Amid Indo-US bonhomie, Pakistan Army Chief Gen. Raheel Sharif on Sunday met China’s military top brass here with the two sides agreeing to enhance long-term bilateral defence collaboration, intelligence sharing and counter-terrorism cooperation.
Gen. Sharif’s visit comes as US President Barack Obama warms up to India with an unprecedented second visit. Pakistan is under pressure from both India and the US over the issue of terrorism with calls to impose a complete ban on Jamaat-ud-Dawa and its chief, Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed. The Pakistan Army Chief, who is here on a two-day visit, reviewed a guard of honour along with his Chinese counterpart Gen. Qi Jianguo, at the People’s Liberation Army Headquarters and then held talks with him.
“COAS held extensive meeting with his counterpart. Full range of regional security, defence related issues discussed,” Pakistan military spokesperson Major Gen. Asim Bajwa tweeted. “Enhanced long-term defence collaboration, security and counter-terrorism cooperation, intelligence sharing, training exchanges decided,” he said. Gen. Sharif also called on General Fan Changlong, vice-chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, this morning and briefed him about the crackdown against terrorists in Pakistan. Gen. Fan conveyed China’s support to Pakistan in its offensive against the militants. They discussed operations against militants in the border areas. Gen. Fan praised Pakistan’s military offensive codenamed “Zarb-i-Azb”, terming it as a “decisive, indiscriminate, bold and hard blow for terrorists,” Maj. Gen. Bajwa said.
The two countries have stepped up security to prevent infiltration of Uygur militants.
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