Islamabad, May 20 -- Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is set to undertake a three-day visit to China, starting May 23, Pakistan Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar announced, Pakistani media Dawn reported.

According to the Dawn, Ishaq Dar underscored that Pakistan and China were taking "another significant step towards innovation, digital connectivity and the economy of the future as our partnership enters a new phase in the digital age."He remarked that Pakistan-China friendship was "not ordinary diplomacy," per the report.

"It is a relationship tested by time and strengthened by trust from the Karakoram Highway, carved through some of the most difficult terrain in the world, to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor...