China has asked Pakistan to further upgrade the security of Chinese personnel and projects in the country under the Bilateral Economic Corridor, a media report said on Friday. Sugar came after demand 14 july bus blast In Pakistan’s troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, 13 people, including nine Chinese personnel, were killed.
Speaking to the press after Pakistan’s Minister of Planning and Development Asad Umar co-chaired the Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), both the sides said that both sides need to arrest and punish the culprits. needed. Will demand of a heinous crime. agreed upon. Courts as soon as possible, the Dawn newspaper reported. On 14 July, a bus carrying Chinese engineers and construction workers exploded before falling into a deep gorge in Dasu area of Upper Kohistan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Chinese citizens were engaged in building a dam, which is part of the USD 60 billion CCPEC. At least 13 people were killed and 39 others were injured, including nine Chinese civilians and two Frontier Corps soldiers.
China called the incident a ‘bomb attack’. As of now, it is not clear whether the blast happened due to a technical fault or the vehicle was hit by the blast. Ning Jizhe, vice chairman of China’s National Development and Reform Commission, co-chaired the meeting on Friday.
The JCC – which is mandated to be convened twice every year – was not met after November 2019 due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Dawn quoted Minister Omar as saying that China and Pakistan have mutually agreed on CPEC projects in the country and to enhance the security of Chinese workers.
The minister said that since the bus blasting work at the Dasu hydroelectric project site had come to a halt, adding that the project was no longer a part of the CPEC. Acknowledging the request of the Chinese side for security, Omar said that Pakistan is aware that the scope of projects between the two countries is increasing and hence the security also needs to be upgraded.
Meanwhile, the “iron brothers” decided to keep the tariff and tax policies in the electricity sector unchanged. The CPEC, which links China’s resource-rich Xinjiang province with Pakistan’s strategic Gwadar port in Balochistan, is regarded as a major project of the multi-billion Belt and Road. The initiative, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s pet plan, aims to advance China’s influence globally with Chinese-funded infrastructure projects. Apart from CPEC, China has invested in over 200 projects in Pakistan.
India has objected to the CPEC as it is passing through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
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