LAHORE, May 22 (APP): The Punjab Education Department has announced summer vacation from May 24 in educational institutions in the province.

Summer vacation will start from May 24 and continue up to
August 14. Earlier, the Education department had fixed June 1 for summer vacation. However, keeping in view the hotness, and difficulties of children and their parents, the Education department has decided to start summer vacations from May 24.

Provincial Minister for Education Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan expressed these views while addressing a press conference at the committee room of Schools Education Department, on Sunday.

ISLAMABAD, May 22 (APP): National Highway Authority (NHA) is taking all possible measures to ensure the early completion of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

An NHA official told APP Sunday that CPEC was the name of building roads from Khunjerab to Gwadar. “The CPEC project, comprises modern highway and railway transportation system linking Kashgar in West China to Khunjerab in the north and onwards to Karachi and Gwadar in the south of Pakistan through multiple routes”, he added.

He said a number of sections of this mega project have been completed and remaining sections are under construction.

LAHORE, May 21 (APP): Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday said that Pak-China friendship was unprecedented in the world.

Friendly relations between Pakistan and China were more than ordinary relationship between the two countries and could not be described in words, he added.

The Chief Minister was addressing a function at the 65th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Pakistan and China at Chief Minister’s Office, here.

ISLAMABAD, May 21 (APP): President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang have extended to the Pakistani leadership their warm wishes on the occasion of 65th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Pakistan.

President Xi Jinping, in his message, said that China and Pakistan were all-weather strategic partners of cooperation.

Over the past 65 years since the establishment of the diplomatic relations, China-Pakistan relations had stood the tests of the changes of the international and domestic situations and made headway constantly, he said.

ISLAMABAD, May 21 (APP): Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Chaudhry Muhammad Barjees Tahir on Saturday said China, being the time-tested friend, had always supported Pakistan’s principled stance on the longstanding Kashmir issue with India.

“Pakistan-China friendship is higher than Himalayas, deeper than oceans and sweater than honey,” he said in an interview with APP in connection with the 65th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Pakistan and China.

China, he said, had effectively helped Pakistan in diverse fields including setting up of basic infrastructure to overcome energy crisis, economic development and supported Pakistan’s view points on different international issues at every fora.

LAHORE, May 21 (APP): China’s economic growth is benefitting Pakistan’s economy, as Chinese interest here is to attract foreign investors in this country.

This was stated by Shah Faisal Afridi, President Pak-China Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PJCCI) in a exclusive interview with APP.

Shah Faisal Afridi said reliable and steadfast friendship between China and Pakistan is considered as an example all over the world and its economic benefits for Pakistan are getting more imminent day by day.