Pakistan Punjab CM Maryam Nawaz says Chinese nationals get 'resentful' when asked to follow security protocols
Maryam Nawaz on Friday said that Chinese nationals living in Pakistan get «resentful» when they are asked to follow security protocols, a week after five Chinese engineers were among six killed in a suicide bombing in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Maryam, the daughter of three-time former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who became the first-ever woman chief minister of a province in Pakistan, while addressing her maiden Apex Committee meeting here said «the Chinese living here do not want to follow security discipline».
«They are resentful when they are asked to follow security protocols. They don't want to come under any discipline as they fret over it,» she added.
The meeting was also attended by Corps Commander Lahore Lt Gen Syed Aamer Raza and other senior military officers.
Maryam, however, expressed her government's resolve to provide fool-proof security to the Chinese nationals working on development projects in Punjab. The meeting also condemned the killing of Chinese engineers in Bisham.
Five Chinese engineers — and their Pakistani driver — were killed in the suicide bombing last week while travelling between Islamabad and a hydroelectric dam construction site in Dasu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The bus was attacked in Bisham city of Shangla district.
Maryam said terrorism has taken the shape of difficult warfare. «Terrorists got digitalised and we need to be ahead of them on such platforms. Besides, terrorists have the latest
