BEIJING: Pakistan’s Ambassador to China Moin-ul-Haque Monday visited the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) office and appreciated the national flag carrier’s active role in promoting people-to-people exchanges, bilateral trade, and tourism between Pakistan and China.
“PIA is very much active in promoting people-to-people exchanges, trade, and tourism between our two countries,” Haque remarked during his visit.
The ambassador said that PIA was one of the largest and very important airlines of Pakistan and its relationship with China was very historic.
PIA was the first non-communist airline that started commercial operations in China in the 1960s.
He said that in recent months and recent times during the pandemic, PIA played the central role in transporting COVID-19 vaccines from China to Pakistan, adding, “the main inoculation drive in Pakistan is based on the Chinese vaccines.”
The ambassador said that to date, the PIA had transported almost 100 million doses of…