Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is scheduled to address the Turkish parliment late Thursday - the first time a prime minister from Pakistani has addressed the body, dpa reported
Gilani is in Turkey on a three-day official visit, which will also see him meet other political and business leaders.
Gilani, who arrived in Ankara on Monday, will also co-chair with his Turkish counterpart, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the inaugural meeting of a High Level Cooperation Council between Turkey and Pakistan. The council is conceived of as a strategic platform to guide relations between the two countries.
Gilani's trip to Turkey comes during a week marked so far by violence in Pakistan, where on Monday two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a government building in the tribal district of Mohmand, killing 43 people, including the head of the militia Malik Kachgol Jan, two journalists and 13 members of the tribal police. Taliban claimed responsibility for the carnage.
On Tuesday, a suicide bombing on a convey transporting the chief minister of the south-western province of Baluchistan injured nine people, though the minister was unhurt.
Gilani and his Turkish counterparts are expected to discuss security issues in Pakistan and Afghanistan, among other topics.
The two Muslim nations have good relations. Turkey sent 10 million dollars worth of humanitarian aid to Pakistan when the country suffered catastrophic flooding this past summer
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