Pakistan is the land of opportunities: Tehmina Janjua
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*ISLAMABAD:* Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua said on Wednesday that Pakistan was the land of opportunities for Central Asian Republics (CARs).
She said this while addressing a daylong international conference titled Pakistan – A Land of Opportunities for Central Asian Republics organised by the National Security Division in collaboration with Global & Strategic Studies Institute.
The foreign secretary delivered her presentation on Addressing Geo-Political Challenges to Enhance Regional Integration highlighting the geo-strategic and geo-political importance of Pakistan in the region.
She said that Pakistan’s foreign policy pursues connectivity, energy, peace and developing people-to-people and cultural contacts among the regional countries. Tehmina Janjua said that no country was so much adversely affected by the conflict of Afghanistan as Pakistan was.
“The Afghan conflict has gifted Pakistan with weapons, drugs and refuges,” she said.
Thus, the situation has also made the country suffer from smugglers and human traffickers, she added.
She said that no military solution was possible to resolve the Afghan conflict. Janjua said that today the dream of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor was closer to reality. She also lauded the efforts of China for its One Belt, One Road Initiatives and peaceful rise of China and its shared interest in the future and prosperity of the region.
She said that the Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan & India Pipeline as well as the Central Asia-South Asia power project, commonly known by the acronym CASA 1000 are underway.
During the conference, a large number of academicians and policy experts from CARs presented their research papers on various themes of regional integration, economic cooperation, connectivity, socio-cultural exchanges and security cooperation among the regional countries.