ISLAMABAD: A Russian diplomat said on Friday that prospects of defence cooperation between Pakistan and his country were bright.Speaking at a discussion titled ‘Pakistan-Russia Bilateral Relations’, the political counsellor of the Russian Embassy in Islamabad Andrey Shabalin said the two countries were working on how to kickstart their defence cooperation.
Shabalin cautioned that the process for laying the basis for long-term defence cooperation could be a protracted one. “The good thing is that we have at least begun working on that,” he said.
Besides defence cooperation, the Russian official listed the various projects in which Moscow could be interested.
These include the conversion of the Muzaffargarh Thermal Power Station to coal; rehabilitation and expansion of Pakistan Steel Mills.
Pak has to form alliances with Saudi, Iran, Russia and China. Diplomacy has to greatly improve.