong. Met with FM Yang Jiechi. 26-28 August Discussed shared threat of terrorism with PM Brown. Met with MQM leader Altaf Hussain. 24-25 September Attended "UNGA Session" and "FDP Summit". 28-30 September Met with PM of Italy Silvio Berlusconi and Pope Benedict XVI.
2010 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 8-9 January Met with President Bashar al-Assad. 24-26 January Attended "4th Afghan-Pak-Turk Trilateral Summit" and "Istanbul Summit on Friendship and Cooperation in the Heart of Asia". 10-11 June Attended "10th SCO Head of State Summit". Met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. 6-11 July Met with President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao. Visited pavilions at Expo 2010. 1-3 August Held 45 minutes meeting with French President, talked about Pakistan's role against terrorism. 3-8 August Considered as a controversial visit. Met with PM David Cameron. 9 August Stopover. Met with President Bashar al-Assad. 18 August Attended "2nd Afghan-Pak-Rus-Tajik Quadrilateral Summit". 11-13 November Met with Premier of China. Attended the "Opening Ceremony of 16th Asian Games". 27-30 November Met with President Mahinda Rajapaksa. 22-24 December Attended "11th ECO Summit" and "5th Afghan-Pak-Turk Trilateral Summit".
2011 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 14 January Met with President Obama. Attended the Memorial Service of Richard Holbrooke. 17-18 January Attended "4th World Future Energy Summit". Met with UN Secretary-General and PM of UAE. 21-23 February Met with Prime Minister Naoto Kan. 11-14 April Held meeting with President and Prime Minister of Turkey. 7-8 May Met with Emir of Kuwait Sabah Al-Ahmad. 11-13 May Held meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev. 14-15 June Attended "11th SCO Head of State Summit". 25-26 June Attended "Global Fight Against Terrorism Summit". Met with Ayatollah Khamenei. 16 July Met with Supreme Leader and President of Iran. 20-21 July Met with King Abdullah. 17 August Met with King Hamad bin Isa. 30 August - 1 September Participated in 1st China-Eurasia Expo. Met with Vice Premier of China. 1-2 September Attended "3rd Afghan-Pak-Rus-Tajik Quadrilateral Summit". 21-23 October Attended "WEF meeting on Economic Growth and Job Creation in Arab World". Met with Abdullah II. 25 October Attended the funeral of Sultan bin Abdulaziz. Met with Nayef bin Abdulaziz to condole his death. 31 October - 1 November Attended "6th Afghan-Pak-Turk Trilateral Summit".
2012 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 24-25 January Met with President Thein Sein and Suu Kyi. 24-26 March Attended " Afghan-Iran-Pak-Turk Quadrilateral Summit", "RECCA V Summit" and "Nawroz Festival". 8 April Met with PM Manmohan Singh. Visited Shrine of Mu'in al-Din Chishti in Ajmer. 19-21 May Attended "2012 Chicago NATO Summit". Met with President Obama, Karzai and US SecState , Hillary Clinton. 5-7 June Attended "2012 Beijing SCO Summit". Met with President of China. 27-30 June Attended "Graduation ceremony of Bakhtawar Bhutto". Met with First Secretary of State William Hague, also met Altaf Hussain. 13-15 August Attended "4th Extraordinary OIC Summit". 29-31 August Attended "16th NAM Summit ". Met with Iran's Supreme Leader and PM of India. 24-25 September Attended "UNGA Session". Met with Hillary Clinton. 15-16 October Attended "12th ECO Summit". Met with President of Azerbaijan. 6-7 November Met with Emir of Qatar. 3-5 December Met with President Lee Myung-bak. 9-11 December President Zardari and DG UNESCO hosted the event "Stand up for Malala – Stand up for girls' right to education". Zardari also met President of France. 11-13 December Attended "7th Afghan-Pak-Turk Trilateral Summit".
