KARACHI
\nStudents of Confucius Centre Karachi University staged protest in demand of justice against suicide attack on their three teachers on Friday.
\nThe students carried placards and Pakistan and China\u2019s flags, with slogans of \u201cPak-China friendship\u201d, \u201cterrorism is unacceptable\u201d and photographs of the deceased on their posters.
\nDirector of Confucius Institute Professor Dr Nasir Khan and security adviser Muhammad Zubair were also present at the protest.
\nThe students strongly condemned the suicide attack on their teachers and the Pakistani driver inside the university campus, and demanded immediate punishment for the perpetrators.
\nThey asked the university administration to make arrangements to restore their classes and ensure the safety of their teachers as soon as possible, adding that they wanted to continue learning the Chinese language.
\nTalking to the media, a student said that there are differences between the people of one nation and another, but that does not give anyone the right to hurt the other.
\nAnother student, Isha, said that people talk about CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor) and raise the slogan of Pak-China friendship, this friendship should go beyond learning languages and cultures but is obstructed by terrorism.
\n\u201cThis obstruction will actually be an obstacle in the way of development of Pakistan,\u201d she added.
\nAnother student of the Confucius Institute, Fatima, stated that it was unthinkable that such an abhorrent attack could be conducted in a place of learning, against innocent facilitators of education. She maintained that everyone should be guaranteed safety in a university, regardless of what they were coming to learn.
\nSyeda Farwa, a protestor, claimed that it was now the responsibility of the Pakistani government to ensure that the Chinese government were aware that the terrorists were a different, separate entity.
\nProfessor Nasir Khan, strongly condemning the act, said that the terrorism against the Chinese teachers was not acceptable under any circumstances.
\nSeveral students were seen embracing each other, teary-eyed over the loss of their teachers.
\nEarlier this week, four people three Chinese nationals and a Pakistani man \u2013 were killed in an attack by a female suicide bomber outside the Chinese language centre inside the Karachi University on Tuesday.
\nFour others, including a Chinese national and Rangers personnel, were also injured in the blast that ripped through a van carrying the university teachers, Karachi police chief Ghulam Nabi Memon told the media at the scene of the attack.
\nRaja Umar Khattab, the head of the Counter-terrorism Department, confirmed that it was a suicide attack carried out by a woman outside the Confucius Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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