BEIJING: Islamabad wants to talk to the next US administration about boosting investment in FATA, Chinese state media quoted President Asif Ali Zardari as saying.
The official Chinese daily quoted Zardari as saying Islamabad would encourage investment in the troubled regions and try to win more preferential treatment for their products in U.S. markets. Zardari ended a four-day visit to China on Friday.
“We are looking for a dialogue when the new U.S. administration comes into being. And we are going to work firmly for the signing of a FTA (Free Trade Agreement) for these regions,” Zardari said.
But Zardari said that militancy in Pakistan was it’s “own problem”, the paper said. “It is basically our own war. It has been wrongly described as America’s war,” Zardari said.
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