The recent launch of an indigenously-constructed Fleet Tanker at the Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works Ltd marked a significant milestone in the history of Pak-Turkey defence collaboration. These two countries have always enjoyed the most fraternal of ties and under its overarching warmth, cooperation at the military and more particularly the naval level has continued to blossom. The first time this relationship got formalised was under the Turco-Pak treaty of 1954, which inter alia also dealt with the vital subject of defence collaboration. The Pakistan-Turkey Military Consultative Group (MCG) was subsequently set up in 1988 to give a physical boost to the process.
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