It is Sharif’s first trip to China since starting his second term as prime minister in March. His visit comes amid concerns about security in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan and northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, the site of a number of major Chinese infrastructure projects under the multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
In the latest in a string of attacks targeting personnel working on Chinese projects, five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver were killed in a suicide bombing on their way to the Dasu hydropower dam project in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in March.
Islamabad said it arrested 11 militants accused of being involved in the attack. It said the suicide bomber who targeted the Chinese convoy was an Afghan national.
One of the deadliest acknowledged attacks was in July 2021, when a suicide bomber on a bus killed 13 people, including nine Chinese…
