Posted on 05/31/2011 6:15:09 PM PDT by milestogo
Pakistan, China friendship a lush tree: Ambassador Khan PDF Print E-mail BEIJING, MAY 31 (APP): Premier Wen Jiabao has wisely described the friendship between Pakistan and China as a “lush tree with deep roots and thick foliage, full of vigour and vitality,” said Pakistan’s Ambassador to China, Masood Khan.The Chinese Premier made these remarks on the morning of December 19, while addressing a packed session of Pakistani parliament during his official visit to Pakistan.“The sentimental bond between our peoples is thus a constant image.An aura of warmth and affection permeates our relations. Diplomats in Beijing and around the world hear with some amusement the poetic expressions suggesting that Pakistan-China friendship is all-weather and time-tested; and that this relationship is taller than the Himalayas and deeper than oceans; and that it is stronger than steel, and sweeter than honey,” wrote Ambassador Khan in an article published in Beijing Review’s special supplement on the 60th anniversary of Pakistan-China friendship. He said that “Some do offer envious compliments and ask about the secret of the longevity and depth of this relationship.The people of Pakistan and China evoke these poetic images with sincerity of conviction and feel that they still do not fully capture the depth of their feelings towards each other.” To make an attempt to figure out the secret of this unique bond, Ambassador Khan said, “the first crucible of our friendship has been history. Scholars and students are familiar with recent history of Pakistan-China relations. But our relations go far back. It is obvious that the territories of Pakistan and China are joined by mountains and rivers so-called geographical fault lines. Pakistan and China also share civilizational fault lines. Monks and envoys traversed the daunting heights of the Karakorum, the Hindukush and the Himalayas to connect the Gandhara and the Indus Valley civilizations with the Chinese civilization”. He said that Fa Xian and Xuan Zang, in the fourth and seventh centuries respectively, were not deterred by the inaccessible altitudes of these mountain ranges. Many scholars from the territory that is now Pakistantraveled to China to understand and imbibe the glorious civilization of China.So, cross-fertilization of our civilizations took place much before the modern era.
Wonder if it’ll be so lush next time China cracks down on a bunch of Muslim militants in their inimitably cruel way.
Good. Let China prop up that worthless dump instead of us.
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