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China, Pakistan pledge deeper cooperation in trade

ndor with his face covered in cloth carries food items on a bicycle along a street amid dense smog in Lahore on December 30, 2025. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP)
 
ndor with his face covered in cloth carries food items on a bicycle along a street amid dense smog in Lahore on December 30, 2025. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP)


BEIJING - China and Pakistan have agreed ‌to deepen cooperation in industry, agriculture, and mining, and expand collaboration ​in trade and ‌investment, information technology, and cybersecurity, according to a ‌joint statement released by ‍Chinese ‌state media.
The ‍two countries also pledged to strengthen ⁠cooperation in the financial and banking sectors and to support each other ⁠on regional and international ⁠multilateral financial platforms, Xinhua ⁠news ‍agency reported.
They ‌called for more 'visible and verifiable' actions to dismantle and ‌eliminate all terrorist organisations entrenched in Afghanistan, the statement said.