Taliban spokesman Mohammad Afridi said on Thursday that the woman had been targeted to avenge, what he said, were atrocities carried out by Chinese security forces against Muslims in the north western region of Xinjiang.
According to the report, Peshawar police chief Imtiaz Altaf believed that militants may have been behind the Tuesday shooting in which the Chinese woman and a local accompanying here had been killed. However, he maintained that no conclusions had been reached yet.
The Chinese Embassy, in a statement on Wednesday called on Pakistani authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into the incident and to improve security for other Chinese citizens in Pakistan. They had also dispatched relevant consular staff to help investigations.
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The chinese are not the over lords of pakistan. I am shameful that pakistanis are supporting china against Turks in Xinjiang. What china is doing to Turks in Xinjiang is genocide.There is no other word for that. Although i condemn the killing of innocents, i cannot support the killing of muslims by china and pakistani slavish nature towards the chinese.
Chinese have friendly relationship with countries purely on business interests but Pakistan is an exception due to US and India factors but its well known that Vietnam was dumped due to clash of interest on high seas exploration.
This is exactly what happens when India is allowed to build 10 embassies in Afghanistan along Pakistan border. RAW is behind it. Just like it tried to destroy Pakistan-Sri Lanka relationship by waging an attack on Sri Lankan's cricket team, using proxies, it is now trying to strain pakistan-China friendship. Death to India!
I'm an Indian by the way!
@Maryam: Could you translate it to english please ?
Act of TTP, the proxy of US and its allies, as its obvious operations in peshawar, unfortunately these acts show how desparate US is to get attention from pakistani government to clean up its mess in afghanistan and give it some face saving to exit afghanistan with what ever little dignity it is left with.
PTI foreign policy "We will make better relation with china (and worse with America)". PTI terrorism policy "We will negotiate with terrorists" so if terrorists are killing chinese how will PTI manage relations with China.
It is funny that nobody has blamed RAW, CIA or MOSSAD for this. Taliban is a bigger enemy of the good people of Pakistan. Taliban have no Khauf-e-Khuda. To kill an innocent worker of whatever colour or faith is their priviledge granted by ?.
I think Pakistan Taliban give gift to its all weather friend China on every festival. And recently it was Valentine day. Do you guy spare any country or consider any country as your true friend. Look like whole world is against Pakistan. Time to do some introspect.
@Muhammad: all u r talk concludes that before america came pakistan used to harbour and nurture taliban using them as strategic asset against india, afganistan.. now if for some reason they turned against u then bear the burnt. i sencerely pray for the departed soul and wish that this daily killing come to an end
Lets join hands and kill all Taliban. They do not deserve to breathe the same air as us. Take no prisoners.
How is it possible that China has NEVER blamed India, the USA or Israel in the deaths of ANY Chinese in Pakistan? Are they less aware of the circumstances, after thorough investigations, than the armchair experts with their own huge investigative agencies at their private beck & call (!)??
@Farooq: Your comment: "These Talibans are the enemy of Pakistan,Islam, humanity and Allah ....................."
@Kamran Haider bukhary:
Your comment: "these are not Muslims, ................."
It is amusing to see Muslims calling fellow Muslims as " Enemy of Islam" or "Not Muslims". when such atrocious acts are committed by those who claim to be true followers of the religion.
Has anyone come across such proclamations from followers of any other religion, say Hindus or Christians, declaring fellow followers as not belonging to or enemy of their religion ?
Good Taliban, Bad Taliban, CIA, Mossad, RAW, Haqqani - a real mess! Throw in the Chinese and Xinkiang Muslims into the mix - we have a real seafood stew!!
@Muhammad: That's the crux of the problem. They were all being "Made in Pakistan" but for export to India and Afghanistan. A few of the lot somehow made it to the local markets and caused minor problems. But after 9/11 with the export markets not so conducive to this trade, these products got released into the local markets. That is what you see around you today. Hope this answers your question.So all this fuss you see from PTI and estblishment figures, is to try and open up the Afghan market once again. Nice try. However time has proven that while this trade is lucrative for some, it's pretty costly for the people of Pakistan.
With due respect, the double-standard exhibited by our Pakistani friends here is amazing. While they are ever ready to call for Jihad and condemn pan-Islamic "causes" citing oppression of Muslims by Jews, Christians, Hindus etc., and are happy to rejoice when the Jihadists kill these non-Muslims -- people of Pakistan celebrated the killing of 3000 Americans in the 9/11 incident and were smugly happy when Hindus were butchered in the Mumbai 26/11 incident-- they now want to "condemn" the killing of the Chinese woman by the Taliban and raise outcry on this "atrocity"! All this despite the fact that the Chinese have been brutally oppressing the Xinjiang Muslims for decades and forcibly occupy the Uighur nation.
