Gulf region’s significance for Turkey, Pakistan discussed
Islamabad
February 11, 2021
Islamabad : NUST Institute of Policy Studies (NIPS) and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies – ORSAM, leading Ankara-based Turkish think tank, co-organised the webinar on ‘Normalisation in the Gulf Region: Significance for Turkey and Pakistan.’
The webinar was moderated by former ambassador Riaz Khokhar, former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, and was attended by Turkish and Pakistani experts, higher education leaders, academics, security analysts, scholars and students. In his opening remarks, Rector NUST Engr Javed Mahmood Bukhari highlighted Pakistan and Turkey’s earnest desire for a peaceful Middle East.
He appreciated the development and modernisation achieved by individual Gulf countries but stressed the need for moving from individual development to shared growth. He also emphasised the need for inter-Islamic coordination and cooperation in establishing a broad-based multilate