The formal inauguration by the prime minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan took place on 26 March 1948.
Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, Clement Attlee, Henry Kissinger and Ralph Bunche, Richard Nixon, Sutan Sjahrir of Indonesia; and national leaders such as Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, President Ayub Khan, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, President General Zia-ul-Haq, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Chief Justice of Pakistan Syed Sajjad Ali Shah, Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri, Admiral Afzal Tahir and President General Pervez Musharraf.
In April 2017, National Security Adviser Nasir Khan Janjua addressed an event arranged by the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs.
The Pakistan Horizon, founded in 1948, is the oldest research journal of international affairs on the Indian sub-continent.
[clarification needed] Some recent titles of the Pakistan Horizon include: Kashmir (April 2003); Pakistan-India Relations (July 2004); Afghanistan after 9/11 (January 2006), Pakistan's Foreign Policy Analysis (April 2007), Challenges to Global Security (July 2007, Women's Concerns in International Relations (October 2007)and Founding Members' Number (January–April 2008).