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Foreign Policy of Pakistan

The document summarizes the key objectives and factors shaping Pakistan's foreign policy over time. It discusses how Pakistan's foreign policy has emphasized principles of peace, cooperation and support for oppressed peoples. The summary also outlines how Pakistan's foreign policy has been influenced by its ideological foundations, geographical location, economic interests, and relationships with neighbors like India, China and other Muslim-majority states. More recently, Pakistan's foreign policy has focused on issues like economic development, democracy, human rights, and disaster relief in Kashmir.
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Foreign Policy of Pakistan

The document summarizes the key objectives and factors shaping Pakistan's foreign policy over time. It discusses how Pakistan's foreign policy has emphasized principles of peace, cooperation and support for oppressed peoples. The summary also outlines how Pakistan's foreign policy has been influenced by its ideological foundations, geographical location, economic interests, and relationships with neighbors like India, China and other Muslim-majority states. More recently, Pakistan's foreign policy has focused on issues like economic development, democracy, human rights, and disaster relief in Kashmir.
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Foreign Policy of

Pakistan
Foreign Policy
Objectives
Foreign Policy of Pakistan
Factors
Foreign Policy after 2005
Defination
• Foreign policy reflects the principles and
purpose pf a state.
• There is no unanimity amongst scholars
regarding the meaning of foreign policy.
• They agree that the foreign policy is concerned
with the behavior of a state towards other
states.
Objectives of foreign policy of a
country
• To protect the territorial integrity of state.
• To maintain links with other states.
• To strengthen economic ties of various nature
with other states.
• Technology leaves impact on foreign policy.
• The nature of political accountability
prevailing in a system also greatly influence
the foreign policy of the state.
Objectives…….
• leadership.
• National capacity of a state.
• Social structure of a society.
• Public opinion.
• Press
• Alliances concluded by various states.
• World public opinion.
Pakistan’s Foreign Policy
• Quaid-e-Azam has defined the fundamental principles
of our foreign policy in the following words:
• “our foreign policy in one of friendliness and good will
towards all the nations of the world. We do not cherish
aggressive designs against and country or nation. We
believe in the policy of honest and fair play in national
and international dealings and are prepared to make our
utmost contribution to the promotion of peace and
prosperity among the nations of the world. Pakistan
will never be found lacking in extending its material
and moral support to the oppressed and suppressed
people of the world and in upholding the principles of
United Nations Charter.”
Continue……..
• The guiding principles of Pakistan’s
foreign policy are firmly based in country’s
Islamic ideology.
• Pakistan openly corroborates the non-use
of force in international relations as well as
the established behavioral standards of
honorable neighborliness, peaceful co-
existence and amicable collaboration for
mutual gains.
Factors
• Ideological obligation.
• Historical ligancy.
• Geographical location.
• The Indian threat.
• Economic compulsion.
Foreign Policy By Z.A Bhutto
• Pakistan’s image had been
badly tarnished due to its defeat
in the BD war in 1971, when Mr.
Bhutto took over the reins of the
country.
• Bhutto embarked upon the tour
of friendly 22 Muslim countries.
• visited China and former USSR
which were of great importance.
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• The second summit conference of the OIC
held at Lahore in Feb., 1974, it was a
great achievement under the leadership of
Mr. Bhutto.
• At the end of the summit a joint
communiqué known as “Lahore
Declaration” was issued.
Foreign Policy 2005
• Year 2005 proved to be an exceptionally
eventful year for Pakistan's foreign policy
interest.
• General Musharaf managed to secure
almost $6bn of aid for Kashmir quake
relief.
• Foreign office waltzed through such a wide
range of diverse interest in a scope of one
year remarkably.
Managing ‘K’
• India’s rigid stance on Kashmir did not
prevent Pakistan from proposing some
ideas for resolution of the conflict that has
ridden both countries since their inception.
• Resumption of historic srinagar-
muzaffarabad bus service in April,
followed by October’s decision to open the
Loc at five points indicate two important
realities.
Continue………
• 1. there are several ways to move things
on the disputed ground but force will no
longer be one of them;
• 2. both government have finally conceded
”through factors and actors” to place the
Kashmiri people and their betterment at
the center of any decision they take with
respect to the region.
Friends For Profit
• Pakistan is putting aside political
emotionalism and giving a lead to
pragmatic business sense in its relations
with problematic neighbors like India and
Afghanistan.
• 2005 saw formidable face-off between the
Iran and the US on the former’s nuclear
program.
Continue……
• Constitution of an India-Pakistan
committee last year to look at the various
issues involved with the project and its
three subsequent meetings , as well as the
trilateral meeting between the three
governments scheduled for early this year
shows that parallel t global tensions, they
are not prepared to loose sight of mutual
economic gains.
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• Year 2005 will particularly be remembered
for the build up to the Istanbul meeting in
August and its exciting fallout.
• The reassurance not t establish formal
diplomatic ties until the resolution of the
Palestine-Israel conflict was a successful
balancing act vis-à-vis the Arab world.
Armed For peace
• Making peace with old foe topped
Pakistan's foreign policy agenda last year,
but so did arms procurement.
• In march, Pakistan got confirmation of the
coveted F-16 deal from the US, signing
the country’s eagerness to do business
with Islamabad beyond the war of terror.
Continue…….
• The October agreement between India
and Pakistan to notify each other before
ballistic missile test firing clearly pointed to
the reality that Pakistan intends not only to
maintain its current military profile “nuclear
and conventional” but also upgrade it,
even as it make friends.
The Development Agenda
• 2005 also saw Islamabad delving deep to
understand and face the challenging
international language and politics of
democracy, poverty, human rights and
gender by governments and institutions
that wield pressure on Islamabad to get its
acts together on al these fronts.
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• The hectic quake diplomacy following the
October 8 disaster was a new front for
Pakistan which is established for itself
successfully. Apart from receiving massive
aid, the interests of governments and IFLs
to reconstruct the quake hit region carries
tremendous scope for economic
development and political re-structuring of
Kashmir.
China and Pakistan
• China was rapidly emerging as a mighty power and it
was no longer possible and advisable for Pakistan to
ignore a mighty neighbor.
• According to Ayub khan,
• “ if we would not establish Normal relations with all three
big neighbors, the best thing was to have an understanding
with two f them. It was on this basis that I set out to
normalize our relations with people’s republic of china and
the soviet union. It is in this case that our geographical
location and the political compulsions inherent therein
have determined the course of our foreign policy in recent
years.”
Continue……..
• Ayub khan paid a visit to china in 1964
which gave a boost to normalizing
relations between china and Pakistan.
• China extended substantial aid to Pakistan
for the development of its industrial base.
• In 1970, china gave assistance to develop
mining, transport and industry in Pakistan.
Pakistan China partnership
• Pakistan china partnership and friendship
is more than 50 years old, and is based on
trust, understanding and mutual respect.
• Pakistan has announced market economy
status (MES) to china. China will provide
500 million dollars for investment in
Pakistan. Pakistan believes in productive
economic co-operation than assistance.
Third state visit of President Pervez
Musharaf
• President Musharaf interacted with a number of
think-tanks, leading business people, executive
officers and made an address to the Chinese
federation of commerce and Pakistan-china
business forum.
• Defense and strategic co-operation, which are the
typical standpoints between the two countries,
drew the attention of the two leaders.

• XEESHAN MOHSIN

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