Pakistan and Turkey Strengthen Ties with Education-Focused MOUs
Prime Minister Mian Shehbaz Sharif and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signed 24 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) on Thursday, spanning multiple sectors such as trade, defense, healthcare, and media.
Notable agreements included a Joint Declaration on the 7th Turkey-Pakistan High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council, an MoU between Turkey’s Export Credit Bank and Pakistan’s Export-Import Bank, and a technical cooperation pact between their central banks. They also signed a Joint Ministerial Statement to boost trade in goods, along with deals on industrial property collaboration and digital verification of trade documents.
Defense ties were strengthened through MoUs on military and civilian personnel exchanges, electronic warfare cooperation, and military health training. Turkey’s Aerospace Industries also signed an agreement with Pakistan’s Naval Research and Development Institute.
Further agreements focused on agricultural seed production, energy transition, mining, water resource management, and hydrocarbons. Other MoUs addressed halal trade cooperation, legal metrology infrastructure, and public relations strategies.
The two countries also finalized deals in media, competition regulation, religious education, health, pharmaceuticals, and the co-production of audio-visual content.