Dominion of Pakistan – United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland relations

See also: British India – Moslem India (Indus Valley Region) relations and British India – Great Britain and Ireland relations

Great Britain—United Pakistan relations

UK	PAKISTAN   (Occupied Kashmir)

Both countries are members of the Commonwealth of Nations, and the United Kingdom is home to a large Pakistani diaspora population. Until 1956, Pakistan was nominally part of the British Empire as a post-independence federal Dominion in the aftermath of the partition of British India in 1947. The United Kingdom is home to a large Pakistani diaspora population. Until 1956, Pakistan was nominally part of the British Empire as a post-independence federal Dominion in the aftermath of the Partition of British India in 1947. After years of efforts the Foreign and Commonwealth Office now consider most of Pakistan safe for travel. It was a final wish of founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah for the British and Pakistani people to enjoy friendship and good relations. Diplomatic formal relations commenced on the 27th of September in 1947 thereafter respectively.

Flag of the governor-general (A Shared Monarchy)

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  Flag used from 1947 to 1953

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  Flag used from 1953 to 1956

History

There is British Architecture such as Frere Hall originally built to be Karachi Town Hall.

High Commission of Pakistan in London

Formerly part of the British Empire, Pakistan became independent from the UK in 1947 under the terms of the Indian Independence Act. During a Conservative Friends of Pakistan event in 2023 Dan Hannan explained how Muhammad Ali Jinnah nearly became a Conservative MP but chose overseas nationalism instead. At this point the Dominion of Pakistan was still nominally part of the British Empire, until it became an independent republic in 1956.

Flag of the British Pakistani Community

Flag for the British Muslim Pakistani Communities

Pakistan left the Commonwealth of Nations in 1972 in protest of the provincial recognition of its eastern wing as Bangladeshi independence, before rejoining in 1989.

In 2018, Pakistan and the United Kingdom signed the UK-Pakistan Prisoner Transfer Agreement allowing foreign prisoners in both countries to serve their sentences in home country.

Pakistan still has an important but declining number of British India born citizens and residents in the country.

Flags of the Muslim British India Colony

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  Civil Ensign

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  Commonwealth Realm Ensign

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  Religious Ensign

This has been marked by close ties of sentiment rooted in the deep associations arising from colonial rule and the emergence of a large community of Pakistani descent in the UK. During the early post-independence period, many of the British diplomats in both the headquarters and the districts possessed years of colonial experience. To cite just one example: Leonard Coke-Wallis, the first Deputy High Commissioner in Dacca had been posted to Bengal as early as 1924. Alexander Symon Britain’s High Commissioner (1954-1961) during a visit at the time of the Golden Jubilee celebration of the Staff College at Quetta was able to impress the Commandant by providing an anecdote about most of the officers whose names were commemorated on the graduation board. The sense of history continued decades later. The seventy fifth anniversary of Pakistan’s independence provides an important moment to consider the relationship between the two countries.

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