Pakistan’s Post-Bombing High-Wire Act

Pakistani police investigating the site of a suicide attack against Chinese engineers by the seperatist militia the Baloch Liberation Army on Sunday. Image: Rizwan Tabassum / AFP.

Pakistan’s hosting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Council of Heads of Government meeting on October 15 and 16 is happening as the country is scrambling to contain the fallout of a bombing attack on a group of Chinese engineers on Sunday.

The meeting is a diplomatic milestone for Islamabad, but it also heightens attention on Pakistani officials’ attempts to deal with the aftermath of the latest attack by separatist terrorists on Chinese targets. Security is emerging as one of the key sticking points in the China-Pakistan relationship.

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