Editor's Note.

This year Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan are celebrating thirty years of their diplomatic relationship with full diplomatic vigor and excitement. Both the states continue to evolve bilateral relationships driven by goodwill, mutual respect, and win-win cooperation. Since the inception of diplomatic relations in 1991, Islamabad and Bishkek have been on close terms with each other. Pakistan was amongst the first tier of countries that immediately established diplomatic relations with Kyrgyzstan and operationalized their embassies by 1995. The cornerstone of the bilateral relationships is the trade and economy which is now being capitalized through connectivity between the Central Asian region and Pakistan. Pakistan was among the pioneers to understand the trade potential of the Kyrgyz Republic and established a branch of the State Bank of Pakistan in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Capital. It is a landlocked country sharing borders with Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan, the biggest and richest in the region. It reflects the trade potential because of the regional economies' connectivity, interdependence, and interoperability. In this regard, Kyrgyzstan also expressed the willingness to become part of China's Pakistan Economic Corridor while highlighting the liberal trade regime of Bishkek extending protection to investments, untapped repatriation of profits, low business cost, developed human resources, and freedom of currency exchange.

Kyrgyzstan holds a lot of opportunities for Pakistan to benefit especially through gaining access to the 182 million-strong 'Eurasian Economic Markets in the country. The energy cooperation is another significant product of thirty years of bilateral relations between Bishkek and Islamabad. Central Asia- South Asia 1000 hydel electricity transmission line between Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Pakistan is an energy-scarce country with limited resources for cheap power production whereby the Kyrgyz republic enjoys the natural luxury of abundant hydel resources. It is a two-way transmission line able to transmit surplus electricity back and forth provided by availability as Pakistan needs more energy in the summer months every year. It further opens the avenues of cooperation into transmission efficiency and integration for power...