{"id":9715,"date":"2022-08-01T13:31:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=9715"},"modified":"2022-08-01T13:31:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:31:22","slug":"pak-army-pla-relationship-to-contribute-towards-safeguarding-collective-interests-coas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pak-army-pla-relationship-to-contribute-towards-safeguarding-collective-interests-coas\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak Army &#038; PLA relationship to contribute towards safeguarding &#8216;collective interests&#8217;: COAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pak Army &amp; PLA relationship to contribute towards safeguarding &#8216;collective interests&#8217;: COAS.\u00a0 Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Monday said that the relationship between China&#8217;s million-plus Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) and the Pakistan Army will continue to contribute to safeguarding the &#8216;collective interests&#8217; of the two nations.<\/p>\n<p>The army chief, speaking at the 95th anniversary of the founding of the PLA which was commemorated at the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi, said the Pak-China relationship was &#8216;unique and robust&#8217; and has proven its resilience in the face of challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassador of China to Pakistan Nong Rong, officials from the Chinese Embassy and officers from the tri-services of Pakistan attended the event, said the statement released by the <a href=\"https:\/\/ispr.gov.pk\/\">Inter-Services Public Relations<\/a> (ISPR).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/coas-appeals-us-to-help-expedite-pakistan-imf-deal.html\">COAS appeals US to help expedite Pakistan-IMF deal<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the occasion, the ambassador thanked the COAS for hosting the reception on the eve of PLA\u2019s anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>He said that China and Pakistan were \u201ciron brothers, all-weather friends and strategic partners\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Rong furthered that the recent meeting of the China-Pakistan Joint Committee of Cooperation held in China set up an important platform for military collaboration which would serve effectively for military-to-military relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The COAS felicitated the PLA and lauded its role in China\u2019s defence, security and nation-building.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting various facets of the deep-rooted ties between the two states, militaries and the people, the COAS also said the Pakistan-China relationship is unique and robust and had proven its resilience in the face of challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pak Army &amp; PLA relationship to contribute towards safeguarding &#8216;collective interests&#8217;: COAS.\u00a0 Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Monday said that the relationship between China&#8217;s million-plus Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) and the Pakistan Army will continue to contribute to safeguarding the &#8216;collective interests&#8217; of the two nations. The army chief, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[673,3425,457],"class_list":["post-9715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-coas","tag-ghq","tag-ispr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}