Bilateral meetings have always emphasized the need for increasing commercial and economic collaboration, chiefly through encouraging the exchange of trade delegations.

The early generation of Air Malta pilots, as well as flight and ground engineers, owe their training and initial knowledge to PIA.

[9] Later in 2009, it was widely reported that a Pakistan-based human trafficking ring had set up a successful business in Malta of furnishing illegal documents to Pakistanis seeking entry into mainland Europe.

In December 2002, a boat transporting approximately 110 undocumented Pakistanis was stopped by the Maltese Army and the illegal passengers were detained under the immigration act.

A substantial figure was generated as a result of a donation drive in July 2016 for victims of the deluge that ravaged northern Pakistan.