Earlier, England, who won the toss and opted to bat first, scored 160-5 in their allotted 20 overs.
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SAM Billings will keep trying to emulate Jos Buttler – when he next has an opportunity to do so for England.
Both the English openers, Jason Roy (9) and Alex Hales (8) got out in the mandatory power play without making any strong impression on the opposition.
They return to the same venue on Thursday for the first of three Twenty20s, in which the skipper is calling for more of the same.
Vince hit 30 of his haul in boundaries, while Morgan struck three fours and a six in his steadying knock.
The pair added 76 runs for the fourth wicket, giving England the much needed platform to accelerate towards the end.
Nonetheless, with three figures in sight on 95-3 and Vince (41) honing on an initial, individual milestone, he wafted at a Wahab Riaz inswinger (1-33) and paid the price for it.
Billings filled in for Lancashire star Buttler in front of and behind the stumps in Monday’s 79-run Twenty20 warm-up victory over the United Arab Emirates at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium.
Sam Billings is one of the exciting players coming through for England.
But Billings dominated a partnership of 65 in six overs with Morgan, to race to his first worldwide fifty in 24 balls. Hong Kong captain Tanwir Afzal, who was born in Pakistan, started the innings with a maiden and Ahmed Shehzad’s miserable run continued when he made a golden duck, lbw to Haseeb Amjad from the first ball of the second over. All the while, Rafatullah Mohmand, the debutant, had prodded it around to score 20 off 16 balls, but an attempt to be aggressive proved to be his undoing as he fell to Liam Plunkett.
Large crowds, unlike for the three-match Test series here, are expected as the ex-pat Pakistani community shows its love for white-ball cricket.
Pakistan had lost half their side with 87 runs still needing from 47 balls.
Anwar Ali climbed into two sixes in Parry’s last over, but Plunkett returned to have him caught at mid-off and complete a career-best.
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Chasing 161 to win and having slumped to 42 for 4, Pakistan ended a minor revival in calamitous fashion with the unsafe Umar Akmal racing non-striker Sohaib Maqsood for the safety of the non-striker’s crease after a mix-up over a single to short fine-leg and departing an unhappy man after losing the third-umpire photo finish.
