BATTAGRAM: The Battagram tehsil municipal administration has installed panaflexes and banners at prominent places, highlighting the 70-year-long diplomatic relations and friendship between Pakistan and China.

On the directives of the secretary local council board, the TMA staff has installed banners and panaflexes at prominent places along the CPEC route from Thakot to Kakti tunnel area, inscribed with different friendship messages and highlighting the two countries’ services for each other.

A TMA official told Dawn that China was a time-tested friend of Pakistan as it always stood by it at every critical time.

He added that all mega projects, including the Karakoram Highway and now the CPEC project, had gone a long way in development of the country thanks to the Chinese help.

He said a Chinese couple had got married in the Kuzabanda camp here according to the Pakistani tradition to show solidarity, love and respect for the local culture.

Published in Dawn, May 25th, 2021