China Pakistan Relations: Anti-China sentiments increasing in Pakistan? Many Chinese businesses closed in Karachi

In Karachi, Pakistan, the police have closed the businesses of some Chinese citizens. These include a restaurant, a supermarket and a marine-products company. This step has been taken in view of the possibility of attack on Chinese citizens. According to the news agency ANI, Pakistan fears that the terrorist attacks on the Chinese may lead to a rift in the relations between the two countries. Anti-China sentiment is increasing.

Explain that a Chinese citizen working on a dam in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan was taken into custody by the local police on charges of blasphemy. According to local media reports, the man, an engineer at a China Gezhouba Group company, had a heated argument with local workers over long breaks for prayers and slow work during Ramadan.

Pakistan’s anti-terrorism court has sent a Chinese national accused of blasphemy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to judicial custody for 14 days. He was taken to Abbottabad in an army helicopter for security reasons, as the police feared that local people might harm him. The newspaper reported that the Anti-Terrorism Court of Abbottabad sent Tian, ​​arrested on charges of blasphemy, to judicial custody for 14 days. It is notable that Pakistan’s strict blasphemy law provides for the death penalty if the crime is proved.