January 10, 2025 02:52 pm (IST)

Make this your homepage

South Asia / Southeast Asia / China

Los Angeles wildfire toll climbs to 10, thousands of structures destroyed | 8 labourers still trapped in Assam's flooded mine even after 3 days of rescue ops | SC refuses to hear petitions seeking review of its same-sex marriage judgement, says there is 'no error' | 'They should wind up the alliance': Omar Abdullah on AAP-Congress fight over Delhi elections | Pune woman killed by her colleague in full public view for not paying back his money, no one intervenes | Los Angeles wildfire leaves 5 dead, forces 1 lakh including celebs to flee, Hollywood hills ablazed | PM Modi condoles death of six people in Tirupati stampede incident | Days after condemning Pak airstrikes, India in a first engages with Afghanistan's Taliban regime | 6 dead in stampede near Tirupati temple during token distribution to offer prayers | Prominent journalist-film producer Pritish Nandy dies of cardiac arrest at 73

Pakistan-China

Image: Unsplash

Pakistani, Chinese singers release music video to celebrate 70 years of Pak-China diplomatic relations

By South Asia Monitor/IBNS | @indiablooms | May 27, 2021, at 02:03 am

#Pakistan #China #PakistanChinaSinging

Pakistani singer Ali Zafar has released a short music video in collaboration with Chinese singer Xiang Minqi to commemorate 70 years of Pakistan-China diplomatic relations.

"On the 70th anniversary of the development of diplomatic relations between China and Pakistan, I learned some Chinese and sang about our friendship," wrote Zafar in a social media post.

The song is about love and friendship, using the blossoming of gardenia as a metaphor for the relationship the two countries share. It ends with the sentiment that "love is the most beautiful language."

In a later tweet, Zafar shared a poster designed to mark the occasion.

Pakistan's ambassador to China, Moin ul Haque also announced the song, saying, "'You stole my heart', a special duet by Ali Zafar and Xiang Minqi paying a tribute to the special, unique and eternal friendship between China and Pakistan."

While many praised the move, some Twitter users criticized it, calling it "propaganda" and highlighted the plight of the Uyghur Muslims in China, Dawn reported.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.