China has pledged to work with Pakistan to advance “high-level security cooperation” and ensure the two countries’ flagship infrastructure project is “safe”, as terrorism continues to disrupt a key region for the Belt and Road Initiative.
Liu Haixing, head of the party’s International Department, sent the messages during separate meetings with Pakistan’s top military leader Asim Munir and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday, as part of his first official visit to the South Asian country since taking office just over a year ago.
In his meeting with Munir, Liu told Pakistan’s chief of defence forces that Beijing stands ready to deepen exchanges with Islamabad on statecraft and pursue the development of the “2.0” version of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), according to a statement from the Chinese department on Monday.