Chinese workers shot in Pakistan

[Eugene]

Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Sunday, 8 July 2007, 17:50 GMT 18:50 UK

Chinese workers shot in Pakistan

Three Chinese workers have been shot dead in the city
of Peshawar in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province,
police say.

A fourth Chinese worker was hurt in the attack at an
auto-rickshaw factory.

"As they were coming out of their factory, they were
ambushed," an official of the provincial government
told Reuters news agency.

-snip-

A police officer told the AFP news agency they were
investigating the motive for Sunday's attack.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6282574.stm

[ohio2007]

1. Why are Chinese nationals being killed ?

from the article;

Several Chinese women were briefly held hostage recently at an Islamabad mosque now being besieged by security forces.
The women were accused by the mosque students of involvement in prostitution and were only freed after the authorities promised to shut down certain massage parlours in the capital.






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And what exactly were those Chinese women doing inside the red mosque in the first place ;)


shut down the massage parlours.....right.......

[seriousstan]

2. They were kidnapped and taken there to appear before a kangaroo Sharia court

[Eugene]

3. China is an important ally of Pakistan.

And Pakistan is an important conduit for oil from the Middle East and Africa.
According to this related Reuters article, Three Chinese dead in Pakistan
"terrorist" attack, China is mounting a big development effort there.