Pakistan needs to diversify its partners: senior investment official

TOKYO – Pakistan “needs other partners” to balance its trade deficit with China and cut imports overall as it works to escape an economic crisis, the South Asian country’s top investment official has said.

Chaudhry Salik Hussain, federal minister for the Board of Investments, made the comment in an interview with Nikkei in Tokyo during a recent visit to Japan for talks with corporate executives and government officials. “We need to diversify because each country has different requirements, specific requirements,” he said.