Key Points
The newly elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, is reportedly planning a visit to Beijing soon, However, the gruesome attack on the convoy of Chinese nationals, killing five of them, on 26 March could delay the proposed visit..
After a suicide attacker near Besham city in northwest Pakistans Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into the convoy, which had engineers who were working on the hydroelectric project in Dasu, Islamabad appears visibly shaken..
This is not the first attack on Chinese nationals in Pakistan, particularly in and around the troubled Balochistan region...
A day prior to this incident, separatist fighters belonging to the Majeed Brigade, a faction of the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), which has been behind several attacks on Pakistani and Chinese individuals, attacked the Pakistans second largest airbase PNS Siddique in Turbat area in the southwestern province of Balochistan..
Established in 2011, the Majeed Brigade, a guerilla warfare unit with camps along Balochistan-Iran border has been mounting virulent attacks on Chinese projects and assets along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)...
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