Pakistan rejects ‘agenda-driven report’ asserting China seeks joint safety for its residents

Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch. — Screengrab/YouTube/@foreignofficepk
Overseas Workplace Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch. — Screengrab/YouTube/@foreignofficepk
  • Islamabad, Beijing have strong dialogue mechanism: spokesperson.
  • Baloch says strategic companions respect one another’s sovereignty.
  • Pakistan urges Afghanistan for motion towards terrorist teams.

Pakistan has categorically rejected a media report suggesting Beijing urging Islamabad to permit its personal safety employees for the safety of hundreds of Chinese language residents working within the South Asian nation following the Karachi airport bombing.

Beijing had requested Pakistan to “enable its personal safety employees for Chinese language residents” throughout talks after a automobile bombing in Karachi that was seen as “a serious safety breach”, Reuters reported this on Monday quoting sources.

Two Chinese language residents amongst three individuals have been killed in a suicide blast close to Karachi airport final month and a banned outfit — Balochistan Liberation Military’s (BLA) Majeed Brigade — claimed its accountability by way of social media.

Reacting to the report at her weekly press briefing on Thursday, Overseas Workplace Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch rejected the information report as “hypothesis” and “motivated by agenda”.

She urged the media to determine the motives behind such tales. Baloch added that each Pakistan and China had strong dialogue and cooperation based mostly on mutual cooperation and respect for one another’s sovereignty as being the iron brothers and strategic companions.

“Each nations had the resolve and capabilities to foil any try and hurt their bilateral relations,” she added.

The Reuters report claimed {that a} collection of assaults on Chinese language residents have “pushed Pakistan to start formal negotiations for a joint safety administration system”.

‘Pakistan persistence should not be examined’

As Pakistan witnessed a surge in terrorist assaults for the reason that Taliban returned to energy in neighbouring Afghanistan in 2021, Islamabad has reiterated its name for the Afghan authorities to take motion towards the teams or people concerned in terror actions towards Pakistan, warning that they need to not take a look at the persistence of the Pakistani individuals.

“We urge Afghan authorities to take Pakistan’s repeated requests critically and make sure that motion is taken towards these terror teams,” Baloch stated in immediately’s media briefing immediately.

“The persistence of Pakistani individuals should not be examined with respect to the phobia menace we proceed to face from entities and people in Afghanistan,” she added.