ISLAMABAD, Oct 05 (NNI): Caretaker Minister for Information and Broadcasting Murtaza Solangi says Pakistan is eager to have good relations with all the countries, including India, with a special focus on economy and trade.
Addressing the international conference on “Navigating Peace & Security in the Region and Beyond: Pakistan’s Role,” organised at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) in Islamabad on Thursday, the Information Minister said the government of Pakistan is determined to look after its people and is fully focusing on strengthening economy, boosting trade, and exploring new opportunities under the Special Investment Facilitation of Council.
Murtaza Solangi said Pakistan has good relations with China, Iran and the Middle East. He said Islamabad still maintained those ties but it is now shifting those relations towards economy and trade.
He said that now it was focusing to further improve economic and trade ties with the oil-rich states.
Similarly, Pakistan, despite having issues, wants to have good neighborly relations with India and Afghanistan.
He said the countries and political leadership did make mistakes in the past and Pakistan also had its share of mistakes and adding “but now we want to move on”.
The minister said it was in Pakistan’s interest to avoid the ongoing confrontation between major world powers. He said that Pakistan had some lessons from its role with regard to the confrontation of major powers in the past.
He said Pakistan also wanted to have pragmatic relations with Kabul. There had been no positive outcomes so far despite Pakistan’s sincere efforts to improve ties with Afghanistan, he added.
He said that unfortunately out of 24 suicide attacks in the recent past, 14 had the involvement of Afghan nationals. NNI
