Bosnia and Herzegovina–Pakistan relations

Pakistan-Bosnia and Herzegovina relations

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Bosnia and Herzegovina–Pakistan relations are the foreign relations between Pakistan and Bosnia. Pakistan recognised the independence of Bosnia from Yugoslavia in 1992, and the two established diplomatic relations.

Bosnian Independence War

Pakistan sent UN Peacekeeping forces to the former Yugoslavia during the Yugoslav wars. During the war, Pakistan supported Bosnia while providing technical and military support to Bosnia. Approximately 90,000 Pakistani people went to Bosnia during the Yugoslav wars, accounting for 20% of the volunteer military force.

Free Trade Agreement

The two countries have a free trade agreement and are currently negotiating Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA). The bilateral trade between the two countries currently stands at $301,000. Much of the trade between the two is routed through some third country making products like surgical instruments, textile products, rice and lumber much more expensive.[1]

Defense Cooperation

Pakistan has provided medium-tech to high tech weapons to the Bosnian Government in the past. Pakistan supports the aspiration causes of Sandžak Bosniaks as part of its geo-political understanding.Pakistan and Bosnia and Herzegovina signed MoU for defense cooperation in October 2012 during the visit of Bosnian President to Islamabad, the two countries vowed to boost their ties.[1]

Earthquake of 2005

Donations from Bosnian schoolchildren and the government funded the building of a school and health centre in Azad Jammu and Kashmir after the 2005 earthquake.[2]

Bosnian Refugees in Pakistan

Pakistan was the third Islamic country by numbers of Bosniak refugees, following Turkey and Jordan, during the Bosnian war.[3] In June 1993, at least 380 Bosnian refugees had arrived in Pakistan, almost 200 of them children.[3] Pakistan said at the time that it would accept some nine thousand additional refugees.[3] Many of the first 380 had been prisoners.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 http://dawn.com/2012/10/10/pakistan-bosnia-to-boost-defence-ties/
  2. ↑ "School, BHU built by Bosnia to open soon". Daily Times (Pakistan). 22 June 2008. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Rashid, Ahmed (26 June 1993). "Blonde Muslims find shelter in Pakistan: Refugees from Bosnia were given a warm welcome in a distant land, Ahmed Rashid writes from Islamabad". The Independent (London: Independent News and Media Limited). Retrieved 3 April 2010.

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