Overview
- Norway’s Espen Barth Eide held delegation-level talks with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on August 13–14 that reviewed the full range of bilateral ties and produced public commitments to deepen cooperation.
- Both governments agreed to accelerate finalisation of pending memorandums of understanding and legal pacts to turn political commitments into concrete projects.
- Officials highlighted expanded economic ties with explicit invitations for Norwegian firms to invest in Pakistan’s oil and gas sector and a noted Yara–Fauji plant-nutrition joint venture.
- Pakistan and Norway committed to broaden security work, including stepped-up defence engagement, counterterrorism coordination, police training and cooperation on tackling illegal migration and mutual legal assistance.
- Norway praised Pakistan’s mediation role in the recent Iran–US tensions and offered support drawing on Oslo’s mediation and maritime law experience, a move that ties their bilateral agenda to wider Gulf security concerns.