Pakistan Muhammad Zeeshan – China announced on April 22 that it had selected Pakistan’s Muhammad Zeeshan Ali and Khurram Dawood for its first batch of foreign astronauts. The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said in a statement that the two men will come to China as reserve astronauts for training, the Global Times and Xinhua reported. After completing all the training and evaluation, one of them will participate in a mission to the Chinese Space Station Tiangong as a payload specialist.