Pakistan says consulting with Muslim states to set up Pak-Arab Federation

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani prime minister’s special advisor on religious harmony and the Middle East, Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi, on Thursday called on the ambassadors of Oman and Iraq in Islamabad and announced that consultations were underway to set up a Pak-Arab Federation.
In his meeting with Iraq's Ambassador to Pakistan, Hamid Abbas Lafta, and Oman's Ambassador to Pakistan, Al- Sheikh Muhammad Umar Ahmed Al-Marhoon, Ashrafi said Prime Minister Imran Khan had been reinforcing better ties and bilateral coordination with Arab Muslim countries.
“Consultation is also underway to setup Pak-Arab Federation through assistance of all sections of society in Pakistan and public representatives and scholars of Arab Muslim countries at public level to promote relations,” Ashrafi said in a statement. “It is welcoming that leadership and people of Oman and Iraq are also willing and dedicated to strengthen ties and promote relations with Pakistan.”
He said every effort would be made to facilitate investors from Arab countries and to increase employment opportunities for Pakistanis in Arab states.
Lafta and Al-Marhoon said Pakistan was a very important Muslim country and had always played a “very effective role” to strengthen ties with all Muslim nations.