Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar and Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Field Marshal Asim Munir on Sunday (August 30, 2026) reached Turkiye for a trilateral defence pact meeting, which also includes Saudi Arabia.
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The Pakistan Foreign Office in a statement said Dar, who is also the foreign minister, had landed in Istanbul for “official engagements”. Separately, the army said in a statement that Field Marshal Munir also arrived in Türkiye on an “official visit”. However, the Turkish Foreign Ministry confirmed that the first meeting of the “Strategic Political and Defence Committee” established under the defence pact will be held in Istanbul on Monday. Turkiye said its Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Defence Minister Yasar Guler and Chief of Turkish General Staff Gen Selcuk Bayraktaroglu will participate in the meeting. The last R-4 meeting was held on August 5 in Jordan’s capital Amman, where the ministers “reaffirmed the importance of continued consultation and close coordination among the four countries in advancing regional stability”, according to the Foreign Office. Dar travelled to Turkiye from London where he “concluded a successful official visit to the UK”, according to the Foreign Office.
