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Relations with Pakistan

Updated: 13 June 2025

NATO and Pakistan are engaged in dialogue and cooperation, where there is a common interest in promoting stability in the region and in defeating extremism.

NATO and Pakistan started strengthening dialogue and cooperation following NATO assistance to the country in the wake of a massive earthquake in 2005.
Pakistan is one of a range of NATO partner countries beyond the Euro-Atlantic area, often referred to as “partners across the globe”.
NATO offers selected training and education courses to Pakistani officers.
High-level political exchanges have taken place over the years, including between past NATO Secretaries General and high-level Pakistani political and military officials.
NATO and Pakistan also hold regular senior-level military staff talks.

Key areas of cooperation

Pakistan’s cooperation with NATO is mutually beneficial and includes:

Support for NATO-led operations and missions

Pakistan supported the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which completed its mission in Afghanistan in 2014, by allowing for the transit of ISAF supplies through Pakistan.
Pakistan also supported the follow-on Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan, which ran from 2015 until 2021, by opening ground and air lines of communication to resupply the mission.

Wider cooperation

Pakistan’s Ministry of Defence officials have been able to participate in a series of education and training activities for a number of years, including on interoperability, defence planning and military medicine.
Under NATO’s Science for Peace and Security Programme, Pakistan currently participates in several scientific activities focusing, for example, on the protection of critical infrastructure during earthquakes, defence against chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) agents as well as advanced technologies.
Civil preparedness and disaster response capabilities have been a key area of cooperation. Pakistan requested international assistance three times through NATO’s Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC). In total, 56 countries, NGOs and international organisations provided support to Pakistan in response to the devastating earthquake in October 2005, and severe flooding in 2010 and 2011. Pakistan itself offered assistance through the EADRCC to Türkiye and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The country also participated in the EADRCC exercises hosted by Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2017 and Serbia in 2018.