[166], Pakistan established diplomatic relations with San Marino on 12 April 2006. 0000000016 00000 n [179], Pakistan is not a member nor observer of the Arab League but the two entities share a strong relationship. Pakistan maintains an honorary consulate in Malawi. China has also publicly expressed concern over the increased level of kidnappings and killings of Chinese citizens by Pakistani militants. The Pakistani ambassador to Italy is accredited as a non-residential ambassador to San Marino. [124] It also supplies extensive financial aid to Pakistan and remittance from Pakistani migrants to Saudi Arabia is also a major source of foreign currency. 512, Boulevard de los Virreyes 1015 and can be contacted by telephone on (55) 5203-3636 as well as by email [email protected] and [email protected].The consular section shares location as well as telephone number and email address with the embassy [90] As of 2014 the Pakistani ambassador to Argentina, Imtiaz Ahmad was accredited to Uruguay. ", Jabeen, Mussarat, and Muhammad Saleem Mazhar. There are three major wars that have taken place between the two states, namely in 1947, 1965 and the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. China’s ambassador in Islamabad urged Pakistan to "take effective measures to protect all the Chinese in Pakistan" after militants shot and killed three Chinese nationals in July 2007. "For Pakistan," he said, "China is a high-value guarantor of security against India." [140] Pakistan ambassador to Russia is accredited as a non-residential ambassador to Belarus; however, Belarus maintains an embassy in Islamabad since 2014. [citation needed] It was readmitted to full membership of the Commonwealth in October 1989. [89], Pakistan has an honorary consulate in Montevideo. As this interactive timeline explains, Pakistan and China grew closer in the 1960s as Washington and Islamabad began to part ways over the handling of regional issues. Both are members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Commonwealth of Nations. [76], Pakistan maintains an embassy in Mexico City,[77] and Mexico is accredited to Pakistan through its embassy in Tehran. Although coronavirus cases in India, Pakistan, and across the region have not increased as quickly as some feared (so far), South Asia's economies are struggling deeply. Surinamese Islamic Association maintains its umberalla headquarters in Islamabad, Pakistan[87], Pakistan maintain a consulate general in North Trinidad. "Pak-Russia Relations: Lost Opportunities and Future Options. Esther Pan contributed to this Backgrounder. Pakistan was one of the first countries to recognize the People’s Republic of China in 1950 and remained a steadfast ally during Beijing’s period of international isolation in the 1960s and early 1970s. [25] A top-ranking Muslim League leader, Khaliquzzaman, declared that Pakistan would bring together all Muslim countries into Islamistan – a pan-Islamic entity. "Pakistan needs China more than China needs Pakistan," says Huang Jing, a China expert at the National University of Singapore. A comprehensive free trade agreement was signed in 2008, giving each country unprecedented market access to the other. [3] In September 2015, the Mexican Senate held a "Week of Pakistan" to celebrate 60 years of diplomatic relations between both nations. As CSIS’s Parker and Schaffer note, China has taken a more neutral position on India-Pakistan issues such as Kashmir in the past decade and a half, and has "begun to take the relationship with India more seriously." In 1971, Pakistan withdrew itself from the two alliances in a vision of exercising an independent foreign policy.