After Pakistan Blast, China Asks Its Firms There To Step Up Security For Staff
NDTV
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said the Pakistani government has promised to strengthen security for Chinese personnel, projects and institutions
China on Thursday asked thousands of its nationals working on the $60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects in Pakistan to increase their security and watch out for terrorist risks following a deadly suicide blast in Karachi that killed three Chinese and wounded another.
"The Pakistani government has promised to strengthen security for Chinese personnel, projects and institutions, and will not allow any force to undermine our friendship and cooperation," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a media briefing in Beijing.
Asked about the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), the separatist group whose woman suicide bomber carried out the attack at the Karachi University targeting the Chinese teachers, warning more attacks if China and Pakistan don't vacate from Balochistan province, he said, "We believe Pakistan will take earnest and concrete measures to ensure the safe and smooth progress of bilateral cooperation."
"Once again, we remind our institutions' personnel in Pakistan to heighten their security awareness and watch out for terrorist risks," he said.
