Pakistan and Uzbekistan to boost defence cooperation

[Owais]

Pakistan and Uzbekistan to boost defence cooperation


TASHKENT (July 06 2008): Pakistan and Uzbekistan have underscored the need for further increasing cooperation in areas of mutual interest particularly defence collaboration, said an ISPR release.

Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, General Tariq Majid, who is currently on four-day visit of Republic of Uzbekistan, called on Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Prime Minister of Uzbekistan and exchanged views on matters of bilateral cooperation and other areas of specific interest, the statement said.

Uzbek Premier expressed hope that visit by Pakistan's senior military leadership will pave the way for further strengthening military to military relationship between both the countries. Uzbekistan appreciates Pakistan's efforts in fighting extremism/terrorism and is interested in benefiting from the experiences of the Armed Forces of Pakistan, he added.

The meeting also stressed the need for increasing cooperation in the areas of defence production. General Tariq said that Pakistan values its brotherly ties with Uzbekistan as we are facing common challenges and share similarity of views on security and stability in the region.

"Our relations are based on mutual respect and trust. We need to adopt a collaborative and integrated approach to bring peace and stability to the region", he added. Earlier, in the day, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee called on Ruslan Mirzayev, Defence Minister of Uzbekistan at Ministry of Defence.

The meeting with the Uzbek Defence Minister reflected the warmth and friendship between Pakistan and Uzbekistan. It dwelt upon enhancing mutual cooperation between the two brotherly countries, which shared a common view on international and regional issues.

The main focus of the discussion was aimed at measures for enhancing defence industry and military to military cooperation amongst the two brotherly countries. Later, both sides signed an agreement on military training and measures to enhance military to military cooperation including exchange of expert delegations from both sides to identify specific areas of cooperation.



Business Recorder [Pakistan's First Financial Daily]

 

[JK!]

Heres to hoping they provide support for dealing with their erstwhile country men wreaking havoc in FATA.

 

[IceCold]

Heres to hoping they provide support for dealing with their erstwhile country men wreaking havoc in FATA.

Well said. It is a very important issue that we need to raise with Uzbekistan, because their people are heavily involved into terrorism in Pakistan. They certainly need to put a hold on to that.

 

[maqsad]

Are the Uzbek insurgents in Pakistan even straight from Uzbekistan, directly? I ask this because there are a lot of Uzbeks and Turkmenis in Afghanistan itself, most of them were refugees from the old USSR. Now why would an Uzbek leave the comfy life in USSR and settle in Afghanistan? Well the USSR was a communist state which valued atheism and science over religion so if someone fell out with the USSR then they were most likely the most fanatic and devout of muslims at the time. So I am thinking that the Uzbeks who live in Afghanistan would be radically different in mentality and religious conviction than the Uzbeks from Uzbekistan, especially after decades and decades of communist atheistic education and indoctrination.

So in short I suspect these Uzbeks are Afghan! They probably have next to nothing to do with Uzbekistan by now except the language they speak. Of course I could be wrong and Uzbekistan could also be undergoing a religious revival like Turkey is.