Envoy launches book at IIU

Islamabad
The launch of ‘Chinese Soft Power Code,’ a book of Syed Hasan Javed, Pakistan’s ambassador to Germany, was held at International Islamic University (IIU) here.
The ceremony was attended by IIU Rector Dr. Masoom Yasinzai, Dean Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) Dr. Nabi Bux Jummani, IIU Deputy Dean FSS Dr. Saif Abbasi, Head of Department Politics and IR Dr. Manzoor Khan Afridi, Incharge of the department at female campus Dr. Noor Fatima, faculty members including Masood Khattak and Tauqeer Sargana.
Syed Hasan Javed, an officer of the Foreign Service of Pakistan, had spent about a decade in China as a diplomat and had also written a book ‘Chinese Made Easy: Conversational Chinese in a Hundred Lessons’.
“China’s progress has proved that populated countries can excel and influence the world, while development models are not necessary to be followed but dedication and implementation of values can pave the way for success of nations and same was done by the Chinese and now they have influence across the world,” he said.
In his book, Syed Hasan Javed has laid emphasis on importance of soft power while mentioning Chinese strategy and discussed that how it can play significant role to help a nation in playing effective role across the world. He was of the view that Chinese have continuity of history, while they maintained their culture alive in their practical lives. He added that Islam is a religion of rich attributes implementation of those can help in shining in a unique way among the nations of world. While lauding IIUI role and importance, he added that educational institutions such as IIUI are like a ray of hope for Muslims because these are the places which are going to pay to the coming generations in result of producing educated and well aware minds in future.
During his speech, while mentioning a ceremony of another book, he announced Rector IIU as an inspiration for narration of the present book. He added that Dr. Masoom had urged him to produce a book on the Chinese soft power code in that ceremony. The author also attributed China's rapid change in the past decades to the country's rich culture and soft power and this book had been launched in China as well, he said.
Dr. Masoom Yasinzai, talking on the importance of Pak-China relationship and its importance through economic corridor, announced that IIUI is mulling to launch a Chinese language degree program at university. He urged that 88 attributes mentioned by the author must be opted. He said that Chinese have made it true to be successful through hard work and honesty and same is required here at Pakistan he stressed. He also mentioned his recent talks with a high level Chinese delegation which discussed issues of promoting mutual cooperation through economic corridor. He said that IIU would love to welcome Chinese scholars because both the nations still should explore more in terms of mutual cooperation and support.