2013 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 27-28 February Met with Supreme Leader and President of Iran. Negotiated about IP Gas project. 11 March Inaugurated the construction of IP Gas project with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. 3-4 August Attended "First inauguration of Hassan Rouhani" and met him.
Mamnoon Hussain President: 9 September 2013 - 9 September 2018
2013 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 9-15 December Attended the funeral of Nelson Mandela.
2014 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 18-21 February Met with President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang and Zhang Dejiang. 27 March Attended "Nawroz Festival" and met President Hamid Karzai. 20-22 May Attended the "4th CICA Summit" and met President Xi. 9-12 June Met with President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan. 28-29 August Attended the "Inaugural Ceremony of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan". 29 September Attended the "Inauguration Ceremony on President Ashraf Ghani" and met him.
2015 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 11-14 March Met with President Ilham Aliyev. 22-26 April Met with President of Turkey Erdoğan. 15-25 June Met King Salman and performed Umrah.
2016 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 6-7 March Attended the 5th Extraordinary OIC Summit. Met with President Joko Widodo. 8 March Met with President of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena. 13-15 April Attended "13th OIC Summit". Also met President of Turkey and Belarus, PM of Niger and Chief Executive of Afghanistan. 22-24 June Attended the "16th SCO Head of States Summit". Held meeting with President of Uzbekistan. 22-25 October Met with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani .
2017 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 7-18 June Met King Salman and performed Umrah. 9-12 September Attended the OIC Science and Technology Summit and Expo 2017. 16-18 September Attended the Opening Ceremony of "5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games". Also met President of Turkmenistan.
2018 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 8-10 June Attended "2018 Qingdao SCO summit". Met with President Xi, also met Indian PM Modi (informally). 19-22 June Attended "International Decade for Action-Water for Sustainable Development 2018-28" conference. Also met President of Tajikistan. 8-10 July Attended the "2nd Inaugural Ceremony of President Erdoğan". 26-27 August Unofficial tour. Visited Kulsoom Nawaz in Hospital in London. Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh had awarded honorary degree to President Mamnoon.
Arif Alvi President: 9 September 2018 - 10 March 2024
2018 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 28-30 October Met with President of Turkey and Kyrgyzstan. Attended inauguration of Istanbul Airport and reception on 95th Republic Day of Turkey. 9-15 December Met With King Salman Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud.
2019 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 20-24 October Met with PM Shinzo Abe and attended the "Enthronement Ceremony of Emperor Naruhito". 25-26 October Attended 18th NAM Summit and met with President Ilham Aliyev
2020 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 16-17 March President Arif met with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. 5 October Met with Emir of Kuwait Nawaf Al-Ahmad, condoles over death of Sabah Al-Ahmad.
2021 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 14-16 August President Arif Alvi met with President of Turkey. 9-10 October President Arif Alvi inaugurates Pakistan Pavilion at Expo 2020. Met with Prime Minister of UAE Mohammed bin Rashid . 27-28 November Attended "15th ECO Summit". Met with Presidents of Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Iran.
2023 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 25 June - 4 July Alvi performed Hajj. Informally met with Crown Prince MBS and President of Bangladesh.
Asif Ali Zardari President: 10 March 2024 - present
2024 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 10-11 October Attended "Interrelation of Times and Civilization - Basis of Peace and Development" Forum Dedicated to 300th anniversary of Magtymguly Pyragy. Met President Berdimuhamedow, also met Putin (informally).
2025 Country Date/s Engagements Ref. 4-8 February Zardari met President Xi Jinping. Attended the "Opening Ceremony of 9th Asian Winter Games". 10 February Stopover. Met with President Erdoğan. 10-11 February Met with Aga Khan V, condoles over death of Aga Khan IV. Also met President of Portugal. 12-21 September Met with Party Secretary of Xinjiang, Chen Xiaojiang, visited Chengdu, Shanghai, Ürümqi and Kashgar. 3-6 November Attended Second World Summit for Social Development. Met with Emir of Qatar and President of Iraq.
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