Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwest China - Recent (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Interview in progress
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistani President (partially overlaid with shot 3):
"[We are] All-weather ironclad brothers. But I put it again that we are joined on the hip also. That's how close we are. And that's an opportunity. There's a concept that countries which are locked in by neighbors and they're geographically locked in, they can't move, or they can't do things. And then there is another concept of utilizing the countries which you have as neighbors to your input, to your advantage, to their advantage because it's a win-win game all the time."

FILE: Islamabad, Pakistan - Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
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3. Bilingual sign reading "Long Live Pak-China Friendship"
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4. Aerial shot of national flag of Pakistan
5. Aerial shot of city view

Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwest China - Recent (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistani President (partially overlaid with shot 7):
"Young people have to be taught this and told about this that how we can be a small country, we were and we are, but even then in the West, that time we had influence. The first time Kissinger comes to China, he comes from Pakistan. It was a secret mission, not secret anymore. But he flew to China from Pakistan. So, we've always been trying to help Chinese positions. Wherever I go in the world, my first position is to respect China, give the respect of the world it deserves for its people, for its technology, for everything."

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FILE: Islamabad, Pakistan - Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
7. National flags of Pakistan, China
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FILE: Islamabad, Pakistan - Feb 22-23, 2018 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
8. City view

FILE: Islamabad, Pakistan - June 2024 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
9. Various of traffic

Neighboring countries as close as China and Pakistan stand to benefit from win-win cooperation, said Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, who has also expressed long-standing respect for China's positions in global affairs.

Zardari paid a four-day visit to northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region from Sept 18 to 21.

In an exclusive interview with China Global Television Network (CGTN) in Urumqi, which was released on Thursday, Zardari said the strong relations with China enables Pakistan to learn from its close neighbor to advance national development.

"[We are] All-weather ironclad brothers. But I put it again that we are joined on the hip also. That's how close we are. And that's an opportunity. There's a concept that countries which are locked in by neighbors and they're geographically locked in, they can't move, or they can't do things. And then there is another concept of utilizing the countries which you have as neighbors to your input, to your advantage, to their advantage because it's a win-win game all the time," said Zardari.

The president said his country stands by China's side in global affairs, as he recalled the July 1971 trip to China by then U.S. national security advisor Henry Kissinger that laid the groundwork for President Richard Nixon's visit to China and the normalization of Sino-U.S. relations.

"Young people have to be taught this and told about this that how we can be a small country, we were and we are, but even then in the West, that time we had influence. The first time Kissinger comes to China, he comes from Pakistan. It was a secret mission, not secret anymore. But he flew to China from Pakistan. So, we've always been trying to help Chinese positions. Wherever I go in the world, my first position is to respect China, give the respect of the world it deserves for its people, for its technology, for everything," he said.