Pakistan, Jan. 29 -- Pakistan on Wednesday said it was seeking Chinese investment to develop its vast but underexploited mineral resources, pitching a strategy focused on value addition, processing and export-oriented industrial clusters as it looks to turn mining into a pillar of long-term economic growth.

At the Pakistan-China Mineral Cooperation Forum in Islamabad, senior ministers said the government's priority was to move beyond the export of raw minerals by developing processing plants, smelters and mineral-based industrial clusters linked to Special Economic Zones (SEZs), according to reports in state-run Radio Pakistan and the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP).

Pakistan holds significant reserves of copper, gold, coal and other...