Chinese diplomats in Islamabad and Kabul were forced into action by Pakistan’s failure to prevent a surge in such cross-border terrorist attacks from Afghanistan, as well as from Iran, they said.
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The Chinese diplomats are “searching for alternative ways” of persuading Afghanistan’s Taliban regime to rein in the thousands of Pakistani Taliban militants it granted safe havens to after seizing power in 2021, according to a source in Islamabad who sought anonymity because of political sensitivities.
Chinese diplomats based in Islamabad have told influential Pakistanis that they felt “back-stabbed” by the Afghan Taliban government for refusing to restrain the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) faction that Islamabad holds responsible for a vehicular suicide bombing attack in March, which claimed the lives of five Chinese nationals working in northern Pakistan, along with their Pakistani bus driver.
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