PM Shehbaz to leave for two-day official tour of Turkiye on Friday
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has accepted Turkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s invitation for a two-day official visit starting Friday (Nov 25 ), the Foreign Office (FO) announced on Thursday.
According to the FO’s press release, the premier will “jointly inaugurate the third of the four Milgem Corvette ships for the Pakistan Navy, PNS Khaibar, at the Istanbul Shipyard”.
PM Shehbaz will “interact with leaders of the Turkish business community” and also meet the President of the ECO Trade and Development Bank during his stay in the country’s urban centre, Istanbul.
Shehbaz and Erdogan will hold wide-ranging discussions on “bilateral relations, the regional situation and other issues of common interest”, the FO said.
The FO added that the two countries “enjoy fraternal ties deeply embedded in commonalities of faith, culture, and history and underpinned by exceptional cordiality and mutual trust”.
The Milgem project — based on a joint collaboration between Turkiye and Pakistan — was signed with ASFAT inc, a Turkish state-owned Defence contractor firm in 2018, according to which the Pakistan navy would acquire four Milgem-class ships from Turkey.
Milgem vessels are 99 metres long, have a displacement capacity of 2,400 tons and have a speed of 29 nautical miles.
These anti-submarine combat frigates, which can be hidden from the radar, would further enhance the defence capability of the Pakistan Navy.
The launching ceremony for the first Corvette for the Pakistan Navy, PNS Babur, was performed in Istanbul in August 2021 while the groundbreaking for the second ship, PNS Badr, was held in Karachi in May 2022, the FO said.
It added that the project “represents a significant milestone in the Pakistan-Turkiye strategic partnership that continues to progress on an upward trajectory”.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif earlier visited Turkiye in May-June 2022, the press release said.
The FO termed the frequent leadership-level exchanges to be a “defining feature of the eternal bonds of Pakistan-Turkiye friendship.”
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Nov 24, 2022 06:08pm
Who cares?
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Nov 24, 2022 06:18pm
Good to go. Now PM Shahbaz is relaxed to do work. But still the haunting case in UK, and case against NAB Amendments is very frightful. If Pakistan wish prosperity, the CORRUPTION must be eliminated, by all institutions.
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Nov 24, 2022 06:20pm
Another 70-odd guy will go on a holiday paid for by taxpayers
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Nov 24, 2022 06:22pm
Will Suleman Shehbaz join him from London ?
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Nov 24, 2022 06:24pm
I think this ends SS's world tour - Saudi Arabia, UAE, China and finally Turkey. That covers all.
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Nov 24, 2022 06:29pm
Think for millions of people don't think about your business and wealth. The wealth you have your family have you all will never be able to spend them in this life.
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Nov 24, 2022 06:34pm
Ask PM to sit at home sometime and think and work for Pakistan.
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Nov 24, 2022 06:49pm
This is not so important visit, there is something fishy. Absconders in London have already left London on Europe tour and now the remaining one is leaving to Turkiye.
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Nov 24, 2022 07:09pm
Not another trip. Showbiz pm can you even care to visit the plight of flood affected victims to see how they are. People are starving and you go to see billions of dollars of defense equipment which is useless.
Wrong priorities.
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Nov 24, 2022 07:10pm
Do not make unnecessary trips at the cost of tax payer money. Motrover flood has caused so many economic problems
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Nov 24, 2022 07:18pm
What happened to our own Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works?
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Nov 24, 2022 07:22pm
Pakistan is going to be an underdeveloped nation for a long time. Internal Looters are enough for her destruction.
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Nov 24, 2022 07:27pm
OMG he is leaving again. In last few months how many foreign trips and how many million miles he has travelled on taxpayer ‘s money. When is this nightmare going to end for Pakistani nation.
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Nov 24, 2022 07:34pm
Enjoy the tour must go and see the shopping district
It is worth touring goods are cheaper there then London
Good luck
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Nov 24, 2022 07:36pm
Go to your absconder brother and stay there and don’t come back. You are not needed
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Nov 24, 2022 07:46pm
What is the reason. Turkey already in a deep trouble with their economy. Might this is his personal visit for his family and further Sharif family business investment.
