PM Shehbaz congratulates Xi for winning 3rd consecutive term.

ISLAMABAD -- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday felicitated China's President Xi Jinping on securing a third five-year term.

'The confidence of the Chinese people and parliament in President Xi Jinping is a recognition of his extraordinary leadership skills,' the Prime Minister said in a message of greetings on behalf of the government and people of Pakistan.

President Xi Jinping was voted unanimously by the People National People's Congress (NPC), as the president of China for the next five years.

The precedent-breaking win tightens his grip as the country's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong.

Shehbaz Sharif said, 'President Xi Jinping has become a symbol of China's development and people's prosperity. Under his leadership, China has become the world's top economic power and this...

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