In Pictures: Pakistan blooms as Prince William and Kate meet PM Imran Khan

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In Pictures: Pakistan blooms as Prince William and Kate meet PM Imran Khan

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ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate Middleton, today (Oct. 16) met Prime Minister Imran Khan at the PM House in Islamabad.

Prime Minister Imran Khan gracely welcomed the distinguished guests and hosted a lunch for them at Prime Minister House in Islamabad.

Dutch and Duchess of Cambridge also met the President of Pakistan Dr. Arif Ali and his wife.

The royal couple prior to meeting PM Imran, started their five-day tour of Pakistan by signaling their support for women‘s education by visiting a girls school in Islamabad.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were greeted with handshakes by a smiling Khan, who first met William when the prince was a young boy, on the steps at the Prime Minister’s House in the capital.

Kate wore a traditional Pakistani dress in vibrant green and white with a dark green dupatta, or long scarf, draped over her shoulder -- a change from earlier in the day, when she wore a royal blue shalwar kameez, traditional Pakistani long shirt with trousers.

But the Duke opted for Western attire again -- a dark suit and tie.

William and Kate spent roughly half an hour at the government-run school, which has an estimated 1,000 students from first to 12th grade, before they were waved off by smiling students.

A video tweeted by a British reporter accompanying the couple showed William smiling as he was told the girls were "big fans" of his mother, who died in a car crash in 1997.

"That’s very sweet of you," he could be heard saying in the video. "I was a big fan of my mother too."

Education official Khadija Bakhtiar told AFP that the couple helped some of the students solve problems.