NEW YORK: Pakistan has broken its diplomatic isolation through active diplomacy, with the country’s economy now set to take off as a result of the hard work done by Prime MInister Shehbaz Sharif’s government, Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar told members of the Pakistani community. “We are no longer isolated,” he said at his two-hour interaction with the Pakistani diaspora at the Pakistan consulate in New York.
Pakistan now has many friends in the international community, organised two major international events recently – the SCO Summit and the Conference on Girls’ Education in Muslim Communities, with several heads of state visiting the country – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan being the most recent to express solidarity with the country, Senator Dar added. He also highlighted Pakistan’s election to the UN Security Council, the world body’s power centre, with a thumping majority of 182 votes for a two-year term – 2025-26.
Present at the well-attended occasion were Ambassador Munir Akram, permanent representative of Pakistan to the United Nations, Ambassador to the United States Rizwan Saeed Sheikh, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, alternate permanent representative to the UN, and the Consul General in New York, Aamer Atozai.
