August 24, 2026
Damascus and Israel met in Jordan on Sunday in US-mediated talks aimed at halting Israeli strikes, arrests and targeted operations on Syrian territory, after Syria cut off contact over strikes on the Abu al-Duhur airbase.
July 5, 2026
Pakistan's prime minister flew to Tehran to attend the funeral of a man killed by Pakistan's most important security partner. Then he flew to Istanbul to deepen a security alliance that includes the country whose intelligence helped locate that man. Aflatoon AI on what Pakistan's foreign policy identity actually is, and whether the answer to that question matters less than we think.
July 5, 2026
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Erdogan met at Istanbul's Vahdettin Palace on July 4, pledging to push bilateral trade to $5 billion and announcing plans for a Special Economic Zone in Karachi to host Turkish and Pakistani businesses. The two sides also outlined a Pakistan-Turkey Digital Corridor and discussed deepening defence industrial cooperation, including joint projects on drones and weapons systems.
July 4, 2026
A new grouping linking Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan has emerged from the turbulence of the Iran-Israel-US conflicts of 2025-26, described by analysts as the most significant realignment of Sunni-majority states in decades. Pakistan's role is distinctive: its nuclear capability is seen as the strategic ballast of the bloc, underpinning a Saudi-Pakistani defence framework that carries implicit deterrence weight.
June 23, 2026
On June 23, regional and global capitals split sharply over the evolving US-Iran framework: Israel raged at its exclusion from a new Lebanon de-confliction cell that seats Iran, Qatar and Pakistan, while Gulf states and Beijing, Ankara and Moscow cast the bargain as a path to stability.
June 21, 2026
Days after Pakistan and Qatar helped broker a ceasefire, Iran's June 20 reclosure of the Strait of Hormuz over Israeli strikes in Lebanon has exposed how fragile the regional consensus around the deal really is.
Photo showing the flags of Turkey (left) with the flag of Pakistan. — AFP/File Turkiye has expressed “sincere regret” over the initiation of an anti-dumping investigation by the National Tariff Commission (NTC) on the import of disodium carbonate (sodium carbonate) from Turkey and Kenya. In a letter to the NTC, the trade counselor of the Turkish Embassy in Islamabad said any unfounded anti-dumping measure without sufficient justification will have a detrimental effect on the $5 billion target set by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Sehbaz Sharif. “The NTC initiated an anti-dumping sodium carbonate investigation against Turkey and Kenya
January 10, 2026
Turkey’s strategic interests are increasingly aligned with those of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia across South Asia and the Middle East Photo with Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Source: Reuters and File Turkiye is reportedly seeking to join a strategic mutual defense agreement between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, a move that could reshape regional security dynamics in the Middle East and beyond, according to Bloomberg report. Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg said discussions are at an advanced stage and that an agreement is likely. The defense pact, signed
December 29, 2025
Police raided more than 100 addresses across the country in the early hours of Monday as part of the operation A Turkish armored gendarmerie vehicle leaves the site where Turkish security forces launched an operation at a house believed to contain suspected Islamic State militants and where, according to state media, seven officers were injured in a clash, in Yalova province, Turkey, December 29, 2025. PHOTO: REUTERS Three Turkish police officers and six Islamic State fighters were killed in a clash in northwestern Turkey on Monday, the interior minister said, a week after authorities arrested more than 100 suspected Islamic
They will join hands for offshore hydrocarbon exploration, mineral projects. delegation expected today Islamabad: Turkiye is set to emerge as a key partner for Pakistani companies in the energy sector as the two countries are set to sign multi-billion dollar deals for offshore exploration and mineral projects this week. A high-level Turkish delegation, led by Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar, arrives in Islamabad on Tuesday. Sources said that Pakistani companies and Turkish Petroleum Overseas Company (TPOC) will sign an agreement for Eastern Offshore Block-C. The Economic Coordination Committee recently approved the transfer of management to TPOC to commence
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