2 Chinese teachers kidnapped in Pakistan
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ARMED men pretending to be police kidnapped two Chinese language teachers in the Pakistani city of Quetta yesterday, provincial officials said.
China has pledged to invest US$57 billion in Pakistani road, rail and power infrastructure in a flagship project of its vast Belt and Road initiative for a network of modern-day “Silk Road” routes connecting Asia with Europe and Africa.
China’s ambassador to Pakistan and other officials have often urged Islamabad to improve security, especially in the province of Baluchistan, where China is building a new port and funding roads to link its western regions with the Arabian Sea.
Anwar ul Haq Kakar, a Baluchistan government spokesman, said men pretending to be police kidnapped the teachers and wounded a passer-by who tried to stop them.
“(The passer-by) inquired why they were doing this and they said they were from a law enforcement agency, but when he asked for their identification cards, they shot him,” Kakar said.
No group has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping, but in the past Islamist militant groups have kidnapped foreigners in Pakistan for ransom or publicity.
Quetta police chief Razza Cheema said the teachers did not work on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project. Another Chinese woman narrowly evaded the kidnappers outside a language center in Jinnah, near the international airport on the city’s outskirts, he said.
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