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&ldquo;The security situation in Pakistan has been severe&rdquo; says the <a href="http://pk.chineseembassy.org/eng/zbgx/t1900950.htm">Chinese Embassy in Pakistan</a>, in a statement related to the suicide attack in Gwadar on Friday. Annoyed, China has demanded to &ldquo;upgrade the security mechanism&rdquo; so that &ldquo;similar incidents do not happen again,&rdquo; says the press release by the Chinese embassy in Islamabad.&nbsp; This was an unusual statement by China which came after yet another attack on a Chinese engineer working on the&nbsp; project in Gwadar in Balochistan. Gwadar port is the starting point of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). CPEC terminates in Kashgar in China&rsquo;s Xinjiang region, but Beijing wants to extend it to Afghanistan, rich in natural resources including the much sought-after rare-earth minerals.</p>
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The suicide bomber of Majeed Brigade of banned&nbsp; Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), targeted&nbsp; a vehicle carrying Chinese nationals. Two boys were killed and four others, including a Chinese national, injured. BLA, which like other militant groups like anti-Pakistan Tehrik-e-Taliban-Pakistan (TTP) in the region, accuses China of exploiting Balochistan&rsquo;s mineral resources, and has previously attacked Chinese nationals and the Chinese consulate in Karachi.</p>
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Miffed, China demanded that &ldquo;relevant departments at all levels in Pakistan must take practical and effective measures to accelerate to implement strengthened whole-process security measures and upgraded security cooperation mechanism to ensure that similar incidents will not happen again.&rdquo;</p>
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Last month, In July, a suicide bomber attacked a bus carrying workers to a dam construction site in Pakistan&#39;s northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province ,killing 13 people&nbsp; including nine Chinese nationals.&nbsp;</p>
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Pakistan had blamed India and Afghanistan for these attacks.&nbsp;</p>
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Pakistani Foreign minister Shah Mohammad Qureshi alleged&nbsp; that TTP, is funded by India and Afghanistan, and is responsible for these attacks. &ldquo;As per our investigation the Afghan soil was used for this incident… about its planning and its execution, we&#39;re seeing a clear nexus between NDS and RAW,&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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While Chinese workers and diplomats have been targeted before in Pakistan, the scope and frequency of the attacks is growing, Beijing has ramped up pressure on Islamabad. China&rsquo;s main worry is that these&nbsp; attacks have been a huge blow to its interests in Pakistan. Now that&nbsp; the Taliban is in power in Afghanistan, Chinese interests in Pakistan, and the $ 60 billion CPEC could become prime targets.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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Recently the Taliban has released TTP&rsquo;s 4000 fighters including commanders from Afghan jails, who have regrouped in Pakistan. In a report, TTP has close ties with the&nbsp; Uyghur East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM). Both militant groups are China&rsquo;s most pressing security threats. For China, it&rsquo;s a security-first concern for its CPEC projects. Everything else follows far behind, Beijing has run out of patience with the Pakistani military establishment, whom it has been paying a hefty amount of money&nbsp; for creating and maintaining extra security for years .&nbsp;</p>
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It seems that China has decided to deal with threats head on.&nbsp;</p>
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Chinese ambassador to Afghanistan <a href="https://www.indianarrative.com/world-news/jem-chief-azhar-masood-s-brother-rauf-azhar-calls-on-mullah-baradar-to-pledge-allegiance-109395.html">Wang Yu met the Taliban boss Mullah Baradar</a> in Kandahar on Thursday and reminded him of the Chinese &ldquo;offers&rdquo; if the Taliban makes a clean break with all terrorist organizations including the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), TTP which are major threats for Chinese investments.&nbsp;</p>
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Also Read: <a href="https://www.indianarrative.com/opinion-news/islamabad-worried-as-more-than-anti-pak-militants-released-by-taliban-enter-pakistan-109328.html">Islamabad worried as more than 4,000 anti-Pak militants released by Taliban enter Pakistan</a><wbr></wbr></p>
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