PAKISTAN and Turkiye share a historically deep-rooted, strategic partnership which is gen-erally dubbed as “Two States, One Nation”. Their relationship was anchored by strong de-fence collaboration such as joint naval warship projects and military exercises, extensive cultural and religious affinity and a Preferential Trade Agreement signed in August 2022 to boost bilateral economy. Bilateral relations between the two brotherly Islamic countries can easily be categorized falling in the domains of Institutional Cooperation, Defence and Security, Economic and Trade Relations and Cultural and People-to-People ties.

These relations were further bolstered, promoted and strengthened when Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif paid his another official, short but quite hectic visit to Turkiye at the invitation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He had reached Istanbul and accorded warm welcome from Tehran where he had gone to offer personal condolences to the people and leadership of Iran over assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah........

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