BEIJING – China on Monday said Pakistan made important sacrifices andcontributions to the cause of anti-terrorism and finger pointing at eachother was not conducive to the global counter terrorism efforts.
“As we stressed many times that Pakistan has made important sacrifices andcontributions to the global anti-terrorism cause and the countries shouldstrengthen anti terrorism cooperation on the basis of mutual respectinstead of finger pointing at each other. This is not conducive to theglobal counter terrorism efforts,” Spokesperson of Chinese Foreign MinistryLu Kang said during his regular press briefing here.
Acknowledging, once again, Pakistan s sacrifices and contributions to theglobal anti-terrorism cause, he said the Chinese side opposed linking ofterrorism with any certain country and disagreed to place theresponsibility of counter terrorism on a certain country.
“First and the foremost I would like to say that terrorism is common enemyof the world and cracking down on the terrorism needs joint efforts fromthe international community,” he added.
On the China’s continuous support to Pakistan in its anti terrorismcampaign especially during the recent weeks, he commented that actually,China was defending the countries that had been making anti terrorismefforts in a just and fair way.
The spokesperson said China also welcomed all the global joint efforts interms of counter terrorism on the basis of mutual trust and mutual respect.——————————
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Days later, US placed Pakistan on watch list for religious freedomviolations and announced to suspend security assistance to Pakistantargeting Coalition Support Funds (CSF).
United States administration said it is suspending security assistance toPakistan targeting the CSF that the US pays to Pakistan to reimburse it forits counter-terrorism operations.