Pakistan-China friendship ‘flourishing with strength’

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Sunday its time-tested friendship with China had flourished with strength and remained unaffected amid a changing regional and global environment.

“Indeed time-tested Pakistan-China friendship has flourished from strength to strength, unaffected by vicissitudes of time and changes in regional and global environment,” the Foreign Office said in a tweet after the conclusion of the visit of Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi to China.

Qureshi returned to Islamabad early on Sunday morning after his two-day official visit to China where he held meetings with Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and reaffirmed the resolve to further strengthen ties.

“Both Pakistan and China remain firm in resolve to further strengthen this All-Weather Strategic Cooperative Partnership,” the Foreign Office said.

The spokesperson of Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) also tweeted regarding the meeting between the two leaders.

“It proved again that China and Pakistan are the most trustworthy good neighbours, good friends and good brothers to each other,” it tweeted.

The Chinese MFA also described the friendship between China and Pakistan as unbreakable. “The friendship between China and Pakistan is unbreakable,” it said.