Policemen inspect the car damaged in the incident on Monday. PHOTO:
KARACHI: A Chinese worker and his driver were wounded in Karachi on Monday in a bomb attack claimed by ethnic nationalists opposed to plans for extensive Chinese investment, police said.
The 25-year-old Chinese man, identified as Finche, and his driver were slightly wounded in the attack, said Sindh IG Allah Dino Khawaja.
"Apparently, the attack was aimed at the Chinese national," Khawaja said, adding the man was travelling with his driver and a security guard. A low-intensity bomb went off by the road in Gulshan-e-Hadeed, shattering the windows of the van the men were travelling in.
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Television footage showed construction helmets in a rear seat.
A pamphlet signed by a group called the Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army, an ethnic Sindhi separatist group, was found at the site, police said.
"The world's most plunderous nation has set its eye on Sindh," the pamphlet said, according to a photograph of it seen by Reuters. "They want to attack Sindh and enslave its people."
Meanwhile, Malir SSP Rao Anwar claimed a suspect had been detained and investigations were underway.
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In November last year, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif assured that the government will provide full security to Chinese workers in Pakistan.
“China is a close friend to Pakistan besides being a strategic partner and the government will provide full security to the Chinese workers in Pakistan,” PM had said while chairing a review meeting in Islamabad to monitor progress on projects related to CPEC.
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China had earlier called for better security provision for its workers engaged in the CPEC, a multi-billion dollars project aimed at starting new economic opportunities in the South Asian region.
Chinese ambassador to Pakistan Sun Weidong during a meeting with Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan in Islamabad on October 14 had demanded the provision of fool-proof security to all Chinese workers associated with the CPEC.
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