Pak, China friendship entering new avenues, says DM Chief
By Uzma Zafar

ISLAMABAD— The President and Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Mail and Chairman Pak-China Media Friendship Association Mr. Makhdoom Babar has said that Pak-China friendship was entering new avenues of love, excellence and trust as there has been a great development in direction of knowing each other more and more amongst the peoples of both the neghbouring nations during the past few years. Speaking at the occasion of a banquet hosted in honour of a four member delegation of China Radio International(CRI), led by Mr.
He Jincao, director South Asia of CRI, Mr. Makhdoom said that during the past 8 to 10 years, the interaction between peoples of Pakistan and China had increased amazingly and there had been a great deal of desire on both sides to know more and more about each other’s socio-economic and politico-cultural values. He said that with the presence of able and visionary leadership both at Beijing and Islamabad, the decade old friendship between the peoples has transformed in to a bond of love, going much beyond just friendship.
He said the credit of the increasing people to people contact clearly goes to the policies of the leaderships at Islamabad and Beijing as both the government, during the past five to seven years took a lot of initiatives to promote friendship and enhance people to people contact.
Mr. Makhdoom observed that media had to play a very vital and pivotal role in enhancing further this friendship and people to people contact. He said that media was the most effective tool to enhance each other’s cultural and social values, resulting into bringing the people from both sides even closer. He said that despite the fact that the Chinese media was delivering with a great responsibility and professionalism, yet, it lacked in giving as much as possible information to its people about Pakistan and Pakistanis.
He urged upon the Chinese media, particularly the Chinese language media to play more effective role in this direction as it was not their professional obligation but was obligatory as part of a reciprocity as well. He said that The Daily Mail was fulfilling its obligations in this regard by printing one whole page about china every day, enabling more and more people to know more and more about China.. he lauded the role of CRI and said that CVRI had very rightly noticed the need of media endeavors for promotion of Pak-China relations, long ago, and thus started its Urdu service. He offered all the support of The Daily Mail for assisting CRI in this direction. Mr. Makhdoom also proposed a few joint ventures between CRI and The Daily Mail which were very much welcomed by the CRI delegation.
On the occasion, Mr. He Jincao, the head of the CRI delegation, highly appreciated the efforts of Mr. Makhdoom for the promotion of Pak-China ties. Terming Mr. Makhdoom as the best friend of China he said that people like Mr. Makhdoom on both sides could do a lot for the further promotion of the relations between two nations through the sincere efforts and untiring hard work. He also supported full support of CRI to The Daily Mail for the promotion of relations and for enhancing people to people contact.