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China has improved its relations with Russia and this is the time for us to develop friendly relations with Russia as well. This cooperation should not only be in the fields of energy but we must ensure some cooperation as far as WOT is concerned.
 
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Source: Zardari seeks civilian nuclear deal with China | The Australian

Bruce Loudon, South Asia correspondent | October 11, 2008

PAKISTAN President Asif Ali Zardari will visit China next week, during which he is expected to push for a civilian nuclear deal similar to that just concluded between Washington and New Delhi.

Mr Zardari will hold talks in Beijing with President Hu Jintao and will meet other Chinese leaders, including Premier Wen Jiabao and senior legislator Wu Bangguo.

The two countries, both rivals of neighbouring India, have been close allies for decades, and China is a leading source of investment and arms supplies for Pakistan.

The US agreement on civil nuclear co-operation, signed into law this week by US President George W. Bush, permits American businesses to sell nuclear fuel, technology and reactors to India in exchange for safeguards and UN inspections at India's civilian but not military nuclear plants.

News of Mr Zardari's impending China visit came as the controversial leader paid his first visit to the National Command Authority that controls the powerful warheads.

It also coincided with growing despair over Pakistan's battle against the burgeoning al-Qa'ida and Taliban-linked insurgency sweeping the country following the attack by a suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives on the hub of Islamabad's anti-terror effort - the headquarters of the capital's much-vaunted Anti-Terrorist Squad.

The attack has stunned the nation not just because of the symbolism of the target and the ability to penetrate the headquarters, but also because Islamabad was supposed to be in a security lockdown for a crisis "wartime" sitting of parliament currently under way.

"It's a joke," one senior Pakistani journalist told The Australian last night. "It's one thing to get into the Marriott hotel and blow it to smithereens, but surely being able to get into the heart of the anti-terror effort in the capital city when there is supposed to be a red alert and 'airtight' security means everything is now vulnerable. Nothing is safe. Even the nuclear command centre that Zardari visited must now be seen as potentially vulnerable to the terrorist threat."

Alarm at the security situation intensified yesterday when what was reported to be a "bearded man wearing a burqa" was detained while trying to board a flight at the newly named Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad. The state-run AAP news agency said he was suspected of being a suicide bomber.

Also yesterday, Pakistani intelligence agents began an investigation into the identities of up to eight foreigners believed killed in a suspected US missile strike close to the Afghan border.

The attack appeared to be part of a surge in alleged US assaults from Afghanistan on suspected militant targets in Pakistan that have strained ties between the two anti-terror allies.

The missile strike happened late on Thursday on a house in North Waziristan tribal region, according to two intelligence officials.

"Between six and eight foreigners were killed in the attack, but we don't know whether they were from al-Qa'ida and what was the purpose of their presence in the area," a third intelligence official from Miran Shah, the main town in North Waziristan, said yesterday.

Frantic efforts were under way in the capital yesterday to further tighten security as the in-camera parliamentary session continued.

But even as the Government appealed to MPs to support its offensive against Islamic militancy, the country's leading religious scholars made an unscheduled direct appeal to MPs to support an end to the crackdown,

The religious scholars - whose views are likely to weigh heavily with the MPs in overwhelmingly Islamic Pakistan - offered no support to the current strategy of the crackdown, which involves the biggest military offensive seen in years in the Bajaur Tribal Agency and strategic Swat Valley north of Islamabad.

Instead, they appealed for reliance on religious scholars and "patriotic elders" to bring about peace.
 
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will this step prove to be good against the USA-India Nuclear deal??
 
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I like you Jana but sometimes your answers are exactly what our adversaries want from us and that is impractical or immature replies. Say you don't like politics but don't say you don't believe in politics for without somekind of politics there cannot be a state.

by the way, i also dont like the westrn sponsoerd democracy, and cia based politicians, crunnet style of BANGALADESH is a role model concept for pakistan.:)
 
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ISLAMABAD (October 11 2008): Pakistan at this stage is not feeling to make any nuclear deal with China as Chashma series of nuclear co-operation is going on well on track and will continue in future. This was disclosed by Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Sadiq here on Friday while replying to a question regarding signing of possible N-deal with China during President Asif Ali Zardari's forthcoming visit to China.

