06-09-2017, 10:08 PM
*** 10-Jun-17 World View -- Execution of two of China's citizens in Pakistan raises concerns about CPEC
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** Two Chinese citizens in Pakistan executed ten days after being abducted
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Pictures of Chinese couple that were executed by LeJA in Pakistan on Thursday, after being kidnapped on May 24
With thousands of workers and families from China pouring into
Pakistan to work on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC),
security for the Chinese communities is becoming an increasing
concern.
On May 24, gunmen dressed as police stopped a car containing two
Chinese nationals, a man and a woman, who were teaching Mandarin at a
private language school in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's restive
Balochistan province. At the same time, they were studying the Urdu
language at the school.
On Friday, a press release issued by the so-called Islamic State (IS
or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh) stated that the two Chinese citizens had
been executed. The group also released a video, which showed two
bodies shot and bleeding on some grassy ground.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said in Beijing,
"Pakistan pays great attention to the protection of Chinese citizens
in the institutions there and made great efforts for their security."
Hua insisted that the abduction and killings were unrelated to CPEC.
Nonetheless, following the abduction, 11 Chinese nationals living in
the town where the abduction occurred were flown to Karachi, and then
back to China.
Pakistani media have been ordered not to report on the killings of the
Chinese citizens, saying that such reports would be "disrespectful" to
the Chinese. But some have evaded the rules by republishing stories
from international news wires. Newsweek Pakistan / AFP and Express Tribune - Pakistan / Reuters and Dawn (Pakistan, 3-Jun) and
Hindustan Times
****
**** Execution of Chinese citizens blamed on Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ)
****
The kidnapping and execution of the two Chinese nationals was claimed
by ISIS, but as usual ISIS is taking credit for something it had
nothing to do with. As ISIS gets closer and closer to defeat in Iraq
and Syria, putting out press releases taking credit for attacks around
the world seems to be the only thing left it can do.
There's little doubt that the perpetrators the Al Alami offshoot of
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJA), which has sworn allegiance to ISIS. LeJ is
a terror group that has vowed to exterminate all Shias in Pakistan,
and has carried out numerous terrorist actions targeting Shias and
Sufis. In November, LeJA attacked a police training facility in
Quetta, killing 61 people, mostly fresh police recruits.
The bad news for China is that LeJ, through its offshoot LeJA, is now
apparently turning its attention from slaughtering Shias and Sufis to
the slaughter of thousands of Chinese workers and families who have
come to Balochistan to work on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
(CPEC).
Since the May 24 abduction, Pakistani and Chinese authorities had been
trying to rescue the hostages. On Thursday, Pakistan's military
released details of an operation that took place from June 1-3 in a
remote cave system in Mastung, a town north of Quetta. According to
the army, the operation killed 12 "hardcore terrorists, including two
suicide bombers." Pakistani authorities confirmed that the killed
terrorists belonged to LeJA, and said "The operation, carried out from
June 1 to 3, successfully denied the establishment of any direct or
indirect IS-organized infrastructure in Pakistan."
The Pakistani security forces destroyed an explosives facility inside
a cave and recovered a cache of arms and ammunition, including 50
kilograms of explosives, three suicide jackets, 18 grenades, six
rocket launchers, four light machine guns,18 small machine guns, four
sniper rifles, 38 communication sets and ammunition of various types.
During the Mastung operation, the vehicle used in the kidnapping of
the Chinese citizens was found, but not the Chinese citizens
themselves.
Several hours after the details of the Mastung operation were
released, the ISIS announcement of the death of the two Chinese
appeared. Dawn (Pakistan, 8-Jun) and CNN and Dawn (Pakistan)
Related Articles
****
**** Concerns grow about the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)
****
Over 10-20 years, at a cost of $46 billion, CPEC will supposedly build
a network of roads, railways and energy pipelines aiming to connect
western Chinese cities, starting from China's easternmost city Kashgar
in Xinjiang province, to the sea port in Gwadar on the Indian Ocean in
Balochistan province in southern Pakistan. It will have both economic
and military components. Power generation, transport, commerce, R&D
and the defense of Pakistan all will be increasingly tied to Chinese
investment, supplies and interests.
Balochistan is Pakistan's largest province, but it's claimed by its
population, mostly from the Baloch ethnic group, is marginalized and
economically disfavored. The Baloch ethnic group has been opposed to
CPEC from the beginning. Balochs are opposed because the project will
result in an inflow of more than 600,000 Chinese people -- Chinese
workers and their families -- diluting that Baloch population. Baloch
activists claim that whatever economic benefits the CPEC project will
bring to Pakistan, most of the benefits will go to the favored Punjab
province. The CPEC project will use up all of Balochistan's natural
resources, and the Baloch people will get nothing from it.
