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Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Bosnia and Herzegovina–Pakistan relations are the foreign relations between Pakistan and Bosnia. Pakistan and Bosnia and Herzegovina have close, cordial and fraternal ties.[1] Pakistan recognised the independence of Bosnia from Yugoslavia in 1992, and Pakistan and Bosnia established diplomatic relations in 1995 and have embassies in each other's capitals. 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.
Pakistan and Bosnia have a free trade agreement. 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. 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]
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 in Serbian concentration camps.[3]
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