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Nov 24, 2022 07:49pm
Karachi Ship yard also make ship for different countries. What happened to our facility in Karachi Ship Yard. Why instead of progressing we are going backward?
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Nov 24, 2022 07:57pm
Fleeing before long march arrives
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Nov 24, 2022 08:01pm
This man became PM to waste tax payer money on useless travel abroad. No investments, no restructurings, no benefits. Utterly disgusting.
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Nov 24, 2022 08:01pm
Useless waste of taxpayer money. Turkey has no money. Begging from beggars.
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Nov 24, 2022 08:04pm
Waste of time. Turkey is begging $5bn from Saudi Arabia. What can they give Pakistan?
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Nov 24, 2022 08:04pm
Has Turkey bought any of Pakistan’s JF-17 Thunder fighter jets?
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Nov 24, 2022 08:08pm
Erdogan should ask Sharif to resign and invite IK to be PM. This is what IK is thinking all the time.
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Nov 24, 2022 08:09pm
Both leaders dreaming of being Ertugrul Gazi
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Nov 24, 2022 08:14pm
Won’t be surprised if he makes a short dash to meet his absconding bro!!! Based on previous experience after his trips to US and Egypt
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Nov 24, 2022 08:19pm
Without doubt, the MILGEM class corvettes will add to the essentially required war fighting prowess and credible deterrence held by Pakistan Navy.
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Nov 24, 2022 08:22pm
Official beggar is here people.... Dont forget he went so his son could finalise his solar power business
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Nov 24, 2022 08:28pm
He knew he's to leave the country soon for good, looking for a safe home in Turkey !
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Nov 24, 2022 08:34pm
This good for nothing guy , keeps running around , looking busy , taking his friends around on free trips across the world.
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Nov 24, 2022 08:36pm
@ Mansur Ul Haque, Karachi is the step child of sharifs.
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Nov 24, 2022 08:42pm
Run forest Run
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Nov 24, 2022 08:49pm
Would be nice if he stayed at home and actually did some work for a change.
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Nov 24, 2022 08:51pm
Meeting between Nawaz Shahbaz in Turkey, personal trip on govt expense.
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Nov 24, 2022 08:54pm
After receiving the summary from the prime minister earlier in the day, the president reached Lahore on Thursday afternoon to meet with Imran at the PTI chief’s Zaman Park residence,
IK approved the appointment of General Munir. Undoubtedly, he will be a professional and push for elections, so country can settle down politically and concentrate on economy and security.
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Nov 24, 2022 08:56pm
Is their an end to your damn travels .you are wasting country’s resources.
How could you and your brother and Dar accumulate so much wealth without working for it is mind boggling.
Let the younger generation without vested interest to rule the country.
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Nov 24, 2022 08:59pm
They both looking for the same thing.
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Nov 24, 2022 09:00pm
Americans are frying Turkey on this occasion.
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Nov 24, 2022 09:02pm
One broke advising another broke!!
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Nov 24, 2022 09:11pm
I call these weekly foreign trips as a channel to take suitcases and boxes full of cash and deposit into foreign accoumts.
Otherwise, there is no economic, political or military grounds for weekly foreign visits to different countries, while the country is supposedly in dire needs of preserving foreign currency reserves and grappling with crushing debt, dwindling exports, rising unemployment and business outlook bleak to say the least.
Estimate, each visit by this crook costs Rs 2 million.
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Nov 24, 2022 09:24pm
We have two foreign ministers. Hardly in the country. Hardly any positve contribution by con men to common man's welfare. Adding pollution to the environment with their free air travel.
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Nov 24, 2022 09:53pm
This is a moneylendering trip
Why so many trip
Time to eat desi food and breathe Pakistani polluted air.
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Nov 24, 2022 09:55pm
@Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad, There is only on news in pak media for last one months, so everyone in pak power care about this appointment.I think you don't like him.
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Nov 24, 2022 09:57pm
Shahbaz sharif made good decision to keep seniority in mind.
