Pakistani leaders condemn killing of Chinese engineers
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-02-16 14:42

Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz have strongly condemned the killing of 3 Chinese engineers and their Pakistani driver in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan.

According to a state-run APP report on Thursday, the two Pakistani leaders termed the killing as "an act of blatant terrorism" and said that the government would take all measures to bring the culprits to task.

The report said that they directed the provincial government to gear up their efforts to arrest the miscreants immediately. The president and the prime minister expressed heartfelt sympathies with the bereaved families.

Three Chinese engineers and their Pakistani driver were killed on Wednesday afternoon when their car was attacked by gunmen on a road in the town of Hub, some 700 km southeast of Quetta, the Balochistan provincial capital. Three other Chinese also in the car survived without injury.