The three Chinese technicians who survived a
gun attack in southwestern Pakistan earlier in the week returned home on
Friday along with seven other colleagues working on the same project.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Prime
Minister Shaukat Aziz on Thursday sent messages of condolences to their
Chinese counterparts respectively over the death of three Chinese
engineers in Pakistan.
The murder of three Chinese engineers in
southwest Pakistan will not mar the Sino-Pakistani ties, Chinese
Ambassador to Pakistan Zhang Chunxiang said here
Friday.
The airplane, on board the remains of three Chinese engineers killed in Pakistan, will arrive at Urumqi, capital of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, around 5:00 p.m. Friday.
The Chinese Government sent a task force
organized by the Foreign Ministry to Karachi Thursday to help deal with
the aftermath of three Chinese engineers' death in
Pakistan.
China has announced that it will not
evacuate engineers and technicians from Pakistan after three Chinese
engineers were shot dead in Pakistan on
Wednesday.
Chinese President Hu Jintao showed deep
concern for the safety of the Chinese engineers in Pakistan after three
Chinese were killed there by gunmen on
Wednesday.
The bodies of the three Chinese killed
in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan were brought to a
hospital early Thursday morning in the country's southern city of
Karachi.
Pakistani police said that they would
investigate the incident in which three Chinese engineers and a Pakistani
driver were shot dead on Wednesday in the country's southwestern province
of Balochistan.
The Pakistani government strongly
condemned the killing of three Chinese engineers in Pakistan's
southwestern province of Balochistan, according to a Pakistani foreign
office statement here Wednesday.
Three Chinese engineers and a Pakistani
driver were shot dead in the southwestern Pakistani province of
Baluchistan on Wednesday, Chinese diplomats in Karachi told Xinhua.