FOCUS ON PAK-OMAN BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP
Pakistan Day is celebrated every year on March 23 to commemorate Pakistan Resolution passed at Lahore in 1940. Of all the days in a year, Pakistani nationals celebrate March 23 everywhere across the world, as being most significant part of their history. As their ambassador in the brotherly Sultanate of Oman said, I thus have the distinct honour and privilege to share a message in commemoration of the wonderful occasion of Pakistan Day.
I commence with thanking Allah for bestowing upon us the greatest blessing of a free and sovereign state we all cherish as our home. Our journey commenced two decades before Pakistan appeared on the map, with philosopher, ‘Poet of East’, Doctor Allama Iqbal presenting the concept of ‘Independent State’ in 1930.
The Pakistan Resolution of 1940 and seven-year-long ensuing journey to freedom and establishment of Pakistan as the first ‘Ideological State’ was led by the great leader Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
I avail this august opportunity to convey our best wishes and prayers for lasting health and happiness of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, conceived as the living beacon of peace and friendship in the region, convey our sentiments of love and affinity for our brotherly Omani people for continued progress and prosperity and convey heartiest felicitations to 262,000 Pakistanis across the Sultanate.
Pakistan today it ably guided by the vision for ‘Peaceful Neigh- bourhood’ as means to collective prosperity by the three-time Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif. The year 2017 is being seen as the best year for reaping economic and demographic gains since 1947, according to international commentator including
etc. In 2016, our Stock Market became fifth highest profit yielding in the world and first in all Asia.
The economic turnaround is further evidenced from the fact that Pak-Oman Investment Company, initiated in 2001 with $100m, has recorded best gains in 2016 and crossed the $400m in its worth.
It is among the top performing Joint Investment Companies set by Pakistan which shows strength of the bilateral ties.
Actual Pakistan-Oman relations are not measured through economic or trade, rather the human value. Both nations are bound in a unique blood-bond, long before dawn of Islam.
Our modern day relations are deeply embedded in commonality of strategic vision between our leaderships, parliaments, governments and the two peoples.
Both states are thus strategically placed, individually and in relation to each other.
Now, as the third generation of Pakistanis are born in Oman, I also acknowledge with appreciation the services rendered by the Pakistani community in building Omani society and the bridges of fraternity and trust between the two peoples. I particularly acknowledge their immense enthusiasm in commemorating Oman’s 46th National Day across the Sultanate through “7 city 7 day” celebrations.
I also wish to thank nearly 10,000 Pakistanis who joined Pakistan Embassy “WhatsApp’ initiative (+968-91980458) launched last month.
The recent exchanges of high level political and parliamentary exchanges and mutual cooperation at international forums have reinvigorated our ties and set them on a sustained rising trajectory.
As we look forward to building our bilateral relations further, let us pray that Allah grant us the continued wisdom and patronage of our leaderships and support of our two nations.
Pakistan Zindabad. PakistanOman Friendship Paendabad!