{"id":1770,"date":"2024-03-24T18:38:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T18:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2024-03-25T17:42:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T17:42:58","slug":"saudi-defence-minister-awarded-pakistans-highest-civilian-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/saudi-defence-minister-awarded-pakistans-highest-civilian-honour\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi defence minister awarded Pakistan\u2019s highest civilian honour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has conferred the country\u2019s highest civilian award, the Nishan-e-Pakistan on Saudi Arabian Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman yesterday. It is awarded to \u201cthose who have rendered services of highest distinction\u201d to the national interest of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Saudi royal earlier that day had attended a Pakistani military parade as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2481521\/saudi-arabia\">guest of honour<\/a>, commemorating the 84th anniversary of Pakistan\u2019s republic day. Pakistan Day is celebrated annually in recognition of the adoption of the Lahore Resolution by the Muslim League, which called for the creation of an independent state for the Muslims of India on 23 March, 1940.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Islamabad: President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif and Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee along with Tri-Services Chiefs at Pakistan Day Parade.<br \/>Defence Minister of Saudi Arabia, H.R.H Prince Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/47N3lWsSdA\">pic.twitter.com\/47N3lWsSdA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; APP \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf0 (@appcsocialmedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/appcsocialmedia\/status\/1771555422207442956?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A separate award ceremony was held at the Presidency, which was also attended by Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif as well as federal ministers, top military leaders and members of the diplomatic corps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe award was conferred in recognition of Prince Khalid bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud\u2019s meritorious services for Pakistan and its people, enhancing defence cooperation, strengthening of bilateral ties and contributions towards peace efforts in the region,\u201d state-run\u00a0<i>APP<\/i>\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VIDEO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VIDEO<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Saudi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Saudi<\/a> Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kbsalsaud?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kbsalsaud<\/a>) was honored with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pakistan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Pakistan<\/a>&#39;s highest civilian award, \u201cNishan-e-Pakistan\u201d by President Asif Ali Zardari, during his official visit to Islamabad. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aLWCMPMXm2\">pic.twitter.com\/aLWCMPMXm2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Saudi Gazette (@Saudi_Gazette) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Saudi_Gazette\/status\/1771581600884539730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bin Salman also held talks with Sharif on regional matters and defence ties. Pakistan\u2019s Minister for Defence Khawaja Asif and Chief of Army Staff General Syed Asim Munir also attended the meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An official statement\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2481926\/world\">said<\/a>\u00a0\u201cThe meeting exchanged views on regional peace and security.\u201d \u201cDiscussion also took place on increasing cooperation in the defense and security sectors between the two countries,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"8c0C-tgn9D8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Zardari Awarded Nishan-e-Pakistan To Saudi Defense Minister - 24 News HD\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8c0C-tgn9D8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSaudi Arabia has stood by Pakistan on every front,\u201d Sharif was quoted as saying in the statement. \u201cDuring my previous term as prime minister, Saudi Arabia played a key role in improving Pakistan\u2019s economic situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For his part, the Saudi defence minister said \u201cSaudi Arabia and Pakistan have historical and strong brotherly relations, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have always been well-wishers of each other.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has conferred the country\u2019s highest civilian award, the Nishan-e-Pakistan on Saudi Arabian Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman yesterday. It is awarded to \u201cthose who have rendered services of highest distinction\u201d to the national interest of Pakistan. The Saudi royal earlier that day had attended a Pakistani military parade as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,41,1,66],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-asia-americas","8":"category-middle-east","9":"category-uncategorized","10":"category-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1772,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions\/1772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}