‘ASEAN transformed into vibrant body’
July 4, 2021
Islamabad: Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood has said that Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has transformed into a vibrant 10-member body, an increasingly integrated economic community and a central pillar of regional architecture.
Sohail Mahmood said that Pakistan needs to prioritise five areas of cooperation with ASEAN; strengthening of Pak-ASEAN connectivity, support for the business communities to comprehensively upgrade economic cooperation with ASEAN countries, focus on tourism, explore avenues of cooperation in Science & Technology, IT and higher education and lastly deepen our cultural exchanges.
Sohail Mahmood was speaking as chief guest at the Pakistan-ASEAN Experts Dialogue on Pakistan-ASEAN: shared future and the way forward organised here by the Centre for Strategic Perspectives (CSP) at Institute of Strategic Studies in collaboration with the Indonesian Embassy and the ASEAN Committee in Islamab
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Pakistan to back intra-Afghan talks’ outcome: SAPM
Dr Moeed Yusuf says ‘our region has been misused by global powers for long’
Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on National Security and Strategic Policy Planning Dr Moeed Yousuf. PHOTO COURTESY: USIP
Pakistan has assured a visiting Afghan delegation that Islamabad would support whatever governance set-up emerged in the aftermath of the intra-Afghan dialogue currently under way between the Taliban and the government in Kabul in the Qatari capital.
Dr Moeed Yusuf, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on National Security, suggested that the Track-II process between Pakistan and Afghanistan should complement Track-I process and assist it by providing the government with targeted policy proposals.
Islamabad
December 23, 2020
Islamabad : There is certainly a positive trajectory with regards to Pakistan-Afghanistan bilateral relations. In the last few months, both sides have achieved significant progress, though there is a lot still to be done. For the first time, the parliaments on both sides are playing a very active role in addressing issues of mutual interest. Complex issues accumulating over years would take some time for resolution, said Ambassador Muhammad Sadiq, Prime Minister’s Special Representative for Afghanistan.
He was speaking to the 7th Pakistan Afghanistan Joint Committee (PAJC) meeting, spearheaded by Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) and Organisation for Economic Studies and Peace (OESP).