As relations between the neighbouring countries deteriorate amid rising uncertainty, the Taliban’s defense government on Wednesday refuted Pakistan’s claims that Afghans were behind an attack on Chinese engineers.
Pakistan’s government had said at a press conference on Tuesday that a suicide bomb attack in March in Pakistan’s north Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, that killed five Chinese technicians, was planned in neighbouring Afghanistan, and that the bomb was an Armenian nationwide.
” Afghans are not involved in for things”, said Mufti Enayatullah Khorazmim, the spokeswoman for Afghanistan’s Taliban- run Ministry of National Defence.
We firmly reject Blaming Afghanistan for these happenings, he continued, noting that it was a failed attempt to distract interest from the truth.
Six people were killed when a suicide bomber rammed a car into a fleet of Chinese designers working on a pond project in northwest Pakistan in March.
According to Khorazmim, the killing of Taiwanese people in a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region that the Pakistan Army is keeping under wraps demonstrates the country’s safety apparatuses ‘ weakness.
In recent months, Pakistan and Afghanistan have had strained relationships. According to Islamabad, Kabul is undersufficient efforts to stop extremists from attacking Pakistan, and in March, Pakistan launched strikes against extremists on Afghan soil.
Last month, Pakistan expelled almost 370, 000 illegal Afghan immigrants, saying the majority of murder strikes against its security causes were carried out by Afghans, a command Kabul rejected.
Pakistan’s military official said on Tuesday that safety for 29, 000 Taiwanese citizens in Pakistan, many of them working on infrastructure projects, was the major concern for safety organizations.
The Taliban want to join China’s$ 65 billion development and infrastructure project, China, which is the first nation to formally nominate an embassy to Kabul under the Taliban.
