Pakistani Students Clinch Top Slots in Music, Speech Competitions in China
Beijing: A group of Pakistani students on Tuesday clinched top positions in music, speech and photography competitions, organized within the framework of the Second Silk Road and Young Dreams, an international gala event of youth exchange.
Over 30 young Pakistani students from educational institutions in China and Pakistan took part in the competitions and admirably displayed their talent during the course of the three-day event.
Nearly 300 contestants from 70 countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Oceania participated in the event, organized to welcome the forthcoming Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, scheduled to be held later this month.
The students of Pakistan Embassy College Beijing (PECB) won five contests in the speech, photography and music categories. Abdul Rehman, a talented and young student of PECB, secured the first position in the speech contest while Islam Khallili and Thembekeli secured third place in the photography competition.
In the music category, Maaz Ali and Fareen Maharver were declared winners of the third position. Bilawal Khan, Istahsan Arshad and Ronica Wilson, students of the Superior College Lahore, who were sponsored by their college to participate in the contest, secured top slots in different categories of the music competitions.
Cultural Consular, Raheel Tariq, who provided a platform to the Pakistani youth to demonstrate their talent, informed that most of the students participating in the event, were studying in China while some contestants had come from Pakistan.
“We informed our students in China, particularly those studying in educational institutions in Beijing, about the event and invited them to participate,” he added.
Raheel Tariq remarked that participation of Pakistani youth in the contest would cement closer cultural ties and promote people-to-people contacts between the all-weather friends and iron brothers.
“This international event has also provided our youth with an ample opportunity to display their talent at the international level and introduce Pakistani culture to the international audience,” he added.
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