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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Pakistan)

Runs the diplomatic relations of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan with other countries

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ4294393 ↗
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (abbreviated as MoFA; Urdu: وزارتِ خارجہ, romanized: Wazārat-ē-Xārjā) is a ministry of the Government of Pakistan tasked in managing Pakistan's diplomatic and consular relations as well as its foreign policy. Headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the ministry is also responsible for maintaining Pakistani governmental offices and missions abroad with diplomatic and consular status.

Minister

The Minister of Foreign Affairs is Cabinet member who responsible maintaining Pakistan's foreign policy as well as its diplomatic missions abroad. Muhammad Ishaq Dar is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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“Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Pakistan)” enters the record as runs the diplomatic relations of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan with other countries. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ministry, Foreign and Affairs can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Pakistan)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.