Under international sanctions, Muttaqi has been continuously subject to a travel ban, asset succumb to freezing, and an arms embargo.
In an explanation to the 15-member legislative committee designated for enforcing sanctions against the Taliban, Pakistan's UN mission said that Muttaqi needed to travel between May 6 and May 9 of this year "for an audience involving the foreign ministry representatives of the two nations and the People's Republic.
What the ministers would discuss was left out of the statement. According to the statement, Pakistan would pay for all expenses related to Muttaqi's journey.
The multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) infrastructure project, which is a part of the Belt and Road Initiative, is open to Taliban-led Afghanistan, according to statements made by Chinese and Pakistani authorities in the past.
In addition to having undeveloped natural riches worth billions of dollars, Afghanistan is strategically located on a major trade and transit corridor connecting South and Central Asia. In August 2021, when US-led forces began to withdraw from Afghanistan after 20 years of conflict, the Taliban took over.
The statement did not, however, include the visit's date.
"By the end of the current week, Maulvi Amir Khan Mutaqqi, the foreign minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is expected to travel to Islamabad. He will be in charge of a sizable political and commercial delegation, according to a statement from the foreign ministry.
Hafiz Zia Takkal, a deputy spokesperson for the Afghan foreign ministry, tweeted the statement in Pashto.
According to the statement, "the Afghan government wants to hold comprehensive bilateral talks on political, Pakistan-Afghanistan economic relations, regional stability, and transit."
Afghanistan will be represented by Muttaqi in a trilateral discussion with the foreign ministers of China and Pakistan. It will be the sixth such gathering of three countries.
Since the Taliban seized control of Kabul on August 15, 2021, this will be his second trip to Pakistan; his first trip to Islamabad was in November of that same year.
Pakistan hasn't made any remarks about the forthcoming visit as of yet.
What might be covered?
While the Afghan foreign ministry has listed a number of topics for discussion with Pakistan during the upcoming negotiations, there may be additional issues Pakistan wants to bring up.
One of these concerns is Pakistan's demand for Kabul to act against the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which Afghan authorities claim operates there, according to Pakistani officials. The Afghan Taliban government, however, disputes these claims.
A senior Pakistani delegation headed by Defence Minister Khawaja Asif visited Kabul in February to talk about the TTP situation.
Pakistan is also going to bring up the actions of the Mashhad group of the Islamic State in Afghanistan.
This group took ownership of the assault on Ubaidur Rehman Nizamani, the Pakistani charge d'affaires, in December of the year before.
The talks will probably also include trade relations and transit-related problems in addition to these security-related ones. The significance of these discussions was already emphasized in the statement from the Afghan foreign ministry.
Notably, exports from Afghanistan have surged under the Taliban administration, mostly as a result of the importation of coal and vegetables in the wake of last year's severe floods that ruined harvests.
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