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defense production, both countries took an important step forward (Dawn 15 October, 1987).
The common prospective of Ankara and Islamabad bind them together, impulses temporary incompatibilities and inconsistencies in then relationship on side line. Turkish and the Pakistani governments tried to induce their respective private sectors to increase bilateral trade. During 1989 the new Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto visited Ankara and called for reinforcing further deep brotherly ties between Turkey and Pakistan. It was appreciated that excellent political relations were not reflected in their economic cooperation. It was also noted for example that the significance of trade between them was far from satisfactory and the balance had been unfavorable for Pakistan. The deficit grew over the year. In 1983-84 their total trade amounted to Rs.453 million with Pakistan’s deficit standing at 161 million. The two countries also decided in 1989 to constitute committees of technical experts to identify bottlenecks.
With the change of government in Pakistan, during Nawaz Sharif’s premiership Mr. Sartaj Aziz, Minister for finance paid official visit to Turkey in April 1991 and a meeting of Joint Commission for Economic and Technical Cooperation between Pakistan and Turkey was held in Ankara. Regarding trade relations both sides noted with satisfaction the recent increase in volume of trade which had reached 130 million US dollars in 1990. However the two sides again stressed that the level of bilateral trade did not fully reflect the real potential of both countries. The two sides therefore agreed to make concerted efforts to increase and diversify bilateral trade to the maximum possible level on a balanced and a beneficial basis (Hasan, 2002).
Turkish Prime Minister Mr. Suleyman Demirel visit to Pakistan 1992
In October 1992, Pakistan and Turkey decided to consider several measures to bring their trade relations at par. Turkish Prime Minister Mr. Suleyman Demirel visited P