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Nov 24, 2022 10:03pm
Holidays on public money and begging continues.
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Nov 24, 2022 10:14pm
Shahbaz and Ishaq Dar escaping…. Put them on ECL
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Nov 24, 2022 10:16pm
What official visit. What is he going to achieve. Just using peoples' money to go meet Nawaz Sharif. Crooks squeezing the country for personal gains.
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Nov 24, 2022 10:17pm
@Justice, He already visited Turkey few months back. His fugitive son joined him at official meetings.
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Nov 24, 2022 10:22pm
This guy loves the publicity irrespective of its impact on the economy. Can the masses ask him what he is going to or has achieved during his frequent trips other than wasting scarce resources of Pakistan
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Nov 24, 2022 11:27pm
@Sajjad, and do what??. Rescue flood areas.
Just big toys for boys and to protect who??.
The enemy is within.
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Nov 24, 2022 11:28pm
@Naseem, may be prices of solar are dropping so he needs to facilitate something for his son.
Corruption at the very core.
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Nov 24, 2022 11:41pm
@asheik Achieve nothing just waste of tax payers money.
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Nov 24, 2022 11:58pm
More like meeting up with big brother who is hiding in Europe somewhere.
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Nov 25, 2022 12:27am
Enjoyment time...
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Nov 25, 2022 12:59am
Why is he vacationing in Turkey?
Sorry, he is just smuggling his loot via Turkey to his brother in UK
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Nov 25, 2022 01:15am
Two bankrupt countries, trying to pat each others back.
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Nov 25, 2022 01:39am
Gimme money
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Nov 25, 2022 01:50am
No Gas. No electricity. No Tomatoes. No Education. But a lot of money for Boys Toys - Tanks, Bombs, Guns, Corvettes and F16s !! Rest of us can eat grass for another 75 years.
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Nov 25, 2022 02:14am
Why? Come on you corrupt.
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Nov 25, 2022 03:04am
The people of Pakistan can't afford to buy Turkish goods at Rs. 220 / US$ 1. And Pakistan doesn't produce anything for export. So trade relationship will be very small.
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Nov 25, 2022 03:18am
Sharif visited in May-June and again in six months. What was achieved after earlier meeting and what has changed?
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Nov 25, 2022 03:20am
Pakistani PM has only one or two countries to go. Saudi or Turkey. But Saudis also just call once a while only. Malaysian doors closed with today’s win by opposition Anwar. Erodgan days are also numbered.
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Nov 25, 2022 03:33am
On one hand, PM is asking for loans all the time from western and Arab countries and on the other hand he does not stay in country to solve problems. Almost each week, he is somewhere but not in his own country.
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Nov 25, 2022 03:35am
He is going tell his brother and family to move Turkey with all their wealth and live there permanently
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Nov 25, 2022 03:35am
Another useless trip at tax payer’s expense Shabaz Sharif has to deposit a 30,000 pounds fine in court soon
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Nov 25, 2022 04:34am
currency crisis hurting..?
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Nov 25, 2022 05:13am
Foreign office should also disclose with names how many other people he is taking with him for a joy ride. Necessary or unnecessary.
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Nov 25, 2022 05:56am
Go meet you brother & his gang to strategize how to further loot the country without Bajwa now - good luck & have fun there - forget the poor people of Pakistan.
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Nov 25, 2022 05:56am
No wonder he has no time to look after Pakistan.
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Nov 25, 2022 06:46am
@SMI, they will take their wealth to their graves to be used in their after life, like Egyptian Pharaohs.
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Nov 25, 2022 06:53am
Grounding his jet will have a bigger impact on climate than any COP27 fund.
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Nov 25, 2022 07:23am
What a pity for Pakistan! What weight this thief carries with zero credentials! Pakistans fate is sealed in history!
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Nov 25, 2022 08:16am
Poor PM needs to meet everyone in person since his offices are bugged. I dont blame him
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Nov 25, 2022 09:19am
the PM should take a break from the foreign visits and find time to directly meet the people up and down the country and must not leave this vital field open for IK otherwise he cannot expect support from the public at the next general election to say the least.
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