This would be the first-ever official delegation by the communist parties to visit Pakistan. Both the general secretaries would be setting their foot on Pakistani soil for the first time.

Academic freedom, which endows members of the university with the right to hold, express and teach any views they deem fit, and to research and publish their findings without restraint, is widely recognized as essential to the pursuit of knowledge.

A spokesman of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council reiterated that there is only one China in the world, with both the mainland and Taiwan being the "same one China."

Beginning today, and until March 24, tens of thousands of voter assemblies will take place, and more than eight million citizens will nominate their candidates for municipal delegates.