KARACHI: Amid the escalation of hostilities between Pakistan and Iran, Chinese Consul General in Karachi Yang Yundong on Thursday said Beijing would like to play a constructive role in settling differences between Islamabad and Tehran.
“China would like to ask Pakistan and Iran that we will like to play a constructive role to settle the differences between the two countries,” Yundong said exclusively interview to niji tv.
To a question on Iran’s blatant breach of Pakistan’s sovereignty by launching a missile attack in Balochistan, he said Pakistan and Iran were the major countries in the region and Muslim world, so China hoped that the differences between them could be solved through talks and other peaceful ways.
On January 17, Pakistan had warned Iran of serious consequences after Tehran violated Pakistan’s airspace that claimed lives of two Pakistanis and injured multiple others.
“Pakistan strongly condemns the unprovoked violation of its airspace by Iran which resulted in death of two innocent children while injuring three girls,” Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch had said in a statement