her Middle Eastern countries, such as Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain. After that in the late fifties, between the Baghdad Pact countries, Iran’s trade with Pakistan was the largest of all, with Iraq and Turkey occupying the second and third respectively. Visit of Turkish Trade Team in Pakistan 1959 However, by the beginning of the sixties, Pakistan and Turkey began searching for avenues of expanding trade. A Turkish trade team visited Karachi in October 1959 and in a joint communiqu?? announced that there were ‘possibilities of development of trade’ between Pakistan and Turkey and further official meetings were expected to take place in near future ‘for achieving some positive results’ in this respect. At that time the Pakistan commerce Minister noted with regret at a press conference in Istanbul on 15 October 1959, trade between two countries was negligible with a balance of about two million rupees in favor of Pakistan (Ali, 2001). Facts behind Formation of RCD The three countries Iran, Pakistan and Turkey may be regarded as belonging to distant cultural area. They are non Arab and the Turko-Persian culture dominates the lives of the people. Thus besides Islam they have many common bond between them. They have been united under the Ottoman Empire and had common political thinkers, historians, writers and poets. All the three states were the members of CENTO and their policies were pro-west. If we analyze their economic needs in the early sixties, all three were moving towards industrialization and modernization. Their economic needs and goals were similar in the beginning of sixties. They disenchanted with the west and began to looking for new avenues. Turkey was not happy over the issue of Turkish Cypriots. In Iran there was in evidence a trend towards national assertion, and country had sought to lessen its embroilment in the Russo-American conf>