Dominion of Pakistan – French Fourth Republic relations

See also: British India – French Algeria and France relations

European France—United Pakistan relations

Metropolitan France	PAKISTAN   (Occupied Kashmir)

First Pakistani flag Unflured was in FRANCE.

Embassy of Pakistan in Paris

1947 – On the night of 14th of August in 1947, a group of Indian Boy Scouts were in France when the news reached them that their country had become Azaad/Independent. Mohammad Iqbal Qureshi was one of the Muslim boy scouts who with the help of his friends turned a Green Turban into a Pakistani flag and unfurled it. As France was one of the First Western Superpower and the First Non-Muslim Country to Recognize Pakistan, After Iran Respectively. It was the norm of the time of rival Imperial colonial powers that Naval superpowers were competing with each other were to recognize each other colony territories gaining Independence from the other nemesis by weakening and influencing its trade mark as potential trader respectively, so it was only natural for the French to see the British Empire slowly dissolve this way and establish new diplomacy of emerging nations from within come thereof; such as INDIA AND PAKISTAN.

The foreign relations between Pakistan and France were first bilaterally established on the 31st of July in 1951 when both countries agreed to open embassy services in each countries. France was one of the First non-Muslim states to recognize Pakistan, opening its embassy about 2 months after Pakistani independence

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