It's not just Balochs who are opposing it. According to S. Akbar
Zaidi, a leading Pakistani economist, is warning that "Another East
India Company is in the offing." The East India Company was a British
business organization that used economic power to effectively colonize
the Indian subcontinent for centuries.
According to Zaidi, Pakistan is prostrating itself to China:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"From the influence of American imperialism for most
> of its existence, Pakistan gave way to Saudi intrusion in
> domestic, cultural and social affairs, and now has prostrated
> itself in front of Chinese imperial designs. ...
>
> Pakistan’s obsession with China and CPEC bodes ill for any sort of
> rapprochement between India and Pakistan unless, of course, only
> if the Chinese initiate such moves, and if it fits into their
> grand design in the region. With China taking over Pakistan,
> providing it with undisclosed amount of investments, any argument
> of increasing trade and economic cooperation between India and
> Pakistan lose all urgency. When you have China, who needs
> India?"<END QUOTE>[/indent]
The execution of the two Chinese citizens is raising security concerns
among the Chinese as well.
Navy vessels from the People’s Liberation Army have been providing
security escorts to Chinese commercial vessels since November, when
they began docking at Pakistan's Gwadar port, which is the southern
end of the CPEC infrastructure. In the future, the port will house a
detachment of PLA marines, making it China’s second overseas military
base after Djibouti. Hindustan Times and South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
Related Articles
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Pakistan, Balochistan, Quetta, Mastung,
China, Hua Chunying, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al Alami, LeJA,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, CPEC, Gwadar sea port,
S. Akbar Zaidi, East India Company
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Two Chinese citizens in Pakistan executed ten days after being abducted
- Execution of Chinese citizens blamed on Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ)
- Concerns grow about the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)
****
**** Two Chinese citizens in Pakistan executed ten days after being abducted
****
Pictures of Chinese couple that were executed by LeJA in Pakistan on Thursday, after being kidnapped on May 24
With thousands of workers and families from China pouring into
Pakistan to work on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC),
security for the Chinese communities is becoming an increasing
concern.
On May 24, gunmen dressed as police stopped a car containing two
Chinese nationals, a man and a woman, who were teaching Mandarin at a
private language school in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's restive
Balochistan province. At the same time, they were studying the Urdu
language at the school.
On Friday, a press release issued by the so-called Islamic State (IS
or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh) stated that the two Chinese citizens had
been executed. The group also released a video, which showed two
bodies shot and bleeding on some grassy ground.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said in Beijing,
"Pakistan pays great attention to the protection of Chinese citizens
in the institutions there and made great efforts for their security."
Hua insisted that the abduction and killings were unrelated to CPEC.
Nonetheless, following the abduction, 11 Chinese nationals living in
the town where the abduction occurred were flown to Karachi, and then
back to China.
Pakistani media have been ordered not to report on the killings of the
Chinese citizens, saying that such reports would be "disrespectful" to
the Chinese. But some have evaded the rules by republishing stories
from international news wires. Newsweek Pakistan / AFP and Express Tribune - Pakistan / Reuters and Dawn (Pakistan, 3-Jun) and
Hindustan Times
****
**** Execution of Chinese citizens blamed on Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ)
****
The kidnapping and execution of the two Chinese nationals was claimed
by ISIS, but as usual ISIS is taking credit for something it had
nothing to do with. As ISIS gets closer and closer to defeat in Iraq
and Syria, putting out press releases taking credit for attacks around
the world seems to be the only thing left it can do.
There's little doubt that the perpetrators the Al Alami offshoot of
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJA), which has sworn allegiance to ISIS. LeJ is
a terror group that has vowed to exterminate all Shias in Pakistan,
and has carried out numerous terrorist actions targeting Shias and
Sufis. In November, LeJA attacked a police training facility in
Quetta, killing 61 people, mostly fresh police recruits.
The bad news for China is that LeJ, through its offshoot LeJA, is now
apparently turning its attention from slaughtering Shias and Sufis to
the slaughter of thousands of Chinese workers and families who have
come to Balochistan to work on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
(CPEC).
