Musharraf Gives Gul Blank Check for Cyprus

Noting that that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan would arrive in Islamabad on June 15, Gul said he had conveyed to Musharraf an invitation from President Ahmet Necdet Sezer to pay a visit to Turkey.
Gul emphasized that no country other than Pakistan supported Turkey on every issue and said: "I actually have been intending to pay my first visit to Pakistan for a while, but conditions didn’t permit [it] until now. But I want it to be known that a new period [of relations] is beginning between Turkey and Pakistan." The minister voiced hope that Turkish firms working with Pakistan would succeed in securing more business contracts.

Harun Celik / Islamabad / PAKISTAN