China has completed a 300MW nuclear power plant at Chashma and is setting up another there. There is also a broader understanding that Beijing will build six nuclear power plants with an installed capacity of 300MW each. Commenting on a query about US vice presidential candidate's comments on Pakistan and Iran during their debate, the spokesman said that the focus of the foreign ministers meeting was on bilateral issues and not on US ambitions pertaining to both the countries.

To a question that the foreign ministers of both the countries were of the view that four contentious issues regarding Iran, Pakistan, India (IPI) gas pipeline project have been settled out of five, he said that most important issue of pricing is being deliberated upon and will be settled in due course of time.

In reply to a query about the abduction of Chinese engineers he said that it is an unpleasant development as Pakistan's economy needs foreign investment for uplift projects. However, the government will share the information with the media about any new development on the issue.

The judicial committee formed for resolving the prisoner's issue between India and Pakistan is actively pursuing the case, he remarked in reply to another question. When asked that the Pakistan Senate delegation visiting US has been denied access to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and sought details about the delegation meeting with Dr Aafia Siddiqui, he said the delegation led by senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed met Dr Aafia on October 07 and the meeting lasted over two hours and forty minutes details of which were aired by some channels. However, the US authorities have expressed inability to arrange visit of Senate delegation to Guantanamo Bay.

At present five Pakistani prisoners are there and the rest have been repatriated for which the government is in regular contact with US State department, he added. To a question about President Zardari's statement in an interview to Wall Street Journal that India was never a threat to Pakistan, freedom fighters in Kashmir were terrorists and US drones attack Pakistani territory with the consent of government, he said the minister for Information has already issued a detailed statement giving government's position.

All these three issues were wrongly attributed to President Zardari by the Wall Street Journal, he maintained. To a question attributed to President Zardari about joint patrolling of Pak-Afghan border he said that the reports regarding joint patrolling are incorrect, as we have not received any proposal from Afghan side nor ministry of foreign affairs has taken decision on the issue, he concluded.
 
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Pakistan president to visit China, a valued ally
By Salman Masood
October 13, 2008

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: President Asif Ali Zardari is scheduled to visit China for four days starting Tuesday, in an effort to reinforce Pakistan's ties with a traditional ally at a time when relations with the United States have come under considerable strain.

President Zardari's visit comes barely two weeks after General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the country's military chief, made a five-day visit to China.

The high-profile visits signify the importance Pakistan attaches to China, a neighbor that is considered a close and reliable ally. The relationship between the countries is unlike the relationship between Pakistan and the United States, which has been rocky and often complicated, and based on short-term needs and expediency.

Arif Rafiq, an analyst of Pakistan politics, said, however, that "the two closely timed visits to China by President Zardari and Kayani are not part of a strategy by Pakistan to play Beijing and Washington off one another." Rather, he said the timing was coincidental.

Pakistan, facing economic difficulties, is looking to China for foreign aid and closer economic cooperation. Zardari will also push for cooperation to assist Pakistan's civilian nuclear program. To overcome an acute energy shortage, Pakistan relies on nuclear energy for power generation.

Zardari had announced he would visit China last month, soon after assuming office, following the precedent set by other leaders. But his visit was postponed, which drew strong criticism by nationalists and opinion writers. Many of them accused the government of downgrading relations with China while trying to placate the United States.

Pakistani officials deny these assertions.

"Pakistan's relations with the United States and China are not an either-or proposition," said Husain Haqqani, the Pakistani ambassador to Washington, who is thought to be the intellectual driving force behind the government's foreign policy.

"While some armchair analysts might look unfavorably upon Pakistan's simultaneous pursuit of close relations with China and the United States," he said, "policy makers in Washington and Beijing share interest in strengthening Pakistan and do not see our country as an area of contention between the two powers." Haqqani emphasized that during the 1970s, Pakistan acted as a bridge between the United States and China.

The early relationship between Pakistan and China stemmed in large part from an effort to provide a bulwark against India. Both countries have fought wars against India.

Pakistan's military ties with China remain strong, and China has assisted Pakistan in tank production, fighter aircraft manufacturing and naval technology.

