From: Stasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: China threatens to walk out on Pak military port project HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- Monday, January 07, 2002 10:02 PM China threatens to walk out on Pak military port project PTI [ MONDAY, JANUARY 07, 2002 3:43:34 PM ] NEW DELHI: China is understood to have threatened to pull out of a major Pakistani project to develop the Gwadar port as a full-fledged military base to protest Islamabad's handing over of two airports to the US for operations in Afghanistan, informed sources said on Monday. The sources said President Pervez Musharraf, who was in Beijing before going to Kathmandu for the Saarc summit, was asked to explain the backdrop in which the US was allowed exclusive access to the two major airports at Jacobabad and Pasni. They said Beijing was upset that the US had also reportedly been allowed to set up some listening posts in the Northern Areas to monitor any nuclear or army activities in the region, which borders China's Xinjiang province and Tibet. Beijing feels the US forces could launch "third country operations" from Pakistan using these facilities in the long run, though these were exclusively meant for the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan, the sources said. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
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