Pakistan hails China\’s World Expo 2010

ISLAMABAD, April 30 (Xinhua) — Pakistani media and business community hailed World Expo 2010 which opened in China\’s industrial and financial hub Shanghai on Friday with 189 countries participating in the six-month event.

Almost all Pakistani TV channels have reported or broadcast live the opening ceremony.

TV \”Express 24/7\” described it as the biggest expo attracting millions of people around the world.

Pakistan\’s most viewed channel \”Geo TV\” said that \”the world\’s biggest expo is being inaugurated through this colorful ceremony full of Chinese culture.\”

\”The expo will last for six month with high level of security,\” Geo added.

Samaa TV has a special transmission with the headline on its website saying \”Shanghai opens Expo with dazzling display.\”

\”China officially opened its multi-billion-dollar Expo with a dazzling display of fireworks, lasers and dancing fountains, amid thousand of security personnel and electronic watch dogs,\” Samaa TV website said.

\”You may say that it might be a dream but China has materialized it,\” Malik Sohail, president of Businessman Association of Islamabad, told Xinhua.

A lot of viewers watched the World Expo opening ceremony throughout Pakistan.

\”This was the most beautiful and entertaining program after the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics 2008,\” said Sohail Iqbal, a media person in Islamabad.

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