PCI hosts CICIR delegation from China

Date : December 13, 2012

On Friday, 7th December, the Pakistan-China Institute received a delegation from the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), and held a meeting chaired by Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed (Chairman PCI). The delegation was led by Dr. Hu Shisheng (Director Institute of South & Southeast Asian and Oceania Studies), and included Dr Fu Xiaoqiang (Director Center for Counter-Terrorism Studies), Mr Wang Shida (Institute of South & Southeast Asian and Oceania Studies) and Mr Han Liqun (Assistant Research Professor Institute of World Political Studies). The CICIR members had been on a visit to Pakistan as guests of the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI). Also present at the meeting were IPRI members Mr Muhammad Munir (Senior Research Fellow), Mr Aftab Hussain (Assistant Research Officer), and Major (Retd.) Rao Abdul Rehman (Administrative Officer). PCI and CICIR made a brief presentation of their respective projects and discussed areas of future cooperation between both institutes.