Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has said that Pakistan highly values its economic, political, diplomatic and security relations with China.
While addressing a press conference here on Sunday, the minister said that both countries support each other at different forums and China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) initiative was a big example in this regard.
Mohsin Naqvi said, “We are confirming it with evidence that during an attack on Chinese engineers in Besham, Afghanistan’s territory had been used and it was a matter of great concern for Pakistan.”
Such threats coming from across the borders make regional security more complex, he said adding that it was a planned attack and was operated from Afghanistan.
He said Pakistan had raised this issue with Afghanistan’s Interim government and stressed them to control terrorists operating from there.
The interior minister said that Pakistan had beefed up its security at borders, adding that the government was well aware of the elements behind such incidents, which wanted to harm relations between Pakistan and China.
Support was being provided to TTP-like terrorists in border areas, he said and added that “we have a number of evidence in this regard”.
He said that after occurrence of terrorist attack on Chinese in Besham, the law-enforcement agencies in the country jointly carried out comprehensive investigation of the incident.
