Pakistan-sponsored Terrorism to Figure in Meet with China - New Indian express
India is likely to raise its concerns over Pakistan-sponsored terrorism with China during the counter-terrorism meet, which will take place between the two countries on November 4 here.
According to top government officials, threat dynamics in China is fast-changing and with improvement in relations between the two countries, especially after India relaxed security concerns and started extending ease of doing business facility to the Chinese companies like Huawei, there is more to share between the two countries.
“Counter-terrorism is one such issue where both the countries can enhance cooperation by exchanging information and above all taking note of terrorist activities unleashed by Pakistan based terror outfits,” officials said.
Despite serious concerns raised by National Security Council Secretariat and intelligence agencies, India has given security clearance to at least 20 Chinese companies to do business under ‘Make in India’ initiative over the last couple of months.
Sources in the security establishment said China is well aware of Pakistan’s terror nurseries, and as recent as in January 2015, Afghanistan had extradited to China several Uighurs suspected of having been trained in terror camps in Pakistan.
Reportedly, 300 Chinese extremists in Xinjiang, which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan, fled to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State (IS). The terrorist outfit had also openly declared its territorial ambition towards Xinjiang province.
This was the reason, counter-terrorism figured prominently in the talks during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to China in May, where both the sides had reiterated their strong condemnation of and resolute opposition to terrorism in all its forms and committed themselves to cooperate on counter-terrorism.
“We expect China to acknowledge that Pakistan over a period of time has become a fertile ground for terrorists and safe haven for outfits behind the terror activities not only in South Asia, but across the globe,” sources said.
“On the other hand, India, which has been able to keep its youth away from joining the IS to a large extent, can help China to deal with issue of radicalisation,” they added.