Islamabad: Pakistan is making efforts to sell small arms and fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s advisor on national security and foreign affairs said in an interview with the BBC.
Sartaj Aziz said that like any country with an arms industry, Pakistan was trying to sell its arms and there was nothing dubious about Saudi Arabia’s interest in purchasing weapons from Pakistan.
He reiterated Pakistan’s neutral stance on the civil war in Syria.
Aziz said Pakistan wanted to restore balance in relations with Saudi Arabia and Iran, which he said had been disturbed during the past five years.
He said not a single Saudi minister visited Pakistan during the tenure of the previous government but after the Pakistan Muslim League, led by Nawaz Sharif, came into power last year, the government and military leadership of both countries had exchanged visits.
The advisor added that he hoped Prime Minister Sharif would visit Iran in May or June this year in line with promoting peace in the region.