But since the late 1990s, economic concerns have gained increased importance. Trade and energy have taken precedence in Pakistan's relations with China. Trade between the countries is more than $7 billion a year, and both sides have a target of $15 billion by 2010.
In recent years, Chinese investment in Pakistan has grown, with Beijing investing in heavy engineering, power generation, mining and telecommunications.

China has also helped Pakistan build a deepwater sea port in Gwadar, in Baluchistan Province. Apart from its economic value, analysts say, the port, in the country's southwest, has great strategic importance. It can be militarized in the future, providing China with a base to defend Gulf oil shipping lanes. India regards the port with discomfort.

In his first speech before the Parliament as president last month, Zardari vowed to take to greater heights what he called the "time-tested and all-weather friendship and strategic partnership with China."

He also said that Pakistan would not tolerate any violation of its sovereignty by "any power" — an allusion to the United States and its strikes inside Pakistani territory. American officials have expressed frustration with Pakistan's efforts to curb the Taliban and Al Qaeda in its restive, semiautonomous tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan.


At the same time, there are areas in which the Chinese have also expressed dissatisfaction. China has asked Pakistan to ensure and enhance the security of its citizens, who have been increasingly singled out in Pakistan.

Last month, two Chinese engineers working for a telecommunications company were abducted in the restive Swat region of the North-West Frontier Province. Local Taliban leaders claimed responsibility.

Last year, hard-line clerics of Red Mosque in Islamabad abducted seven Chinese masseuses working in a massage parlor. They were freed a day later, but the subsequent siege and military raid of the Red Mosque compound by Pervez Musharraf, then the president, was seen as a result of pressure from China.
 
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China has improved its relations with Russia and this is the time for us to develop friendly relations with Russia as well. This cooperation should not only be in the fields of energy but we must ensure some cooperation as far as WOT is concerned.

Well said. We wish to have friendly relations with all countries. They come halfway and we will meet them halfway.
 
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14 Oct 2008

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China are expected to sign a civil nuclear agreement during President Asif Ali Zardari's maiden state visit to the Communist nation, the country's envoy to Beijing said on Tuesday.

Both countries have always supported the peaceful use of civil nuclear energy and an agreement in this connection is expected to be signed during the President's visit to China which began on Tuesday, Ambassador Masood Khan said.

The two countries will ink several agreements in the fields of technology, agriculture and minerals. They will also sign an investment protocol to their existing free trade agreement to boost investments in Pakistan, he told Geo News channel.

Though Khan did not give details of the proposed civil nuclear pact, official sources were quoted by The Nation newspaper as saying that a nuclear deal with China would be the "main item" on Zardari's agenda.

An official told the newspaper that Zardari would seek a nuclear deal with China to meet Pakistan's increasing energy needs.

"What we need from our Chinese friends is the building of new nuclear reactors with their help and indications are already there that they will not disappoint us," the official said.

The government led by Zardari's Pakistan People's Party is under pressure from domestic political circles to seek a civil nuclear deal with China to match the atomic pact finalised between India and the US.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has urged the US to extend a similar deal to Pakistan and called on the world community not to discriminate between Pakistan and India in this regard.
 
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Pakistan already has a Nuclear Deal with China! India trying to raise expectations to portend failure!


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Its not like Pakistan and China started trading a few years ago. The Pakistan China trade has beeing going on for more than 5000 years. China and Pakistani cooperation runs deep in many areas–missiles, nuclear technology, clean coal energy, ports and shipping, education, industrial zones and of course defense and arms. Pakistan is the only wountry in the world with which China has a Free Trade Agrement (FTA). The deals signed are not for the world pres, but for a long lasting relationship. Pakistani Gwador to China links threaten Indian Chahbahar links to Kabul via Iran

In an orchestrated campaign, the Indian press is goading the world media into expecting a defiant China signing a deal with Pakistan to piss off the world. This is not about to happen. It is unnecessary, it is not called for and it is counterproductive to the China-Pakistan relationship.

Pakistan already has a nuclear deal with China. Pakistan and China work in a very different manner. China has already built Chasnupp 1 and is helping Pakistan build Chasnupp 2. China has also promised larger nuclear plants with Chasnupp 3. China also has assisted Pakistan in missile development. Signing deals under the floodlights of the foreign press is not the China-Pakistan style.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...gotiate_nuclear_deal/articleshow/3457950.cms#

ISLAMABAD: Asif Ali Zardari, the president-elect of Pakistan, will visit China next week to negotiate a nuclear deal similar to the one between India and the US, an official said on Monday.

