China dismisses report of military patrols in Afghanistan

[ahojunk]

| Wed Nov 30, 2016 | 5:26am EST | Reuters
China dismisses report of military patrols in Afghanistan

China's Defence Ministry on Wednesday dismissed reports Chinese military vehicles were patrolling inside Afghanistan, after an Indian media outlet said Chinese security forces were making regular patrols there.

India's WION news outlet this month published pictures on its website showing what it said were likely Chinese security forces patrolling in Afghanistan's far northeastern Little Pamir region, where the country shares a border with China.

Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun dismissed the report.

"Reports in foreign media of Chinese military vehicles patrolling inside Afghanistan do not accord with the facts," he told a regular news briefing.

Yang said China and Afghanistan did work together in some places to fight terrorist activity and cross-border crime.

"In recent years, law enforcement bodies from China and Afghanistan, in accordance with a bilateral cooperation decision on strengthening border law enforcement, arranged to have joint law enforcement operations in border regions," Yang added.

He did not elaborate.

The Indian report was also denied in Kabul by an Afghan official, who asked not to identified as he is not authorized to speak to the media.

China has long been concerned that instability in Afghanistan will spill over into the violence-prone Xinjiang region, home to the Muslim Uighur people, where hundreds have died in recent years in unrest blamed by Beijing on Islamist militants.

China is also working with Pakistan and the United States to broker peace talks to end Afghanistan's Taliban insurgency that has raged there for 15 years.


(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Additional reporting by Hamid Shalizi in Kabul; Editing by Robert Birsel)


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Damn, India's WION news outlet is caught lying.
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[AndrewJin]

| Wed Nov 30, 2016 | 5:26am EST | Reuters
China dismisses report of military patrols in Afghanistan

China's Defence Ministry on Wednesday dismissed reports Chinese military vehicles were patrolling inside Afghanistan, after an Indian media outlet said Chinese security forces were making regular patrols there.

India's WION news outlet this month published pictures on its website showing what it said were likely Chinese security forces patrolling in Afghanistan's far northeastern Little Pamir region, where the country shares a border with China.

Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun dismissed the report.

"Reports in foreign media of Chinese military vehicles patrolling inside Afghanistan do not accord with the facts," he told a regular news briefing.

Yang said China and Afghanistan did work together in some places to fight terrorist activity and cross-border crime.

"In recent years, law enforcement bodies from China and Afghanistan, in accordance with a bilateral cooperation decision on strengthening border law enforcement, arranged to have joint law enforcement operations in border regions," Yang added.

He did not elaborate.

The Indian report was also denied in Kabul by an Afghan official, who asked not to identified as he is not authorized to speak to the media.

China has long been concerned that instability in Afghanistan will spill over into the violence-prone Xinjiang region, home to the Muslim Uighur people, where hundreds have died in recent years in unrest blamed by Beijing on Islamist militants.

China is also working with Pakistan and the United States to broker peace talks to end Afghanistan's Taliban insurgency that has raged there for 15 years.


(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Additional reporting by Hamid Shalizi in Kabul; Editing by Robert Birsel)


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Damn, India's WION news outlet is caught lying.
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What can u expect from them?
They never care about their own people in the countryside, but always make lies about foreign countries.
So funny

 

[Shotgunner51]

Special Forces conducted combat training in the region near Kashgar last week, not "military patrolling" inside Afghanistan. Even if some officers or vehicles show up in Afghanistan, very likely were just temporary arrangement/logistics for the combat training. See below:

Pakistan, Afghan & Tajik army officers attend anti-terror meeting
December 02, 2016

Mid-ranking military officers and attachés from China, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan, attended a symposium on counter terrorism at the Special Operations College of the People's Liberation Army in Beijing last week, said the Chinese Defence Ministry. The participants exchanged experience on strengthening counter-terrorism capacity and cooperation.

The delegates also went to Kashgar, a city located in the south western part of the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region to watch the region's Special Forces conduct counter-terrorism combat training on Monday. China, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan are members of a quadrilateral counter-terrorism mechanism established in August in response to the threat of terrorism and extremism. The symposium is part of the four-nation mechanism scheduled work aiming to strengthen practical counter-terrorism cooperation and enhance their ability to jointly respond to threats of terrorism.

http://www.brecorder.com/general-ne...jik-army-officers-attend-anti-terror-meeting/

 

[Rasengan]

What can u expect from them?
They never care about their own people in the countryside, but always make lies about foreign countries.
So funny

The Indian media is bloody dumb...The border between China and Afghanistan is so peaceful that the people over there didn't know the Taliban or a civil war even existed. So why would China do a military patrol. The Haqqani network controls the military operations of the Taliban and they are controlled by ISI..so why would they attack China...dumb Indians.