{"id":96374,"date":"2026-10-29T19:32:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=96374"},"modified":"2026-10-29T19:32:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:32:03","slug":"singapore-foreign-affairs-minister-vivian-balakrishnan-to-visit-pakistan-on-oct-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=96374","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan to visit Pakistan on Oct 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan will visit Pakistan on Friday (Oct 30), as the two countries mark 60 years of diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit to Islamabad, Dr Balakrishnan will meet Pakistan&#8217;s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar, who will also host him to lunch, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The two ministers will hold a joint press conference following their meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinister Balakrishnan\u2019s visit to Pakistan reaffirms the longstanding friendship between Singapore and Pakistan, which is underpinned by mutual respect and warm people-to-people ties,\u201d said MFA in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The visit will provide an opportunity to deepen relations and explore new areas of cooperation, including disaster management, innovation and research, and education.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr Balakrishnan will also call on Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, the country&#8217;s chief of defence forces and army staff.<\/p>\n<p>His itinerary includes a visit to the National Center of Artificial Intelligence at Pakistan\u2019s National University of Sciences and Technology to understand its advancements in AI, MFA said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Balakrishnan will be accompanied by officials from MFA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/vivian-balakrishnan-pakistan-visit-6502981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n<p><center><script>\n  atOptions = {\n    'key' : 'ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540',\n    'format' : 'iframe',\n    'height' : 90,\n    'width' : 728,\n    'params' : {}\n  };\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highrevenueformat.com\/ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540\/invoke.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan will visit Pakistan on Friday (Oct 30), as the two countries mark 60 years of diplomatic relations. During&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3752,4308,3751,1213,1656,27310,22,1210,4307],"class_list":["post-96374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-affairs","tag-balakrishnan","tag-foreign","tag-minister","tag-oct","tag-pakistan","tag-singapore","tag-visit","tag-vivian","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}