Two Chinese nationals wounded in Pakistan's largest city

Two Chinese nationals were wounded in Pakistan's largest city on Tuesday, a hospital official said, after a spate of targeted attacks prompted Beijing to demand tighter security for its citizens.
Beijing is a crucial ally for cash-strapped Pakistan but Chinese-funded infrastructure projects have sparked resentment and its nationals are routinely targeted by militant groups.
Tuesday's incident took place near an industrial district of the southern port city of Karachi, a provincial minister told the media.
"Both are under treatment, but I cannot comment on their condition," a senior health official at the Liaquat National Hospital told the media, asking not to be identified.
Beijing demanded tighter security last month after a massive blast targeting a convoy of Chinese workers in Karachi killed two of its nationals.
Weeks after the attack, media reported that the Chinese ambassador to Pakistan Jiang Zaidong labelled the violence "unacceptable".
Police did not give any details about Tuesday's incident but provincial home minister Zia Ul Hassan Lanjar asked authorities "to arrest the security guard involved" in protecting the Chinese nationals, according to a statement by his office.
He also ordered "an audit of all companies providing security to Chinese nationals and foreigners".
China has poured tens of billions of dollars into Pakistan to fund massive transport, energy and infrastructure projects — part of Beijing's transnational "Belt and Road" scheme.
Several of the projects are housed in southwestern Balochistan province, where Pakistan's military has been fighting a decades-long insurgency, sparking a series of targeted attacks primarily carried out by the separatist Baloch Liberation Army (BLA).

Agence France-Presse