Senior Chinese Communist Party official meets Pakistan's army chief and foreign minister

Liu Haixing, minister of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, called on Pakistan's Chief of Defence Forces, Asim Munir, at army headquarters in Rawalpindi on Monday, the military's media wing, ISPR, said according to Dawn. The two discussed "evolving regional and international security dynamics" and expressed a shared resolve to strengthen what both countries call their "all-weather strategic cooperative partnership", ISPR said.

Liu, a career diplomat who took charge of the department in September 2025, is on his first visit to Pakistan. He also met Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar in Islamabad, where, according to Pakistan's Foreign Office, they discussed cultural ties and people-to-people exchanges and agreed to mark the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations "in a befitting manner", The Express Tribune reported. No agreements were announced.

The department Liu heads handles the Communist Party's ties with foreign political parties, so the visit adds a party-to-party channel to the two governments' dealings, which centre on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. It comes as Pakistan's army is engaged in border clashes with Afghanistan's Taliban government and has accused India of backing militants, charges New Delhi has rejected. Neither side's readout mentioned India or Afghanistan.