China envoy speaks with Pakistan PM on tensions with India

China understands Pakistan’s legitimate security concerns and supports its efforts to safeguard national sovereignty and security interests, the press release quoted Jiang as saying.

He expressed China’s support for a prompt and impartial investigation into the Pahalgam incident and called on both India and Pakistan to exercise restraint, meet each other halfway, properly manage differences and jointly safeguard regional peace and stability, the release said.
Sharif briefed Jiang on recent tensions and expressed appreciation for China’s constructive efforts to promote peace and stability in South Asia and to help de-escalate the situation, according to the release.

‘History with extremist groups’

Pakistan Peoples Party chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari Friday said that the country had a past with extremist groups and it had suffered because of it.

Bilawal was answering a question asked during an interview on Thursday on whether he agreed with Defence Minister Khwaja Asif’s controversial remark last week that his country “did the West’s dirty work for decades”.

“I don’t think it’s a secret that Pakistan has a past as far as extremist groups are concerned. And as a result of this, we have suffered. Pakistan has suffered. We’ve gone through wave after wave of extremism… We went through the Islamisation and militarisation of our society. But as a result of what we suffered, we also learnt our lessons,” he said.

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