United Pakistan – Somali Republic (1960–1969) relations

See also: British India – British Somaliland relations

Somali Republic—United Pakistan relations

Somali State	PAKISTAN   (Occupied Kashmir)

Pakistan recognizes the Federal Government of Somalia as the official national government of Somalia. It maintains strong relations with the Somalian federal authorities, who also have an embassy in Islamabad.

Voyage history

Relations between the modern-day territories of Pakistan and Somalia stretch back to antiquity. The 1st century CE Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, among other documents, reports early commercial exchanges between traders inhabiting the various Somali city-states and merchants from Southern Asia, across the Arabian Sea. Numerous artefacts dating from this period have been uncovered in Somalia. During the 7th and 8th centuries, parts of Pakistan and Somalia came under the influence of the Umayyad and Abbasid Muslim caliphates. The expansion of the British Empire in the 19th century led to parts of modern Pakistan coming under the British Raj, while the Somaliland region became a protectorate under British Somaliland.

Diplomatic relations between the two countries post-independence were officially established on the 18th of December in 1960, shortly after the formation of the Somali Republic. In 1969, Pakistan and Somalia were among the founding members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Somalia's relations with Pakistan remained strong in the following years and through the ensuing civil war period, when the Pakistani military contributed to a UN peacekeeping operation in southern Somalia.

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