Finding friendship in a safe haven: A Pakistani researcher's experience in China

by Xinhua writer Sudeshna Sarkar, Li Li, Ma Qian

BEIJING, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- When Saira Safdar, dressed in her white coat, the universal uniform of researchers in laboratories, poring over her test tubes with frothing chemicals in them, and lifting her head only occasionally to make jottings about her experiment on her notepad, she looks like any other student working on their Ph.D. programs at Beijing's Beihang University.

But there is something to set her apart from the others. The 28-year-old is a new face of Pakistan.

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