Zardari, Erdogan call for further strengthening bilateral ties

ISLAMABAD, (NNI): President Asif Ali Zardari and President of Turkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday called for further strengthening of bilateral relations between the two countries in various fields.

The two leaders spoke over the phone and discussed matters of mutual interest, a post on President of Pakistan X account said.

President Zardari felicitated the Turkish President on the forthcoming Eid-ul-Fitr and invited him to visit Pakistan, besides expressing his best wishes for him and the people of Turkiye, another related X post said.

President Asif Ali Zardari and Turkish President @RTErdogan spoke over the phone and discussed matters of mutual interest. The two called for further strengthening bilateral relations in various fields.

In a separate development, earlier Pakistan, Saudi

Arabia and Türkiye discussed potential collaboration in defence equipment technologies including research and development.

According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), this was discussed in the second meeting of the Trilateral Defence Collaboration held on Tuesday at the GHQ, Pakistan,

The three sides reaffirmed the salience of "combining the intellectual, technical, financial as well as human resources of the three friendly nations towards the achievement of shared objectives and attainment of self-sufficiency in the defence domain".

Acknowledging their historical relations, the three countries reiterated the strategic intent to increase the scope of trilateral cooperation and the need to enhance the pace of collaboration in pursuit of common goals, the military's media wing further said.