I am not condoning the fact that an innocent Chinese woman was mercilessly murdered by the Taliban, but just want to point out the hypocrisy and double-standard of most Pakistanis here.
The Chinese lady was reportedly killed to avenge Chinese atrocities agaist Muslims in Xinjiang. How did the killer know that she was a non-Muslim? Hui Chinese are all Muslims. In any case, she could not be resposible for the actions of Chinese Securty forces?.
Aik Ho Muslim Haram Kee Pasbani Kay Liyee // Neel Kay Sahil Say Lay Kar Ta Ba Khak-i-Kashghar
Our establishment gave birth to jihadis to fight wars in kashmir, afghanistan and elsewhere, in the guise of defending and protecting our 'muslim' brothers. In light of china killing 15+ uighur muslim brothers just a couple of days ago, can you blame the talibans for doing what they did? These talibans were simple pashtuns who were brain-washed to fight for muslims brothers all over the earth, I dont thik they care if the establishment thinks its okey for china to kill innocent muslims because china is our 'all weather' friend, for the talibans the chinese are oppressors of muslim brothers!
Taliban are not human and we shouldn't treat as human. They should be completely eliminated
I am a very liberal Pakistani. Don't tell me anything about Xinjiang Muslims. I follow Islam which teaches me to be completely selfish. When it suits my interests, other people become Muslims. When it suits me again, they become none of my concern. China is my friend so they can do whatever they want. I am trying to make Islam like the Chinese religion.
the same taliban said they dont attack women.
@Amjad: U know these kind of "CONSPIRACY THEORIES" are good to satisfy urself...but its better to know d truth.
@Faraz: Where they were before america comes here.why there was no blast before america comes here.....why here was so much peace before america comming here.....
second i accept most of pakistani accept Taliban as Extremist.it simply means most of us deceived by this media..so dont hapy on this.no one can stop the truth as it must come.despite of al propaganda.
these are not Muslims, these are just USA agents, trying to carry out USA agenda here.
First of all sad about any loss of life in terrorism - whether Pakistani, Chinese or Indian. The question is why so much attention in Pakistan when one Chinese dies when thousands of Pakistanis dying has not resulted in so much attention?
Shouldn't Pakistanis be at least as concerned about fellow Pakistanis as they are about Chinese?
Not even one of the above commentors has felt remourse of the muslims that were killed this week in Xinjiang.
@Amjad: yeah true. according to my latest principle, its none other but India behind this. and we should force and make china to believe so using our all weather friendship title.
Afghan Taliban are the real Taliban, we should stop calling these people Taliban.
AOA,
Actually brothers CIA is working actively in peshawar...they dont want china inteligence to be there.....they killed peoples and put blame on taliban.
in this way they get many objectives completed......
to make damage to pak china frendship.
to turn people against Taliban
and to divert people attention from CIA so that they can doo more stuff.
so dont accept wt these news tell u.
These Talibans are the enemy of Pakistan,Islam, humanity and Allah and friend of Mossad,Raw and CIA. that is why they are killing people
Now that's really bad , Days are no far when china will also join NATO for war against Terrorism ... Chineese jet planes Attcking the pakistan Remote areas
@Zaid Hamid: Obviously, since killings which support India are carried out by anti state agents on the payroll of the Indian government. As an Indian you must already know this!
@ Fahad Khan : "China is our all weather friend" Whether is changing fast. Like one prepares for untimely massive rains and droughts, prepare for a drought too in such friendship.
You won't get rid of Taliban unless you cut off their supply routes and life lines that are spread all over Pakistan in the guise of radical madrassas and mosques- who exclusively preach hate and are agents of intolerance.
This would be a matter of great concern for GOP as it involves the only country who is closest to Pakistan and engaged in a number of projects in the country since Chinese would now be targeted by TTP. Chinese govt would be wary to take up any future projects in Pakistan or even in Afghanistan due to this latest attack and warning issued by TTP besides putting pressure on ties between the two countries.
What about the local who killed with Chinease lady.....
Taliban is funded by CIA, RAW, Mossad. This proves it
China and Pakistan are the so called most friendly nations. On the contrary, India and China are not so friendly. However, Chinese are often killed in Pakistan. To best of my knowledge not a single Chinese has ever been killed in India. Doesn't it tell all ? Pakistan does not know how to manage friendship and India knows how to manage maturely even with unfriendliness.
TTP is a curse.....
Apparently these cavemen (and I suspect calling them that is an insult to our actual ancient cavemen forebears) have no concept of fairness and justice and that you can not punish one person for crimes committed by another. Pathetic yahoos!
This is awful, This will further damage the good relations of Pakistan and China.
Death to TTP