Pakistan reaping what it sowed with turning a blind eye towards the Taliban while they considered it America’s problem.
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Chinese imperialists reaping what they sow.
I'm not sure how 5 people working on a hydroelectric project in an allied nation are imperialists. China and Pakistan have been incredibly close partners since the 70s.
If 5 engineers from the US were killed in a bombing in Canada, it wouldn't be because they were American imperialists getting what they deserve.
Yeah but have you considered I'm scared of chinese people
Bet you $10 that there's CIA funding behind this lol
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Five Chinese workers and their local driver were killed in a suicide bomb blast in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, authorities said, the latest in a string of terror attacks that the South Asian country’s military and government say aims to disrupt Islamabad’s close ties with Beijing.
Senior police official Muhammad Ali Gandapur said the explosion occurred when the bomber rammed a vehicle into the workers’ convoy as it traveled from the capital to the Dasu dam, the country’s largest hydropower project, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
No group claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s blast, which comes nearly three years after a bus explosion killed 13 people including nine Chinese workers on their way to the dam in another unclaimed attack on the project.
Pakistan has been grappling with a surge in violence from militant and terrorist groups since the Taliban seized power in neighboring Afghanistan following the withdrawal of American troops in 2021.
The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), the most prominent of several separatist groups in restive southwest Balochistan province, claimed responsibility for the assaults on a Pakistani naval air base and a government complex outside the Chinese-funded strategic port of Gwadar.
In August last year, BLA militants opened fire on a Pakistani military convoy in Gwadar as it was escorting a delegation of Chinese nationals to a construction project.
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