Pakistani PM to visit Turkey

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will pay a three-day visit to Turkey from Feb. 22 for the fifth session of the Pakistan-Turkey High Level Strategic Cooperation Council (HLSCC) to be held in Ankara on Feb. 23, according to the Foreign Ministry here Tuesday.

A high-level delegation, consisting of ministers and senior officials, will accompany the prime minister during the visit. Sharif is expected to have wide-ranging consultations with the Turkish leadership on bilateral, regional and international issues, the ministry said in a statement.

Together with his Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim, Sharif would co-chair the HLSCC, a framework for consultations at the highest political level between the two sides with focuses on trade, energy, banking and finance, Communications and railways, education, and culture and tourism.

The bilateral HLSCC was established in 2009 and the last session was held in Islamabad in 2015.

During the visit, Sharif also plans to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Source: Xinhua