“Pakistan is already in touch with China for the nuclear deal to meet its energy crisis and the talks would start during Zardari’s visit,” an official said on condition of anonymity.

The official said that under the proposed deal, China will supply nuclear material to Pakistan to meet its energy crisis.

“This has nothing to do with the US-India deal but that has certainly provided us a way out to meet our energy crisis,” he said.

For the last many years, Pakistan has failed to meet its growing energy needs and the situation has worsened since November 2007, with the country facing massive power cuts and adopting summer time to benefit the most from daylight and save energy.

“Of course it will take time to finalise the deal after going through its details but the initial talks would start during Zardari’s visit and a memorandum of understanding (MoU) may be signed for reaching an agreement,” said the official.

Zardari’s visit will coincide with the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games on September 17.

“Zardari will participate in the closing ceremony as well,” said the official.


Pakistan and China have a long history of close cooperation that started in early 50s and saw stronger ties during former prime minister and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s era.

As foreign minister in military dictator Ayub Khan’s government, Bhutto played an active role in bringing Pakistan and China closer when the US was distancing itself from Pakistan in the mid 1960s.

In the last three years, there have been 10 state visits by Pakistani officials to China. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was the last top official to visit China last month. In April, former president Pervez Musharraf has also visited the country.

As the controversial nuclear deal between India and the United States moves toward a final review in the U.S. Congress, Pakistan appears to be pushing for a similar deal (IANS) with China. The Bush administration won approval for the India arrangement before the Nuclear Suppliers Group earlier this month, and both Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have been actively lobbying for it at home and abroad. But Washington has ruled out any possibility (PTI) of cutting a similar deal with Pakistan. Many now expect China to step into the void.

Critics of the Indian nuclear deal worry that it may spark a nuclear arms race in South Asia. Michael Krepon of the Stimson Center says international proliferation experts already view past proliferation problems in Pakistan with concern.

Now closer relations between the United States and India, and particularly the potential nuclear deal, may force Islamabad to seek a counterbalance in Beijing. Souring relations between Washington and Islamabad over unilateral U.S. military action inside Pakistan’s tribal areas seems to have reaffirmed Pakistan’s longheld belief that the United States is an unreliable ally. As this interactive timeline explains, Pakistan and China grew closer in the 1960s as Washington and Islamabad began to part ways over handling regional issues. In particular, Pakistan felt betrayed after the United States cut off aid during its war with India in 1965. Pakistanis also felt spurned in the early 1990s, after Washington ceased using the country as a conduit for arming the anti-Soviet Afghan mujahedeen.

Since then, China has been the cornerstone of Pakistan’s foreign policy “because it was the only country that fully identified with its anti-India goals” (YaleGlobal), writes Willem van Kemenade, a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. As this Backgrounder details, Pakistan relies on China for major military and economic assistance, nuclear and ballistic missile technology, aircraft, and small arms. According to Thomas C. Reed, a former U.S. Air Force secretary, China probably helped Pakistan test a nuclear weapon (Physics Today) inside China in May 1990. Reed adds that this weapon was most likely based on a Chinese design.

Pakistan’s questionable record on nonproliferation may also hinder such a pact. Krepon says “there will still be great reluctance on the part of nuclear suppliers to treat Pakistan on the same footing as India.” In a recent press conference in New Delhi, U.S. Ambassador to India David C. Mulford ruled out a possible nuclear deal between China and Pakistan.
 
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its intresting report pakistan test nukes in chaina its new news for us
 
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14 Oct 2008

Sorry, but in the current climate it aint gonna happen(Most likely). A much more sensible thing may be to seek Chinese help in buiding one of the big Hydel Power units. Or see if there is any prospects of unconventional means of harnessing energy ie Solar, Wind or other that might alleviate our suffering in the near future.
Araz
 
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Pakistan, China ink 11 agreements
Wednesday, October 15, 2008





BEIJING: Pakistan and China Wednesday signed eleven agreements, MOUs and protocols to enhance bilateral cooperation on sound footing in diverse sectors including infrastructure, energy, telecommunication, agriculture, industry, minerals, trade, disaster relief and space technology.

