Support WBURIn Pakistan, Learning Chinese Is Cool — And Seen As A Path To ProsperityPlay07:02Download AudioDiaa HadidAbdul SattarOctober 09, 2018 ShareSaleem Abbas, a 17-year-old from northern Pakistan, sits front and center in his Chinese language class taught by Nayyar Nawaz at Pakistan's National University of Modern Languages. (Saiyna Bashir for NPR)