Abstract
Liaquat Ali Khan’s visit to USSR was initiated, proposed, accepted but not
honoured. Liaquat Ali Khan was invited by the ultimate approval of Joseph
Stalin, brokered by Pakistan ambassador: Raja Ghazanfar Ali in Tehran through
Soviet Embassy. Between June 1949 to October 1951 it did not take place.
Liaquat Ali Khan visited USA in May 1950, a successful visit, but Moscow
remained unvisited. It threw cold water on Pakistan-Soviet relationship by
putting the former a dependent periphery ally on US military, economic and
political support in the years to come. In wider analysis the visit to Moscow
should have taken place for balanced and co-existent foreign policy of Pakistan
with major and regional powers, but it unfortunately did not. It dimmed the
prospects of good relationship with Moscow in years to come.
Mansoor Akbar Kundi, Manzoor Khan Afridi. (2018) Why Visit to Moscow not materialized: Myths and Realities, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 55, Issue 1.
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