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[FONT=Courier New]well the cubans are a decent sort. but when will see paksitan shift from the influence of the USA?
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[FONT=Courier New]No Country Has Made a Greater Impression
Pakistani Federal Relief Commissioner,
Major General Farooq Khan, speaks at a
Cuban field hospital in Mansehra
Juvenal Balan Neyra
Special Correspondent
[email protected]
No country has made a greater impression on Pakistan, from Shakote to Banna
Alai, than Cuba, said Pakistani Maj. Gen. Farooq Khan, Federal Relief
Commissioner, in a meeting held at the Cuban field hospital in Mansehra.
The gathering was to acknowledge the medical assistance to over one million
patients by the members of Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Contingent, who
were sent to Pakistan in October to treat earthquake victims.
The Pakistani official recalled how his government had asked the Cuban
doctors to stay until March, so as not to affect the local healthcare
system, and that the answer they received was that the Cuban assistance
would last as long it was necessary. He wholeheartedly appreciated the
generous attitude by Cuba of donating all the field hospitals with their
equipment and providing 1,000 scholarships to Pakistani students to study
medicine in Cuba.
“You will remain for a long time in the hearts of our people,” said Farooq
Khan, who depicted the Cuban medical personnel as very noble and humane,
working very far from their country and their families. Cuba and Pakistan
have established very tight bonds of friendship, he stressed.
During the ceremony, the Federal Relief Commissioner of Pakistan handed
Cuban first vice minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodriguez Padilla,
representative of the Cuban Government heading the relief and solidarity
mission, with a plaque of recognition from the Pakistani government for the
work of the Henry Reeve International Contingent.