Overview
- Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar and EU High Representative Kaja Kallas co-chaired the seventh Pakistan–EU Strategic Dialogue in Brussels.
- Both sides urged Afghanistan’s authorities to protect human rights, with specific emphasis on women, girls, and vulnerable communities.
- The EU praised Pakistan’s long hosting of Afghan refugees and stressed that any returns must be safe, dignified, and consistent with international standards.
- The meeting welcomed the first-phase Gaza ceasefire agreement, calling for full implementation, humanitarian access, stabilisation, reconstruction, and concrete steps toward a two-state solution.
- The partners reaffirmed GSP+ as central to trade ties, noted ongoing Erasmus Mundus and Horizon Europe collaboration, discussed easing recent Pakistan–Afghanistan border tensions through dialogue, and agreed to hold the eighth round in Islamabad.