{"id":99460,"date":"2025-10-02T11:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T11:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/we-need-economic-not-a-martial-mindset-president-zardari\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T11:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T11:33:07","slug":"we-need-economic-not-a-martial-mindset-president-zardari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/we-need-economic-not-a-martial-mindset-president-zardari\/","title":{"rendered":"We need economic not a martial mindset: President Zardari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari, during an interview on Thursday, emphasized the need for an economic rather than a martial mindset, while praising China\u2019s remarkable development journey and the enduring \u201call-weather strategic cooperative partnership\u201d between Pakistan and China.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The president, in an interview with China Global Television Network during his recent visit to China, said that his visits to the country were meant for goodwill, bringing the support of the Pakistani people to China in both good and bad times.<\/p>\n<p>The president lauded China\u2019s leadership role in the East and praised President Xi Jinping\u2019s initiatives, particularly the Global Governance Initiative, which promotes\u00a0respect for each nation\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlobal governance means I can\u2019t walk into any other country. No other country can walk into me. They have to be respectful about my territory. I should be respectful about their territory,\u201d he commented.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit, the president also expressed admiration for Urumqi\u2019s development and the warm hospitality extended to him and his delegation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny part of China I go, I feel loved. And there\u2019s nothing to conquer one\u2019s heart rather than love. So, the Chinese love keeps bringing me back and forth,\u201d said the president, reflecting on his 17th visit to China, which included stops in Chengdu and Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>Underscoring the vitality of economic cooperation, he said, \u201cWe don\u2019t need a martial mindset. We need an economic mindset,\u201d and recalled the agreement with China for space technology to achieve self-sufficiency in the agriculture sector by increasing per-acre yield and water management.<\/p>\n<p>President Zardari said that besides being all-weather strategic cooperative partners, Pakistan and China were \u201cjoined at the hip\u201d too, referring to the stronger people-to-people linkages.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the countries locked by neighbors could utilize their geographical location for mutual benefit creating a win-win situation.<\/p>\n<p>President Zardari emphasized Pakistan\u2019s consistent support for China\u2019s positions on the global stage.\u00a0 \u201cWherever I go in the world, my first position is that \u2013 respect China. Give it what it deserves, the respect of the world, for its people, for its technology, for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the president noted that Pakistan\u2019s proximity to China offers significant strategic and economic benefits. He said Pakistan was the closest port to China and the port development generated jobs for youth and boosts regional growth by attracting more attention, trade, and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo there is great importance for me to make sure that Balochistan is safer\u2026 We can drive down to you and you can drive down to us. So, it\u2019s a great futuristic concept,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>President Zardari citing great potential in China\u2019s solar and wind expertise, and its future in hydrogen as the fuel of tomorrow, underscored bilateral cooperation in the sector.<\/p>\n<p>Citing his experience riding China\u2019s high-speed trains, He proposed a similar initiative in Pakistan, aiming to connect Karachi and Hyderabad with a high-speed rail that could reduce travel time from 2.5 hours to just 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>He suggested that the Sindh government would fund 60% of the project, while China would contribute 40% through soft loans and operational support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari, during an interview on Thursday, emphasized the need for an economic rather than a martial mindset, while praising China\u2019s remarkable development journey and the enduring \u201call-weather strategic cooperative partnership\u201d between Pakistan and China. The president, in an interview with China Global Television Network during his recent visit to China, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/arynews-1313565080.cos.ap-singapore.myqcloud.com\/zip-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/zardari-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}