KARACHI, Feb 11: The out-going Chinese ambassador to Pakistan, Lu Shulin, accompanied by his wife, visited Karachi University and met Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Zafar Saeed Saifi.

A Karachi University spokesman said on Monday that the envoy had been a student of Karachi University’s Department of Urdu in the 1960s.

Speaking in Urdu, the Chinese ambassador recalled his teachers Dr Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Dr Abul Lais Siddiqui, Dr Abul Khair Kashfi, Dr Farman Fatehpuri and Dr Abdul Qayyum Qureshi, and said they used to treat the Chinese students with care and love and provided them a lot of guidance.

He said memories of his student life at Karachi University were the biggest asset of his life and that was why before returning home he was visiting his alma mater.

Lu Shulin on the occasion described Pakistan as his second homeland.

Later, he visited the university hostels where he had stayed during his student days.

The envoy also inquired about the language laboratory being set up at Karachi University.

On the desire of KU Vice-Chancellor to teach the Chinese language at this lab, Lu Shulin assured that the Consulate General of China in Karachi would extend every assistance required for it.

Later, the envoy met the head of the research institutes at Karachi University as well as deans of the faculties.

He also visited Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan Institute of Genetics Engineering, Institute of Pharmaceuticals and the HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry.

The envoy was accompanied by the Chinese consul-general in Karachi, Lin Shang Li.—APP