http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Pakistan-says-wants-China-to-build-naval-base/articleshow/8496915.cmsISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Saturday it wanted China to build it a naval base, in the latest sign of moves to strengthen ties with Beijing as relations with Washington falter.
The announcement from Pakistan's defence minister came a day after Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani returned from a four-day visit to China, Islamabad's biggest arms supplier.
"We would be ... grateful to the Chinese government if a naval base is ... constructed at the site of Gwadar for Pakistan," defence minister Ahmad Mukhtar said is a statement, referring to a deep-water port in Pakistan's southwest.
The statement did not say whether Pakistan had asked China to build the base at the port in Baluchistan province.
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