Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari has said that there is an
opportunity both for Pakistan and China to reshape their exemplary
friendship into a modern twenty-first century partnership.
This
he said during his visit to the Chinese embassy to participate in
China’s National Day Celebrations on Tuesday. He said that that
together, the two nations have supported each other through thick and
thin and moved ahead. The time-tested friendship between Pakistan and
China would travel through generations after generations.
He
said that China has made remarkable progress in every field of life
including science & technology, commerce, social & economic
development, arts craft & culture. China continues to break barrier
after barrier, cross one threshold after another and Pakistan feels
proud on her success.
“We also celebrate the friendship between
our two peoples and it is not a coincidence that 2011 was also being
celebrated in both China and Pakistan as the Year of Sino-Pak
friendship”, Zardari added.
President said that it is a matter
of great pride that the foundations of historic Pak-China partnership
were laid by the founder of Pakistan People’s Party, Shaheed Zulfiqar
Ali Bhutto, and was carried forward resolutely by Shaheed Benazir
Bhutto.
He also thanked the government and people of China for
their timely assistance for the flood victims in Sindh. Expressing hope
that the people of Pakistan would be able to overcome this calamity
with the assistance of friends in the international community, the
President said that Chinese help was the mark of a true friend, for
which, the Pakistani people were truly grateful.
The President
said that October 1, 1949 marked not only the birth of the Peoples
Republic, but also the birth of a miracle, a brilliant chapter in the
story of human kind. This Chinese miracle continues to unfold to this
day, he said. Online
