ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Ishaq Dar expressed solidarity with China on the killing of its three nationals in a militant attack in Tajikistan and condemned the loss of lives in an inferno a high-rise apartment complex in Hong Kong last week, state media said on Sunday.
The attack took place last Wednesday when the Chinese nationals were working for a gold-extraction company in southern Tajikistan. The Chinese nationals were targeted in an attack that Tajik authorities say was carried out from across the border with Afghanistan. Tajikistan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement subsequently that the assault targeted a compound belonging to Shohin SM, a private gold-mining company operating in the Shamsiddin Shohin district along the Tajik–Afghan frontier.
Dar condemned the incident, as well as the deaths of over 128 people in a fire in Hong Kong last week as he met Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Jiang Zaidong in Islamabad on Sunday.
“The DPM/FM expressed condolences over the tragic killing of three Chinese nationals in Tajikistan, near the Afghan border,” the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) reported.
“He also extended heartfelt sympathies for the loss of lives and all those affected by the recent devastating fires in the Wang Fuk Court residential complex in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.”
