Vice President of Turkiye, Cevdet Yilmaz, pays a two-day visit to Pakistan.Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif and Vice President Yilmaz will jointly launch the fourth MILGEM Class Corvette, PNS Tariq, at the Karachi Shipyard on August 2, 2023.

Initiated in 2018, the MILGEM project envisages the construction of four Corvettes for the Pakistan Navy, two in Pakistan and two in Turkiye. The Prime Minister attended the launching ceremony of the third Naval Corvette, PNS Khyber, in Istanbul, in November 2022. Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif and Vice President Yilmaz will jointly launch the fourth MILGEM Class Corvette, PNS Tariq, at the Karachi Shipyard on August 2, 2023.