Pakistan

Chinese worker wounded in Karachi bomb attack

A low-intensity bomb went off by the road in Gulshan-e-Hadeed, shattering the windows of the van, says Sindh IG

Reuters/faraz Khan May 30, 2016

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.

COMMENTS (19)

Kulbhushan Yadav | 8 years ago | Reply Remnants of Yadav still out there !!!! watch out Pakistan.

IndianDude | 8 years ago | Reply @Humza @Avtar: Maybe you don’t know that statistics for violence and crime have decreased appreciable over the last few years. Pakistan is probably safer than most Muslim countries, ot just safer than Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan I should add to the list of enviable Pakistani achievements that Pakistan's economy is also better than Somalia and North Korea.

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someone | 8 years ago | Reply SIndhi are finally waking up. For so long they have been living under the "Lahore Saltanat". Its time they claim their share of thing and stop "Lahore Saltanant" to squander sindh resources to Chinese leeches.

someone | 8 years ago | Reply @Aleem: So you agree with "Kante se Kanta nikalna" theory then. I wonder why it made so much cry in Pakistan when Indian defense minister said it.

Aleem | 8 years ago | Reply Newton's third law comes to mind..."For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." As a Pakistani citizen I am expecting such kindness to be paid back in kind. The ones behind this attack are known to us as tools and they and their planners need to be made to realize that there is a cost to all this. CPEC has to be ensured no matter the cost.

S.R.H. Hashmi | 8 years ago | Reply It was not all that far back that the terrorists killed seven policemen in Orangi within an hour. This was followed with the killing of another two policemen recently. And now we hear of a Chinese national and his driver slightly wounded in an attack. This clearly means that in spite of ongoing operAtion in Karachi, the extremists, militants and terrorists retain their capability to strike and kill, at will. And that, in turn means, that they have not been crippled, and retain their punch. When the country , and the city is facing threats from so many different sources, the sensible thing would have been to use the resources of the law enforcers in proportion to the seriousness of the threats posed. However, in his absolute wisdom, Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has decided to re-verify all the CNICs issued, instead of concentrating on the problem areas. And the law enforcers seem to be busy hounding MQM in Karachi and elsewhere in Sindh, despite the fact that its members have presented no resistance to them, despite alleged torture of dozens of its workers, involving even killing during custody, in addition to disappearance of a large number of its workers. It is widely rumoured that the hounding of MQM is being done basically to make space for the newly-created Pak Sarzameen Party, and the fact that former MQM workers joining PSP stand absolved of all wrongdoing, does nothing to dispel this impression. And considering the ease with which the PSP can raise massive funds to finance its activities including public meetings, it is not even difficult to work ou twho could be the power behind the party. And while it is common in Pakistan for clever, big-time operators, to have some influential politicians on their unofficial payroll, what could be better than having own political party? And at a time when the country is facing so many serious threats on external and internal fronts, and powerful politicians are only concentrating on how to protect their ill-gotten wealth, the involvement of the powerful sectors in silly games - which have not done the country much good even in the past - seems most unfortunate indeed. Could it all mean, by any chance, that Winston Churchill was right when he claimed that India - or at least our part of it - was not ready for independence? Karachi

Humza | 8 years ago | Reply @Avtar: Maybe you don't know that statistics for violence and crime have decreased appreciable over the last few years. Pakistan is probably safer than most Muslim countries, ot just safer than Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan but probably safer than the others too. This has been written up in the Western press. Security, relative safety and development have improved the nation's international ranking and stature considerable which is why foreign agencies and criminals are trying to destabilize things. Fortunately the general public sees this game by agents such as the caught Indian spy Yadav and they are helping the police and security maintain law and order. I think good policing is about close and open interaction between the public and security departments.

Avtar | 8 years ago | Reply Now the Chinese are being targeted? a tragedy and sympathy to family members. Welcome to the daily reality an average Pakistani faces. Unfortunately for the government, as its main economic plan is Chinese largesse!

Khadar Basha | 8 years ago | Reply Providing fool-proof security to each and every Chinese will eat away our resources. General public won't have any security while the politicians and Chinese workers will have guaranteed security. Where we are going?

sami shahid | 8 years ago | Reply It is very clear that India is behind all this

Quaid e azams grave | 8 years ago | Reply Let's hope nothing happens to CPEC China's Plan for Economic Colonization

Sodomite | 8 years ago | Reply All the more reason for foreigners to stay away from Sindh. Let the people develop on their own pace as if they were in the middle ages.

Omar Sadiq | 8 years ago | Reply A definite act by RAW/Indians to sabotage the CPEC and the Pak/China alliance. Pak should retaliate in kind to the Indians, as this is the only language they understand since the RSS govt is in power in India.

Expert | 8 years ago | Reply @IndianDude: Yawnn..

salman | 8 years ago | Reply Thanks God he was injured only. RAW with their terror tactics. No wonder CPEC is giving them sleepless nights.

Mahakaalchakra | 8 years ago | Reply CPEC is going to be more like "Chinese Power Extension Carved" right into Pakistan.

Haji Atiya | 8 years ago | Reply @IndianDude: The CNG was hauled in before an ATC for further questioning !

Gohar | 8 years ago | Reply This is nonsense sensationalism and over dramatization. It was just a CNG canister explosion. People of these areas want development. Stop inflating non-issues in the news.

IndianDude | 8 years ago | Reply Lets hope that blast damage to Pakistani Chinese brothers does not jeopardize the Communist Party's Economic Corridor.

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