The Acting President Dr Fehmida Mirza has said that the issue of the internally displaced people of Swat and Malakand (IDPs) was human catastrophe and it needed an unprecedented response from the international community and people of Pakistan to overcome it.
She asked the political forces and the religious scholars in the country to get united to successfully overcome the menace of extremism and terrorism in the country and the damage caused by it. The Acting President said this while talking to Rana Mohammad Iqbal, Acting Governor of Punjab and H E Luo Zhaoui, Ambassador of China, in separate meetings with them in the Parliament House, on Tuesday, says a press release received here from National Assembly Secretariat, Islamabad.
Talking to the Ambassador of China Luo Zhaui, she said that friendship between Pakistan and China was based on principles and understanding between the two countries and has withstood the test of time. she said that Pak-China relationship represented a model of co-existence of two countries with different ideologies, political systems and cultural backgrounds. The Acting President said that the strategic partnership between the two fraternal countries was seen as a major factor of stability in the region. She termed the Chinese model of development worth emulation for other developing countries.
The Chinese Ambassador Luo Zhaoui said that both China and Pakistan will continue supporting each other on international and regional issues and their friendship will grow stronger. Talking to the Acting Governor of Punjab Rana Mohammad Iqbal, the Acting President said that Pakistani nation has always been resilient and tolerant during the period of trial and added that the nation will help IDPs with the same spirit and zeal they displayed during the October 2005 earthquake.
The Acting governor said that the problem confronting the country needed to be tackled jointly. He said that Pakistan at this juncture could not afford internal bickering and urged the politicians to forge unity to face the challenges confronting the country.-PR
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