China, Pakistan, Afghanistan FMs call for moderate Muslim policy in Afghanistan after US troops withdrawal
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Last Updated: Jun 04, 2021, 06:49 PM IST
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Afghan Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar and their Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi held their fourth China-sponsored trilateral meeting via video conference on Thursday.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosts the 4th China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers Dialogue via video conference.
China, Afghanistan and Pakistan have underlined that after the withdrawal of the US troops from Afghanistan, the country should pursue a moderate Muslim policy amid Beijing s growing concern over the return of the Taliban and the Islamic State and its likely impact on its volatile Xinjiang province.
The LoC had been on edge since the beginning of 2019, when India carried out air strikes on a terror camp in Balakot. Two years later, launch pads in PoK are far from dormant.
Army jawans stand guard at the LoC in Pooch sector, Jammu & Kashmir (PTI photo)
Hundred days at the Line of Control (LoC) have passed without a bullet being fired between Indian and Pakistani forces, bringing in a sense of calm for civilians. But the terror infrastructure in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir are far from being dormant, despite the dip in skirmishes between the two armies.
A flurry of intelligence inputs continues to pour in about terrorist activities in their hideouts close to the LoC in areas under control of the Pakistan Army.
Over the last one month as the guns fell silent, terrorist training camps were active and groups, possibly for infiltration, gathered across the LoC, sources said.
It’s no coincidence that the China-Pakistan military exercise in Tibet comes amid celebrations marking 70 years of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries which share
Unfamiliar with PLA’s information war, and worried about its excellent border management and military power supporting it, India, in the one year of the Ladakh crisis threw in the towel on three occasions.