Pak, Turkey holds consultations on Strategic Economic Framework.

ANKARA -- Pakistani and Turkish senior officials In Ankara Friday hold wide ranging consultations on Strategic Economic Framework (SEF) aimed at boosting trade and commercial ties between the two brotherly countries. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan agreed on January 4, 2019 in Ankara to develop a long-term strategic economic framework for promoting economic relationship to reflect the extremely close strategic and historic ties between the two countries, according to a press release received here. Secretary, Economic Affairs Divison, Noor Ahmed, headed Pakistan delegation which included senior officials of concerned Ministries and Departments. Ambassador of Pakistan to Turkey Mohammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi and Pakistan Consul General in Istanbul Bilal Khan Pasha were also attended the meeting.

Deputy Minister for Trade, Gonca Yilmaz Batur, headed the Turkish delegation. She said that considerable progress was made on discussing the draft SEF as...