ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Wednesday congratulated Chinese President Xi Jinping on his formal re-election as head of the Communist Party.
Congrats to #XiJinping on election as General Secretary of #CPC Central Committee & his new team. Pak-China friendship will blossom further.
— Ahsan Iqbal (@betterpakistan) October 25, 2017
The interior minister took to the Twitter and passed on good wishes to Xi Jinping and his team.
Pak-China friendship will blossom further,” Iqbal added.
Earlier in the day, President Xi Jinping was formally reappointed head of the Communist Party, commanding a new ruling council whose role will likely be eclipsed after he established himself as China´s most powerful leader in decades.
In a highly choreographed event, Xi led the new members of the elite Politburo Standing Committee in front of television cameras at Beijing´s massive Great Hall of the People after their selection by 204 party officials in a closed-door vote.
Xi, 64, secured a second five-year term as general secretary after his eponymous political theory was enshrined in the Communist Party constitution, giving him an inviolable mandate to rule and possibly positioning him to retain power for decades to come.
His reappointment capped a twice-a-decade congress of the Communist Party that gave him a freer hand to accomplish his ambition of turning China into a global superpower with a world-class military by mid-century.
Premier Li Keqiang, 62, also retained his seat on the seven-member committee.
