"Instead of keeping qualitative changes in the existing regional scenario, good neighbourly policy is a viable option for sustainable development and stable security order."
This was the consensus of opinion of the scholars from Pakistan, China and India on the conclusion of the one-day seminar on "Pakistan- China relations in changing regional and global scenario" on Saturday.
The scholars stressed the need for establishing a strategic forum for identifying further avenues of co-operation, and recommended that the Pakistan's status in Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SOC) might be raised from observer status to full membership.
The scholars also suggested that the trade relations between the states and regions were influenced by the anticipated benefits to achieve the target of balance of the trade with China.
A professional attitude be applied in accelerating the Pakistani export and attracting Chinese private sector to invest in Pakistan, they added.
They also emphasised the need for cultural programmes and trade exhibitions, adding academic visits be arranged to extend people-to-people relations between the two countries.
The scholars were of the opinion that in the wake of growing Sino-India rapprochement and multilateral co-operation between China, Russia and Central Asian Republics refocused on national interests, priorities in accordance with our capability and possibility of our national power.
The scholars also suggested that Pakistan and China's adopted combine strategy in checkmating the menace of terrorism, and stressed the need for providing feedback to the policy-makers and foreign office by publishing the proceeding of this seminar.
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