In September 1939 the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin had annexed Eastern Poland in cooperation with Nazi Germany, displacing many Poles, and triggering the outbreak of the Second World War with the Allies, including the British Empire.

[4] During World War II, the city of Karachi, the chief port in the territory that would become Pakistan, hosted around 30,000 Polish refugees.

[5] On the 1st of November 1970 the Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Zygfryd Wolniak was killed at Karachi airport during a welcome ceremonies by a Pakistan International Airlines employee and anti-communist Islamic fundamentalist named Mohammed Feroze Abdullah who was trying to kill the entire delegation but aiming for Polish President Marian Spychalski in particular.

Driving a PIA cargo lorry at high speed he mowed down the delegation, narrowly missing his intended target.

The other three victims were Pakistani; the deputy director of the Intelligence Bureau, Chaudhri Mohammed Nazir, and two government photographers.

[citation needed] However, these close relations underwent tension when Pakistani Taliban members captured and brutally murdered a Polish engineer, Piotr Stanczak, in September 2008.

[9] Aziz and Attaullah, another suspect in the engineer's murder, was brought to Anti-Terrorism Court II in an armored personnel carrier under the protection of Islamabad and Attock police.

[5] Polish scientists also helped the country to launch its space programme, with General Turowicz becoming the program's technical director in 1967.

Poland is considered to have large shale gas deposits and prominent Polish geological surveying and exploration companies have business and investment relations with Pakistan.

Trade relations improved when President Pervez Musharraf paid a three-day official visit to Poland in April 2007.