Kunwar Khuldune Shahid

China is the latest victim of Pakistan’s Islamist problem

The aftermath of Wednesday's bus attack, which killed 12 people, nine of whom were Chinese (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

Nine Chinese engineers were killed in an explosion near Pakistan’s Dasu hydroelectric dam last Wednesday. The government initially said that their bus suffered a ‘mechanical failure’ after it plunged into a ravine, but officials eventually admitted that the incident was a terror attack after Beijing decided to send its own investigators.

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