The foreign ministers will prepare the ground for a summit of their leaders to be hosted in Saudi Arabia by King Abdullah at a later date, Pakistan foreign office spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said.

"The meeting here will consider the Palestinian crisis, the situation in Iraq and the Iran-US tensions," Aslam said.

The meeting follows a recent diplomatic shuttle around the Islamic world by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, a key US ally, who is warning that the unrest in the Middle East could spread worldwide.

Indonesian Foreign Minister Hasan Wirayuda had already arrived while his counterparts from Egypt, Jordan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, were due late in the evening, a government official said.