Friendship with Pak will always remain 'rock-firm', says China as it congratulates caretaker PM Kakar
China on Monday asserted that its «ironclad friendship» with Islamabad will always remain «rock-firm and unbreakable» irrespective of any changes in the international landscape and the domestic situation in Pakistan, as it congratulates Anwarul Haq Kakar on his appointment as caretaker prime minister. Earlier in the day in Islamabad, 52-year-old Kakar, an ethnic Pushtun leader who is considered close to the powerful military, was sworn in as Pakistan's caretaker prime minister to head a neutral political set-up to run the cash-strapped country and conduct the next general elections.
«China stands ready to work with Pakistan to advance our all-weather strategic cooperative partnership, build an even closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future in the new era, and bring more benefits to the two countries and two peoples,» Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said in a press conference here. «China congratulates Mr Kakar on his appointment as caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan.
No matter how the international landscape and the domestic situation in Pakistan may change, the ironclad friendship between China and Pakistan will always remain rock-firm and unbreakable,» he said in reply to a question from a Pakistani journalist. Kakar, an ethnic Pushtun from the Balochistan province, who was unanimously chosen as Pakistan's interim premier was serving as a senator but resigned from the post after his appointment as prime minister.
He became the 8th interim prime minister of Pakistan. Replying to a question on the terrorist attack on a military convoy carrying Chinese workers in the port city of Gwadar in the restive Balochistan province on Sunday, Wang said China strongly condemns the terrorist act and has asked
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