Will not allow anyone to harm iron-clad Pak-China ties: Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto
The Hindu
The Karachi incident was the latest targeted attack against Chinese citizens in Pakistan.
Foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday vowed not to allow anyone to harm the iron-clad friendship between Pakistan and China and promised to thoroughly investigate and bring to justice the perpetrators of the Karachi University attack that killed four people, including three Chinese nationals.
Three Chinese language teachers were killed when an explosion triggered by a burqa-clad woman suicide bomber from the banned Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA) ripped through a van of the Confucius Institute at the prestigious University of Karachi on April 26. A Pakistani driver of the van was also killed.
The Karachi incident was the latest targeted attack against Chinese citizens in Pakistan.
Addressing a solemn memorial service held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to honour the lives and services of the victims of the terrorist attack, Mr. Bilawal said the entire nation grieved with the families and people of China at this terrible loss.
Mr. Bilawal reiterated his strong condemnation of Karachi terrorist attack and “reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to thoroughly investigate the incident and bring the perpetrators to justice”, the Foreign Office said in a statement.
He expressed his determination to not allow anyone to harm the iron-clad friendship between Pakistan and China and underscored that the Pakistan-China ‘iron-brotherhood’ would continue to grow.
Speaking on the occasion, Chargé d’Affaires of the Chinese embassy in Pakistan, Pang Chunxue thanked the Government of Pakistan for organising the memorial service.
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