Pakistan will not protect Chinese workers

Security for Chinese workers in Pakistan will always be elusive

For years now, Pakistan has been stuck in a cycle: Militants launch a deadly attack that kills Chinese workers operating in the country. Islamabad vows to improve security for them. Another attack arrives anyway.
 
Ayesha Siddiqa, a senior fellow with the department of war studies at King's College London, is skeptical the cycle will be broken anytime soon. One issue is that Islamabad keeps getting distracted from the protection mission.
 
Further, she argues, Chinese investment, even the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, isn't so much a priority right now, given domestic political and economic crises and a desire to bring in other foreign investors. "In a broader sense, Islamabad's focus has drifted away from the CPEC and China's ongoing projects," she writes.