The signing ceremony held, at the Great Hall of the People here, was witnessed by President Asif Ali Zardari and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao after an hour long one-on-one interaction between the two leaders and two-hours long delegation level talks.

The two presidents will issue a Joint Statement (Thursday) reflecting their resolve and commitment to carry the bilateral relations and cooperation to new heights.

President Hu Jintao hosted a banquet in honour of the President and his delegation at the Great Hall of the People after the delegations level parleys and agreements-signing ceremony.

Earlier both sides agreed to strengthen strategic partnership in all dimensions, reinvigorate the multi-faceted bilateral relations, intensify economic cooperation and foster people to people contacts in the coming years.

The two leaders and their delegations had wide-ranging discussions in warm and friendly atmosphere characteristic of long-standing ties between the two countries, Pakistan’s Ambassador in China Masood Khan told the media persons after the signing ceremony.

The talks emphasized upon retrieving the economic cooperation on strong footing in multi dimensions in line with the mutuality of interests and convergence of views in this regard.

The importance of President’s engagements on Wednesday is also marked by his threadbare interactions with the heads and chief executives of major Chinese companies operating in different sectors including banking, steel, mineral, cement, trade and other important segments of the economy.

The President’ visit to China has a special significance not only as President Zardari’s first official visit abroad, but also as the first interaction between Pakistan’s newly elected democratic leadership and China’s fourth Generation leadership that has overseen China’s dramatic economic development and progress.

During the talks, President Hu Jintao congratulated President Zardari on his election as President of Pakistan. He expressed confidence that the traditional brotherly relations between the two countries would be further beefed up under President Zardari’s leadership.

President Hu also thanked the people of Pakistan for their invaluable assistance in the wake of the devastating earthquake that hit China’s Wenchuat province earlier this year.

President Zardari offered his felicitations to the government and people of China on his tremendous success of the recently concluded Beijing Olympic games. He stated that the impressive manner in which the Olympic Games had been conducted underlined the giant strides made by the Chinese nation.

The President also congratulated his Chinese counterpart on the successful completion of the Shenzou VII Mission, terming it another milestone in China’s extraordinary scientific and technological advance.

The two leaders expressed satisfaction over the growth of Pakistan-China relations, since the diplomatic ties were first established between the two countries.

They agreed that Pakistan China friendship has truly stood the test of time and history and has emerged stronger with every important change in the international, regional and domestic environment.

Strong, multi-faceted and long-term relationship with China is not only the cornerstone of Pakistan’s foreign policy, but the fervent desire of its people. He conveyed the Pakistani people’s appreciation for the assistance rendered by China in Pakistan’s socio-economic development.


President Hu described Pakistan as China’s brotherly country and time-tested friend, said a news release issued on the occasion. He noted in particular the fraternal ties that exist between the peoples of the two countries.

Both President Zardari and President Hu appreciated the need for strengthening good neighbourly relations and expanding mutually beneficial cooperation. They stressed the importance of reinforcing efforts for deepening the Pakistan-China Strategic Partnership of Cooperation in the new circumstances.

It was agreed that increased trade and economic cooperation should be centerpiece of the bilateral relationship. It was accordingly decided to accelerate the implementation of the Five Year Development Programme on Economic Cooperation.

Hu Jintao reiterated China’s support for Pakistan’s efforts in safeguarding its sovereignty and territorial integrity. He condemned the recent terrorist atttacks in Pakistan and appreciated the sacrifices being made by Pakistan in its struggle against the global menace of terrorism, said the news release.

President Zardari reaffirmed Pakistan’s resolve to continue fighting terrorism and extremism. He said this fight was in Pakistan’s own national interest as the scourge of terrorism threatened Pakistan’s stability and its future as a prosperous and progressive Muslim state.
 
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Its a little bit strange that Our Media didnot talk too much abt Pak China Nuclear Deal now days but Our Neighbours :)
 
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Its a little bit strange that Our Media didnot talk too much abt Pak China Nuclear Deal now days but Our Neighbours :)

talking more on our nukes and isi is not good for usour media better never say any thing. our target is get nukes deal not adotisement of news
 
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