{"id":13644,"date":"2025-11-04T05:17:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/11\/04\/marking-jsdf-anniversary-pakistan-leaders\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T05:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:17:31","slug":"marking-jsdf-anniversary-pakistan-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/11\/04\/marking-jsdf-anniversary-pakistan-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Marking JSDF anniversary with Pakistan leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>H.E. Mr. Akamatsu Shuichi<\/strong>, Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan, hosted a reception on Thursday 30 October to celebrate the 71st anniversary of the Japan Self-Defense Forces. The gathering in Islamabad marked the JSDF anniversary and brought together senior diplomatic and defence representatives for an evening of formal exchange.<\/p>\n<p><strong>H.E. Mr. Khawaja Muhammad Asif<\/strong>, Federal Minister for Defense, attended as the chief guest, underscoring the importance Pakistan places on sustained dialogue with Japan. The minister&#8217;s presence highlighted bilateral engagement at a high level and signalled continued attention to defence and diplomatic ties between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colonel Abe Kazuo<\/strong>, serving as Defense Attach\u00e9 at the Embassy of Japan, represented the JSDF at the reception. His participation reflected the JSDF anniversary observance and provided a platform for reaffirming mutual respect and cooperation between Japan and Pakistan within defence and diplomatic channels.<\/p>\n<p>The reception served as an opportunity to mark the JSDF anniversary while reinforcing the friendly relations and ongoing conversations that underpin Japan Pakistan ties in matters of defence and diplomacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador Akamatsu hosted a reception on 30 October marking the JSDF anniversary with Pakistan&#8217;s defence minister to reaffirm defence ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}