- President also congratulated Han Zheng on assuming office of Vice President
- PM expressed his desire to working closely with China
- He wished to advance Pakistan-China Strategic Cooperative Partnership.
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has extended his felicitation to Chinese President Xi Jinping on his unanimous re-election.
On his twitter handle, he said as China’s closest friend and all-weather partners, we look forward to working closely with President Xi to take relations to new heights.
He also congratulated Han Zheng on assuming the office of Vice President of China.
Meanwhile, in another tweet, the president also extended his warm felicitations to Ram Chandra Poudel on his election as the President of Nepal.
Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif congratulated Li Qiang on his election as new Premier of China.
On his Twitter handle, the prime minister expressed his desire to working closely with him to further advancing Pakistan-China Strategic Cooperative Partnership.
He said, “I am confident our bilateral relations will enter a new era of cooperation.”
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ON February 12, the Pakistan-China multinational maritime exercise in Karachi was expected to enhance the participants’ interoperability against instabilities and threats in the Indian Ocean region and safeguard vital international sea lines of communication and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
A grand opening ceremony for the five-day AMAN-23 exercise was held on Friday morning at the Pakistan Navy Dockyard, in front of the PNS Taimur, a Type 054A/P guided missile frigate that China built for Pakistan. Honor guards had raised the participating countries’ national flags, while balloons and pigeons representing peace were released into the skies.
Under the motto “Together for Peace”, this was the eighth edition of the AMAN exercises since 2007. It was divided into two phases: harbor and sea.
The harbor phase involved seminars, operational discussions, and professional demonstrations among other preparations, and the sea phase includes tactical maneuvers, anti-piracy, counterterrorism, search and rescue, live-fire shooting as well as air defense exercises, and will be followed by an international fleet review.
