By Masood Sattar Khan in Beijing
(Pakistan
News & Features Services)
A group of young parliamentarians from the ruling Pakistan
Muslim League (Nawaz) arrived in Changdu, the capital city of Southwest China Sichuan province, on April 21
MNA Mohammad Junaid Anwar Chaudhry is heading the delegation
that included members of the national and provincial assemblies.
The delegation comprising two women MNAs including Marvi
Memon, Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly for
Ministry of Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage and Mariyam
Aurangzeb.
At Chengdu ,
the visiting guests will inspect the party-building and the training of party
officials school run by the ruling Communist Party of China. The plan also included
addressing a seminar and a visit to Pakistan Study Centre.
The delegation’s schedule also included a visit to
industrial parks and besides Giant Panda Preservation Centre. On the second leg
of the tour of China , the
delegation will reach Beijing
on April 24.
The people of Sichuan have
special love and affection for the Pakistani people as in 2008 when massive
earthquake struck some counties of the province Pakistan had provided large
quantity of tents and also established a mobile hospital for the affected
people.
President Hu Jintao also visited Pakistan ’s mobile hospital and
lauded the service of the doctors and paramedic staff deployed there.
At that time, photographs of a Pakistani C13 cargo plane
carrying tents for the affected people and the crew inside the plane standing
to pave way to accommodate maximum space touched the hearts of the Chinese
people.
