ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: President Pervez Musharraf will visit Turkey in January, a senior official said on Wednesday.

This will be the fourth visit of Gen Musharraf to Turkey, where he lived as a child while his diplomat father was posted there.

The trip will fall six months after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s three-day state visit to Pakistan in June.

“Pakistan wants to upgrade its economic relations with Turkey and will undertake a follow-up of decisions taken during the visit of the Turkish prime minister to Islamabad,” the official, who requested anonymity, told AFP.

“During the bilateral meeting, the two sides will discuss regional and international situations,” he said.