ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office Spokesperson Aisha Farooqui on Thursday confirmedthat the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Pakistan nextweek.
Aisha Farooqui, while addressing a weekly press briefing today, said thePresident of Turkey will be on an official visit to Pakistan from the 13-14of February 2020.
She said that the talks were underway with the Turkish government over dualnationality agreement, adding that the details will be disclosed as soonboth countries will reach over final conclusion.
Commenting over Kashmir issue, the FO spokesperson said that People ofKashmir are under lockdown by the Indian occupation forces from past 186days. She said that Occupied Kashmir has become the largest military zonein the world.
“On Aug 05, 2019, India revoked the special status of Occupied Kashmir.Pakistan effectively raised Kashmir issue at every international forum andwill continue raising voice for Kashmiri brethren,” she added.
She said that Prime Minister Imran Khan, President Arif Alvi and ForeignMinister Shah Mehmood Qureshi condemned Indian brutalities on Feb 5(Kashmir Solidarity Day).
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Briefing media about the PM Imran Khan Malaysia visit, she said the PMKhan’s visit to Malaysia was historic, where both leaders discussed mattersrelated to strategic partnership and condemned Indian atrocities in IOK.
On coronavirus outbreak, she said the Pakistan embassy in China was incontact with Pakistani community and monitory the whole situation veryclosely.
It must be noted that Turkish ambassador to Pakistan, Mustafa Yurdakul onSaturday in an answer to a question said that Turkey and Pakistan wereindeed thinking about the prospect of dual citizenship.
Taking to Twitter, the Turkish ambassador said that the proposed idea isabout starting to work on mutual recognition of dual citizenship betweenTurkey and Pakistan.
