Pakistanis in Italy

Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs repeats the Italian government's 2003 figure of 30,500 individuals, while their embassy in Rome speculated to a reporter of Pakistani newspaper Dawn as early as 2002 that the number might have already reached as high as 50,000.

[8] According to the Italian ambassador to Pakistan, Andreas Ferrarese, as of February 2021, there are around 200,000 Pakistanis in Italy, of them 140,000 are documented.

[9] A monthly Urdu-language magazine called Azad (which means "free" in Urdu) has been launched.

It aims to bridge the two cultures by helping Pakistani immigrants who either cannot speak Italian or have limited interaction with the locals.

It operates under a tripartite agreement among the Italian Government, UNESCO, and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).