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Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Chinese ships arrive for wargame

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KARACHI, Nov 21: Two Chinese Navy ships arrived here on Monday to carry out first-ever joint exercise with the Pakistan Navy outside the Chinese territorial waters. This was announced in a press release of the ISPR (Navy) issued here on Monday.

It said that ships ‘Shenzhen’, a guided missile destroyer, and ‘Weishanhu’, an auxiliary tanker, were given unprecedented warm welcome upon their entry into Pakistani waters.

Rear Admiral Han Linzhi is commanding the Task Force. On their arrival at Karachi harbour, the ships fired a gun salute, it was responded by 21 gun salute from PN Marine base-PNS Qasim.

Chinese ships were escorted by PN Frigates. On the occasion, PN ships berthed in harbour were dressed overall in the traditional naval costumes and Pakistan Navy held a warm welcoming ceremony at the berth.

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