{"id":3601,"date":"2021-10-31T11:34:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T11:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=3601"},"modified":"2021-10-31T11:34:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T11:34:45","slug":"pm-imran-khan-says-pakistan-efforts-for-peace-in-the-region-not-hidden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-imran-khan-says-pakistan-efforts-for-peace-in-the-region-not-hidden\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Imran Khan says Pakistan efforts for peace in the region not hidden"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan said that owing to their complementarities in the socioeconomic fundamentals, Saudi Arabia\u2019s Vision 2030 provided opportunities to Pakistan to engage with Saudi Arabia in realizing Naya Pakistan\u2019s ambitious plan.
\n\u201cI must say that there are significant complementarities in the socio-economic fundamentals of the \u201cNaya Pakistan\u201d and the Saudi Vision 2030. Both lay emphasis on economic opportunity and diversity, domestic growth, modernization and development, and trade linkages and connectivity,\u201d the prime minister said in an interview with Saudi Arabia\u2019s newspaper.
\nThe prime minister said Pakistan could contribute manpower; both skilled and semi-skilled besides sharing its expertise in other sectors like IT, infrastructure development, and agriculture.
\nHe said Pakistan and Saudi Arabia had historically enjoyed long-standing fraternal ties, rooted deep in common faith, shared history and mutual support. Both countries have stood by each other, through thick and thin, regardless of the change in leadership.
\n\u201cWe never had the reason to reposition our relations with Saudi Arabia in the wake of regional or international developments \u2013 in the past as well in as contemporary times. Relations between the two countries have withstood the test of time,\u201d he remarked.
\nImran Khan said both the countries had a special bond for seven decades now.
\n\u201cIt is now our earnest desire to transform this relationship into a deep, diverse and mutually beneficial strategic partnership. We are now working to consolidate historical gains by exploring new and non-conventional areas of cooperation. We want our trade relations and investment cooperation to be commensurate with excellent political relations,\u201d he said.
\nHe said during his recent visit to Saudi Arabia, he had the opportunity to attend the first Saudi-Pakistan Investment Forum wherein he stressed the importance of engaging the private and corporate sectors of the two countries to realize the untapped potential in the fields of trade, business and investment.
\n\u201cI am confident that the Investment Forum would usher in a new dynamism in our investment cooperation.\u201d
\nTo a question, he commended the Saudi leadership for introducing reforms in various sectors under Vision 2030.
\nDuring the recent visit, he said the two countries had discussed ways to strengthen and enhance economic and trade relations by exploring areas of investment and opportunities available under Vision 2030 and Pakistan\u2019s development priorities emanating from a shift from geopolitics to geo-economics.
\nRegarding the Middle East Green Initiative (MGI) Summit on Climate Change, he said it clearly demonstrated the commitment of the Saudi leadership to take tangible steps for effectively tackling the challenge of Climate Change.
\n\u201cGreen Saudi Initiative\u201d and \u201cGreen Middle East Initiative\u201d are remarkable initiatives for the preservation of nature and climate not only in Saudi Arabia but in the entire region. The threat that climate change poses to this planet is real and it is high time for concerted actions in the right direction, he added
\nHe said Pakistan had also been working on similar projects including Clean and Green Pakistan and 10 Billion Tree Tsunami.
\n\u201cWe believe that our priorities and goals converge in this regard and we can therefore learn from each other and extend our mutual support to mitigate the impacts of climate change,\u201d he commented.
\nAbout the role Pakistan and Saudi Arabia could play for unity of Muslim Ummah, the prime minister said as an important member state of the OIC, Saudi Arabia had always played a major role in uniting Muslim countries and highlighting the issues plaguing the Muslim world.
\nIn the 47th Session of OIC CFM held in 2020, in Niamey, the OIC unanimously adopted Pakistan\u2019s initiated resolution on Islamophobia.
\n\u201cThe rising threat in the West towards Islam is a universal point of concern. We believe in harmony and peaceful coexistence as terrorism has never been and shall never be the true face of Islam,\u201d he stated.
\nHe said the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was home to the Two Holy Mosques therefore it has a natural leadership role to play for the Muslim Ummah and Pakistan shall be at the fore front to collaborate in the endeavour.
\nAbout the financial support by Saudi Arabia, Imran Khan said, \u201cI am extremely grateful to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the recent announcement to deposit US dollars 3 billion and financing US dollars 1.2 billion refined petroleum products during the year.
\nThis generous budgetary support will help the balance of payment of Pakistan in the backdrop of rising commodity prices globally.\u201d
\nHe said Pakistan and Saudi Arabia had long-standing and historic fraternal relations, rooted deep in common faith, shared history and mutual support. Saudi Arabia has always extended generous support to Pakistan in its difficult times.
\n\u201cThe latest generous gesture by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia reaffirms the all-weather friendship between the two states,\u201d the prime minister added.
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan said that owing to their complementarities in the socioeconomic fundamentals, Saudi Arabia\u2019s Vision 2030 provided opportunities to Pakistan to engage with Saudi Arabia in realizing Naya Pakistan\u2019s ambitious plan. \u201cI must say that there are significant complementarities in the socio-economic fundamentals of the \u201cNaya Pakistan\u201d and the Saudi Vision […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[2152,546],"class_list":["post-3601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-pm-imran-khan-says-pakistan-efforts-for-peace-in-the-region-not-hidden","tag-prime-minister-pm-imran-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}