The emergence and development of contemporary Iranian-Pakistani relations 1947-2010, a historical study

Abstract

This research attempts to clarify the contemporary historical course of bilateral relations between Iran and Pakistan through the nature, pattern and positions of those relations in different stages from 1947 to 2010, as both countries are geographically contiguous and are linked culturally and religiously. They have links in the field of political and economic relations that have drawn the strategy of their contemporary bilateral relations in light of the development of events in the regional arena and their effects on their relations, including the Soviet occupation of Afghan lands. Which coincided with the revolution in Iran in the same year, the Iran-Iraq war, and then internal developments in Afghanistan, especially after the arrival of the hard-line groups represented by the Taliban, which brought Iran and Pakistan into a new era of mutual power, friendly and interests-based relations in the coming decades, especially in the field of cooperation. Security areas to ward off the dangers of terrorism to eliminate the Taliban and strengthen economic cooperation in various fields, even at the level of cooperation in the nuclear field.