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Karachi Bombing Was Not First Attack On Chinese People In Pakistan, Read About Earlier Attacks

The Tuesday's bombing has been said to be the latest attack targeted at Chinese nationals in Pakistan.

Three Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver were killed on Monday in a suidice bombing inside University of Karachi.

A van near the China-built Confucius Institute inside the university was targeted by a woman suicide bomber. The institute라이브 바카라 director, a Chinese national, was among the dead.바카라 웹사이트

The bombing has been said to be the latest attack targeted at Chinese nationals in Pakistan. There are thousands of Chinese nationals in Pakistan, many of whom바카라 웹사이트work in several projects under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, which is part of China라이브 바카라 Belt and Road Initiative.바카라 웹사이트

China has invested upto $62 billion in the CPEC, which links Gwadar port in Balochistan to China라이브 바카라 Xinjiang. Balochistan has an active insurgency against the Pakistani state that라이브 바카라 also believed to have acquired an anti-China stance.바카라 웹사이트

Here are some of the previous attacks in Pakistan in which Chinese nationals were targeted:

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa attack, July 2021

Twelve people were killed when a bus exploded and fell into a ravine near a hydropower plant in the Upper Kohistan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Nine of those killed were Chinese nationals.

The Dasu plant is part of the CPEC.

Initially, there were conflicting reports about the incident. An adviser to Pakistan라이브 바카라 prime minister had called it an attack but the country foreign office called it an accident out of mechanical failure. However, the Chinese government treated the incident as a bombing.바카라 웹사이트

Reuters at the time reported four officials, including the top provincial police officer, as saying that the incident was an attack.

Two weeks later, another Chinese worker was shot and wounded in Karachi.

Attack on Karachi consulate, November 2018바카라 웹사이트

The Chinese consulate in Karachi was attacked in November 2018 in which four people were killed, none of whom was a Chinese national.바카라 웹사이트

Three gunmen attacked the consulate but were killed in a confrontation with the security forces. Two of the four killed were policemen posted at the consulate.바카라 웹사이트

The Balochistan Liberation Army, a separatist group from the restive Balochistan province, took responsibility for the attack. The same group took responsibility for Tuesday라이브 바카라 bombing inside University of Karachi.

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Abduction and execution in Balochistan, 2017

Two Chinese nationals, a man and a woman, were abducted in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan라이브 바카라 Balochistan province, in May 2017.

Just like the Chinese nationals killed in Tuesday라이브 바카라 bombing, the two abducted in May 2017 were also teaching the Chinese language to the locals.바카라 웹사이트

Later in October that year, the Chinese government that the two had been executed by the terrorist group ISIS.바카라 웹사이트

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