Chinese experts team, relief goods arrive Islamabad

By Masood Sattar Khan (
Pakistan News & Features Services)

A plane onboard a group of medical experts and material, used to fight coronavirus (COVID-19), alongwith goods, has arrived Pakistan from China. 

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has provided the emergency anti-epidemic materials assistance to the Pakistan Army and dispatches an expert team, officials of the Chinese Embassy in Islamabad informed on April 24. 

In order to actively implement the important concept of building a community of human destiny advocated by President Xi Jinping, the Chinese People's Liberation Army has been vigorously participating in the domestic fight against the new coronary pneumonia epidemic while actively carrying out international cooperation in the fight against epidemics.

At the request of the Pakistani Army and, with the approval of the Central Military Commission, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army sent an Air Force aircraft to Islamabad on April 24 to provide emergency assistance to the Pakistani army for a number of emergency prevention and control materials needed by the Pakistani side. 

The Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan, Yao Jing, General Nadeem, Chairman of the Pakistani Army Federation, and Lieutenant General Hamed, coordinator of the National Epidemic Prevention Command and Action Center greeted them upon arrival.