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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Monday assured foolproof security measures for the Chinese nationals working on the Dasu Hydropower Project as well as across the country and resolved to ensure exemplary punishment for the perpetrators of the March 26 Besham incident. A vehicle-borne suicide bomber targeted a convoy of Chinese engineers in the […]
PESHAWAR: Pakistani authorities have shared with China the preliminary findings of an investigation into a deadly attack that killed five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver in the country’s volatile northwest, officials said Wednesday. Authorities were doing DNA testing on the remains of a suicide bomber who rammed his explosives-laden car into a vehicle that […]
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office (FO) said on Thursday that there remains no doubt that the suicide attaack in Besham was orchestrated by enemies of Pakistan-China friendship. FO Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch addressed a weekly press briefing and said Pakistan was in touch with China following the “heinous attack”. She reiterated that Pakistan was “fully committed […]