ISAS Insights

This paper focuses on the growing relationship between Pakistan and Bahrain. An analysis of this relationship shows that its key impetus was the visit of Bahrain's King Hamad to Pakistan in 2014.This led to the follow up visit of Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to Manama (Bahrain) in 2015. Bilateral political consultations took place in 2016. Bahrain's Minister of Foreign Affairs Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Mohammed Al Khalifa visited Pakistan from the 56 February 2017. There are four areas of interest that formulates relations between the two countries Trade, Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), Employment of Pakistani labour in Bahrain, as well as Defense and security cooperation.