A top Pakistani security official, while speaking to News18, rubbished a Financial Times’ Friday report that advisers to Pakistani army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir have approached U.S. officials with an offer to build and run a port on the Arabian Sea.

Citing a plan seen by the newspaper, the FT had said that it envisages American investors building and operating a terminal to access Pakistan’s critical minerals in the town of Pasni, according to the FT. Pasni is a port town in Gwadar District in the province of Balochistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran

“The FT story has flaws and is based on speculation. No port near Gwadar has been offered to someone else. China is more important than anyone else," sources told News18.

“Pakistan is committed to the China-Pakistan Economic C

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