Pakistan will be incharge of the ECO secretariat. This is nice. A good ego booster if nothing else.
ECO member states are:
Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkemanistan and Uzbekistan.
"Pakistan’s Additional Foreign Secretary Khurshid Anwar has been appointed the new secretary-general of the 10-member Economic Cooperation Organisation.
The decision was taken at the 16th meeting of the Council of Ministers (COM) held on Thursday in Baku, Azerbaijan, ahead of the ninth ECO Summit.
Mr Anwar is a career diplomat and currently heads the ECO Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He will proceed to the ECO secretariat in Tehran in August to take over his new assignment.
He is the second Pakistani diplomat to get elected to this high profile position. The first was former foreign secretary Shamshad Ahmad, appointed 12 years ago.
In diplomatic circles, Mr Anwar is regarded as a competent and committed professional. He has served in Pakistan’s missions in important world capitals, including Amman, Cairo, Dhaka, London and Ottawa.
Mr Anwar joined the Foreign Service in 1978. He holds two masters degrees, one in International Relations from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston and the other in Political Science from the University of Peshawar."* http://dawn.com/2006/05/06/top12.htm
Pakistan has developed very close and increasingly strategic relations with energy-rich Azerbaidjan, and both countries have very close ties with Iran as well. On top of this Pakistan has a genuinely close relationship with Turkey, which in turn also has a close ethnic bond with Azerbaidjan, so ECO has been a very good international forum to bring us closer together with these Muslim countries.
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Don't burn up. Turkey helped Pakistan big time after the earthquake (as did Azerbaidjan and Iran) last year, and both nations are much closer as a result.
^^ no burning shurning. Just a dose of reality to all those eager to shout Muslim brother-hood-hood.
Iran dumped us as soon Nukie seat got hot under the Ayatullahs. Their fingures and behinds pointing straight to Qadeer Khan the hero.
Iranians sent our earth quake victims, canned food that expired 20 years ago. This is what we call brother-hood-hood.
Afghani Karazai is still makrooz for all the years he was fed and clothed in Pakistan. Still he f@rts and Pakistan every other day.
The whole Arab drama is squarely behind Bharat.
Sure people helped us after Earthquake. 70,000 dead was not something trivial. However non-Muslims especially Americans sent us "real" help in the form of heavy lift helicopters. And European sent us tonnes of other heavy lift equipment.
What do Mullahtics do? Start cartoonish riots in no time. This is what I call Mullahtic idiotic politiking.