Greece–Pakistan relations

Pakistani-Greek relations are foreign relations between Pakistan and Greece. Pakistan's first embassy in Athens was opened in 1975. Greece established an embassy in Islamabad in 1987.

Pakistani-Greek relations

Greece
Pakistan

History

Ancient Time

Ctesias in his work Indika (Greek: Ινδικά), records the beliefs and view of the Persians about India.

The Greek explorer Scylax, in about 515 BCE, was sent by King Darius I of Persia to follow the course of the Indus River and discover where it led.

Later, Alexander the Great of Macedon ruled and crossed areas of the ancient Indus Valley in Pakistan. The Greeks referred to the ancient people there as the Indoi (Ινδοί), (people of the Indus Valley). This is proven in the Achaemenid inscriptions at Persepolis and Greek texts like those of Herodotus. Alexander's soldiers who remained residing in those areas hundreds of years ago.

Modern Time
Pakistani migrant children pose for a ceremony in Athens, Greece.
Javied Aslam Arain, President of the Pakistani Community of Greece, staging a protest with Pakistani migrants.

Part of today's Pakistan became the Indo-Greek kingdoms, founded by the successor of Alexander the Great.

Additionally, there are around 32,500 Pakistanis settled in Greece.[1][2]

Greece supports a successful outcome of the bilateral Indo-Pakistani dialogue and a peaceful resolution of the differences between the two countries, including the dispute over Kashmir.[3]

See also

References
  1. Pakistan's Greek Tragedy
  2. Greece's Pakistani Immigrants Are Hopeful
  3. http://www.mfa.gr/en/blog/greece-bilateral-relations/pakistan/
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