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China provided Pakistan with air defense and satellite support during its recent military confrontation with India, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing a think tank affiliated with the Indian Defense Ministry.
Ashok Kumar, director general at the Centre for Joint Warfare Studies in New Delhi, said China assisted Pakistan in reorganizing its radar and air defense systems, enabling them to more effectively detect Indian troop and weaponry deployments, according to the report.
“It helped them to redeploy their air defense radar so that any actions which we do from the aerial route are known to them,” Kumar told Bloomberg.
The aid indicates a more direct level of involvement from Beijing than was initially revealed, the report claimed. The think tank added that China also provided assistance to Pakistan in adjusting its satellite coverage over India during the 15-day period between the April 22 terror attacks in India’s Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and India’s strikes on suspected terror facilities in Pakistan-controlled territory on May 7.
China, which called on the South Asian countries to de-escalate during their four-day conflict, has traditionally enjoyed warm defense ties with Pakistan.
On Monday, Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar left for a three-day official visit to China at the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, according to a report by state-owned media outlet Radio Pakistan…
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