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is the
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of
Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...
to
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.Canada revises travel advisory for Pakistan
Dawn (newspaper), Published 7 September 2018, Retrieved 3 February 2020
The
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is located at 10 Range Road in the Sandy Hill neighbourhood among a cluster of other embassies.


History

It overlooks Strathcona Park and beyond it the
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. The building was constructed for future
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Chief Justice Francis Anglin in 1912. It was designed by prominent Ottawa architect Werner Ernst Noffke. The building was purchased by Pakistan in 2004 for $1.1 million under the ambassadorial tenure of
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. Before this the embassy had been located in an office building on Slater Street in downtown. The embassy had previously been located in Sandy Hill, but in 1975 it had been gutted by fire. The
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is located at 190 Coltrin Road in
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.


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* Zaheer Aslam Janjua (2022; present) * Raza Bashir Tarar (2019; 2022)Canada asked to move visa centre back to Islamabad
Dawn (newspaper), Published 5 April 2019, Retrieved 3 February 2020 *
Tariq Azim Khan Tariq Azim Khan was Pakistan's Deputy Information Minister under Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz during Pervez Musharraf regime. His duties included speaking with foreign media and he heads 'The Pakistan Image Project'.Mian Gul Akbar Zeb *
Shahid Malik Shahid Rafique Malik (; born 24 November 1967) is a British technology and media industry chairman and former politician. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Dewsbury from 2005 to 2010. The son of the mayor of B ...
*
Musa Javed Chohan Musa Javed Chohan (Urdu: ) (b. 30 May 1948 in Pind Dadan Khan, Pakistan) is the former High Commissioner of Pakistan to Canada, as well as the former ambassador of Pakistan to France and Pakistan's permanent representative to UNESCO from 200 ...
* Naela Chohan *Farouk Rana, 1996


References


External links


High Commission of Pakistan, OttawaConsulate General of Pakistan, Toronto
{{Diplomatic missions in Canada
Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...
Ottawa Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It is located in the southern Ontario, southern portion of the province of Ontario, at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the cor ...
Canada–Pakistan relations