Kazakhstan and Pakistan ink 19 pacts to boost trade, digitalization, and security ties

ASTANA, Kazakhstan, February 4. Kazakhstan and
Pakistan signed 19 agreements and memoranda covering trade,
transport, digitalization, health, and security cooperation during
a state visit by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in
Astana, Trend
reports via the press office of the Kazakh president.

It was also announced that 18 additional agreements would be
signed during the upcoming state visit of Kazakhstan’s President
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to Pakistan.

The documents, signed in the presence of Kazakhstan’s President
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, include:

Economy and Trade

- Transit trade agreement between Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Trade
and Integration and Pakistan’s Ministry of Commerce

- Memorandum of understanding between Kazakhstan’s Agency for
Regulation and Development of the Financial Market and Pakistan’s
State Bank

- Memorandum of understanding in digital assets between
Kazakhstan’s Ministry of AI and Digital Development and Pakistan’s
Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority

- Memorandum of understanding on logistics between Kazakhstan
Temir Zholy JSC and Pakistan’s National Logistics Corporation

Transport and Infrastructure

- Memorandum of cooperation between Kazakhstan’s Ministry of
Transport and Pakistan’s Federal Ministry of Maritime Affairs

- Memorandum of understanding between Kazakhstan’s Ministry of
Transport and Pakistan’s Ministry of Railways

- Memorandum on information exchange and professional
development between Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Transport and Karachi
Port

Law and Security

- Memorandum of understanding on joint deployment of
peacekeeping units in UN missions

- Extradition treaty

- Agreement on cooperation and mutual administrative assistance
in customs matters

Digitalization and Media

- Memorandum of cooperation in artificial intelligence and
digitalization

- Memorandum of understanding and cooperation between
Kazakhstan’s Presidential Tele-Radio Complex and Associated Press
of Pakistan (APP)

Science and Education

- Memorandum of cooperation in mining and geological
sciences

- Memorandum of understanding between Al-Farabi Kazakh National
University and Pakistan’s Ministry of Education and Professional
Training

Health and Environment

- Memorandum of understanding in healthcare

- Agreement on veterinary cooperation

- Agreement on cooperation in plant quarantine and
protection

- Memorandum of understanding in climate change and
environmental protection

Culture and Humanitarian Cooperation

- Plan of activities for cultural and humanitarian cooperation
for 2026-2027

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