Overseas Chinese Companies Must Integrate With Locals To Prevent Potential Terror Attacks: Experts

BEIJING, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 13th Aug, 2018 ) :Chinese counter-terrorism experts have said that overseas Chinese companies should integrate with local people to prevent potential terror attacks.

Overseas Chinese companies should work closely with local authorities, establish clear communication channels with security organizations and integrate with local people in better dealing with potential terror attacks, Zhao Huirong, a research fellow of Central Asian studies at the Chinese academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, told the Global Times on Monday.

They should strengthen management and avoid potential safety hazards by enhancing employers' safety awareness, Zhao said.

The remarks came after a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden truck near a bus on Saturday in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan, injuring three Chinese workers, two local security personnel and a civilian driver.

A Chinese staff member at an Islamabad-based security service provider said that if a Chinese company is participating in a project of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor in Pakistan then the local authorities provide security. If not, the company must hire security personnel itself.

"The province of Balochistan is a region in Pakistan where terrorist activities are relatively intense. Separatist forces there believe that any development activity in their 'territories' violates their interests, and that is the reason why they launch terror attacks," Li Wei, a counter-terrorism expert at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations in Beijing, said.

For the Gwadar Port project, the Pakistani government arranged 10,000 national army soldiers and 10,000 local armed forces to protect the joint project and ensure the construction.