15:54, 15 December 2009 | GMT +5
Kazakh-Pakistani relations considered in Islamabad
ASTANA. December 15. KAZINFORM the Issues of the Kazakh-Pakistani relations were considered in Islamabad on the eve of the Independence Day of Kazakhstan. Kazakh Ambassador in Islamabad Bakhytbek Shabarbayev held a meeting with Pakistani Additional Secretary for Afghanistan and Economic Cooperation Organization of the Foreign Ministry M. Haroon Shaukat; the Kazakh Embassy's press service reports.

There were studied issues of the Kazakh-Pakistani relations, the state and prospects of bilateral cooperation and interaction in the multilateral format. The mutual interest and readiness to take joint efforts on further strengthening cooperation in different fields were confirmed.
M. Haroon Shaukat got acquainted with implementation of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's Message to the Nation.
The Kazakh Ambassador informed of the country's chairmanship in the OSCE in the next yearn and invited Pakistan for interaction within the framework of the OIC in the context of Kazakhstan's chairmanship in it in 2011.
M. Haroon Shaukat expressed the best congratulations on the Independence Day, wishing success and welfare to the Kazakh people.