By Adnan Adil
For CentralAsiaOnline.com
2010-12-08
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan and Turkey signed 17 Memorandums of Understandings on trade, defence and other sectors December 7, media reported.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed a news conference after the signing ceremony and said the two countries would continue to co-operate.
Turkey offered military hardware and assistance in infrastructure building to Pakistan, Dawn reported.
Gilani said he hoped bilateral trade between the two countries would climb to US$2 billion by 2012 from US $1 billion in 2009, Dawn reported.