Pakistan Senate approves of Mandarin as an official language - fake news

ANI reports: (turns out this is fake news, this reinforces longstanding doubts I have had about ANI)

The Pakistani Senate on Monday approved a motion to declare Mandarin as one of the official languages of Pakistan. The motion said the step was necessary in view of ties between Pakistan and China, AbbTakk News reported. It said the relation between Islamabad and Beijing would deepen further and help the people connected with the China Pakistan Economic Corridor communicate easily if Mandarin was made the official language of the South Asian nation.

Pakistan's Ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani tweeted: "In a short span of 70 years, Pakistan has flirted with promoting four languages that were not the mother tongue of many people in the country - English, Urdu, Arabic, and now Chinese -- ignoring native languages." Punjabi, which is widely spoken in Punjab province of Pakistan, Pashto and many other native languages have not been declared official languages of the country.

Exemplar in Foreign Relations

MajorlyProfound provides this list of official superlatives:

• Pakistan China Friendship is: Unique and Unprecedented (May, 2010)
• Pakistan China Friendship is: Taller Than Mountains and Deeper Than Oceans (Dec, 2010)
• Pakistan China Friendship is: Stronger than Steel (Dec, 2010)
• Pakistan China Friendship is: All-weather (May, 2011)
• Pakistan China Friendship is: A Lush Tree (July, 2011)
• Pakistan China Friendship is: Deeper Than the Seas and Sweeter Than Honey (March, 2012)
• Pakistan China Friendship is: The Stuff of Legends (Apr, 2012)
• Pakistan China Friendship is: In Our Blood (Apr, 2012)
• Pakistan China Friendship is: Beyond the Confines of Time Limits (June, 2012)

China, too

This is from 1944, "The House that Jinnah Built", by B.G. Kaushik. 

[Jinnah] has not hesitated to align himself with the most reactionary forces in the country.......

Mr Jinnah is reported to have not even spared Muslims of another nation of his disruptionist message and "strongly disapproved of the Chinese Muslims' co-operation with the Hans, as the majority of the Chinese are sometimes called."

Footnote: John Kin in an article published in the American magazine "Asia" refers to the attitude of Chinese Muslims towards Pakistan and the Indian Muslim League.  Kin says in the article: "A written appeal, addressed to Mr. Mohammed Ali Jinnah, President of the Indian Muslim League, urging him to co-operate with the Indian National Congress, was drafted to be signed by General Omar Pai Chungshi, China's No. 1 Mohammedan general and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Chinese Army, in his capacity as President of the Chinese Islamic Salvation Federation, representing all of the Chinese Muslims."

Then Kin refers to the Chinese goodwill mission brought to India by Mr Othman K.H. Woo in 1941.  He writes, Mr. Woo's "mission in India, however was merely to inform the Muslims there of the activities of their Chinese co-religionists, and to gather information on the spot about Muslims in India.....In an interview, he (Mr. Woo) reported back to Chungking, the President of the Indian Muslim League was quoted as having strongly disapproved of the Chinese Muslims' co-operation with the Hans, as the majority of the Chinese population are sometimes called."