Since the May 24 abduction, Pakistani and Chinese authorities had been
trying to rescue the hostages. On Thursday, Pakistan's military
released details of an operation that took place from June 1-3 in a
remote cave system in Mastung, a town north of Quetta. According to
the army, the operation killed 12 "hardcore terrorists, including two
suicide bombers." Pakistani authorities confirmed that the killed
terrorists belonged to LeJA, and said "The operation, carried out from
June 1 to 3, successfully denied the establishment of any direct or
indirect IS-organized infrastructure in Pakistan."
The Pakistani security forces destroyed an explosives facility inside
a cave and recovered a cache of arms and ammunition, including 50
kilograms of explosives, three suicide jackets, 18 grenades, six
rocket launchers, four light machine guns,18 small machine guns, four
sniper rifles, 38 communication sets and ammunition of various types.
During the Mastung operation, the vehicle used in the kidnapping of
the Chinese citizens was found, but not the Chinese citizens
themselves.
Several hours after the details of the Mastung operation were
released, the ISIS announcement of the death of the two Chinese
appeared. Dawn (Pakistan, 8-Jun) and CNN and Dawn (Pakistan)
Related Articles
- Multiple terror bombings cross Pakistan and Afghanistan (13-Nov-2016)
- Pakistan reels after 60 young police cadets killed in terror attack in Balochistan (26-Oct-2016)
- Quetta Pakistan terror attack kills 75, while unrest grows in Kashmir (09-Aug-2016)
- Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) continues plan to exterminate Shias (03-Nov-2015)
****
**** Concerns grow about the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)
****
Over 10-20 years, at a cost of $46 billion, CPEC will supposedly build
a network of roads, railways and energy pipelines aiming to connect
western Chinese cities, starting from China's easternmost city Kashgar
in Xinjiang province, to the sea port in Gwadar on the Indian Ocean in
Balochistan province in southern Pakistan. It will have both economic
and military components. Power generation, transport, commerce, R&D
and the defense of Pakistan all will be increasingly tied to Chinese
investment, supplies and interests.
Balochistan is Pakistan's largest province, but it's claimed by its
population, mostly from the Baloch ethnic group, is marginalized and
economically disfavored. The Baloch ethnic group has been opposed to
CPEC from the beginning. Balochs are opposed because the project will
result in an inflow of more than 600,000 Chinese people -- Chinese
workers and their families -- diluting that Baloch population. Baloch
activists claim that whatever economic benefits the CPEC project will
bring to Pakistan, most of the benefits will go to the favored Punjab
province. The CPEC project will use up all of Balochistan's natural
resources, and the Baloch people will get nothing from it.
It's not just Balochs who are opposing it. According to S. Akbar
Zaidi, a leading Pakistani economist, is warning that "Another East
India Company is in the offing." The East India Company was a British
business organization that used economic power to effectively colonize
the Indian subcontinent for centuries.
According to Zaidi, Pakistan is prostrating itself to China:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"From the influence of American imperialism for most
> of its existence, Pakistan gave way to Saudi intrusion in
> domestic, cultural and social affairs, and now has prostrated
> itself in front of Chinese imperial designs. ...
>
> Pakistan’s obsession with China and CPEC bodes ill for any sort of
> rapprochement between India and Pakistan unless, of course, only
> if the Chinese initiate such moves, and if it fits into their
> grand design in the region. With China taking over Pakistan,
> providing it with undisclosed amount of investments, any argument
> of increasing trade and economic cooperation between India and
> Pakistan lose all urgency. When you have China, who needs
> India?"<END QUOTE>[/indent]
The execution of the two Chinese citizens is raising security concerns
among the Chinese as well.
Navy vessels from the People’s Liberation Army have been providing
security escorts to Chinese commercial vessels since November, when
they began docking at Pakistan's Gwadar port, which is the southern
end of the CPEC infrastructure. In the future, the port will house a
detachment of PLA marines, making it China’s second overseas military
base after Djibouti. Hindustan Times and South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
Related Articles
- China launches 'One Belt One Road', raising objections and violent protests (14-May-2017)
- Massive China-Pakistan CPEC energy project said to end energy crisis 'soon' (23-Mar-2017)
- China-built railway in Kenya raises questions about 'debt trap diplomacy' (02-Jun-2017)
- Indians seek Kashmir solutions and blame CPEC intervention from Pakistan and China (22-Apr-2017)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Pakistan, Balochistan, Quetta, Mastung,
China, Hua Chunying, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al Alami, LeJA,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, CPEC, Gwadar sea port,
S. Akbar Zaidi, East India Company
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