The President of China Xi Jinping
is expected to be the chief guest at the annual military parade, an event that
Pakistan is going to hold after a long gap of seven years. The event will be
carried out on the national day of the country on 23 March.
The venue for the event has not
been finalized yet but it is expected to be held somewhere near Islamabad.
The list of attendees will
comprise of the heads of the three branches of the armed forces and several
high-profile government officials.
The announcement about Pakistan's
resuming the parade that was last held in 2008 when General Musharraf was the
President, came a few days after the US President Obama's visit to India; Obama
was the chief guest at the Republic Day Parade on 26 January.
President Obama's visit was seen
as a emergence of a new alliance in the Asia-Pacific region, a move to counter
China's spreading influence in the region. China was irked. India's external
affairs minister Shushma Swaraj's China visit this week is deemed to be move to
address the grievance of the neighboring country. The news of PM Modi's visit
to China is expected to better the mutual relations of two big powers of the
region.
Many analysts in Pakistan are not
seeing President Xi Jinping's breaching the protocol to meet Shushma Swaraj on
Monday in positive light. However, President Xi has expressed his faith in
Indo-China relationship. "I have full confidence in India-China relations
and I believe that new progress will be achieved in growing this bilateral
relationship in this New Year."
India's relationship, after
President Xi's visit in September last year, with China seems to be on the
right track.
Pakistan considers China its all-weather
friend. China provides Pakistan with economics, military, political and
diplomatic, and technological help; a diplomatic move to keep India in check.
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