China envoy speaks with Pakan PM on tensions with India | World News
Chinese Ambassador to Pakan Jiang Zaidong met PM Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad and exchanged views on the India-Pakan tensions in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack.
Official media here quoted a press release Chinese Embassy in Islamabad stating that Jiang met Sharif on Thursday and reiterated China’s earlier call for both India and Pakan to exercise restraint.
China understands Pakan’s legitimate security concerns and supports its efforts to safeguard national sovereignty and security interests, the press release quoted Jiang as saying.
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He expressed China’s support for a prompt and impartial investigation into the Pahalgam incident and called on both India and Pakan to exercise restraint, meet each other halfway, properly manage differences and jointly safeguard regional peace and stability, the release said.Sharif briefed Jiang on recent tensions and expressed appreciation for China’s constructive efforts to promote peace and stability in South Asia and to help de-escalate the situation, according to the release.
‘Hory with extrem groups’
Pakan Peoples Party chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari Friday said that the country had a past with extrem groups and it had suffered because of it.
Bilawal was answering a question asked during an interview on Thursday on whether he agreed with Defence Miner Khwaja Asif’s controversial remark last week that his country “did the West’s dirty work for decades”.
“I don’t think it’s a secret that Pakan has a past as far as extrem groups are concerned. And as a result of this, we have suffered. Pakan has suffered. We’ve gone through wave after wave of extremism… We went through the Islamisation and militarisation of our society. But as a result of what we suffered, we also learnt our lessons,” he said.
