The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia's New Geopolitics (56 page)

    
1996

    
fall of Kabul to the Taliban
127

    
1997

    
fall of Mazar-e-Sharif to the Taliban
127

    
1998

    
United States cruise missile strikes
44
.

    
2000

    
CICIR delegation meets with Taliban
128
,
177

    
Lu Shulin meets with Taliban
128
–
9

    
2001

    
destruction of Bamiyan Buddhas
130

    
Kunduz airlift
136

    
2001–2014

    
Afghanistan War
x
,
xii
,
2
,
4
–
5
,
73
,
83
,
89
,
109
,
117
,
118
,
119
,
120
,
130
–
43
,
151
–
2
,
157
–
62
,
163

    
2002

    
reopening of Chinese embassy in Kabul
118

    
2003

    
Cessna 402B plane crash in Arabian Sea
117
–
19

    
2004

    
killing of Chinese workers in Kunduz
135

    
2007

    
Chinese consortium wins Aynak mining contract
120
,
133
,
137

    
2008

    
Indian embassy bombing in Kabul
114

    
2009

    
Camp Chapman attack
156

    
2010

    
United States drone strike in Baghdis province
146

    
International Conference on Afghanistan, Kabul
158

    
2011

    
International Conference on Afghanistan, Istanbul
142
,
160

    
International Conference on Afghanistan, Bonn
142
,
160

    
oil contract awarded to China National Petroleum Corporation
139

    
2012

    
Zhou Yongkang visits Kabul
142
–
3
,
160

    
2014

    
Kabul restaurant attack
188

Ahmed Shah Masoud
125

Ahmed, Aziz
17

Ahmed, Nur
72
–
3

Ahmed, Shamshad
55

Aijazuddin, Fakir Syed

    
From a Head, Through a Head, To a Head
185

‘Airlift of Evil’
136

AK-47s
see
Kalashnikov rifles

Akayev, Askar
134

Akhund, Iqbal
12

Akhund, Mullah Mohammad Issa
130

Akhund, Mullah Muhammad Hassan
128

Akhundzada, Mullah Abdul Razzaq
129

Aksai Chin
22

Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
69

Al Qaeda
xi
,
xii
,
44
,
78
,
82
,
84
,
87
,
109
,
118
,
127
,
132
,
134
,
136
,
145
–
6
,
156

Ali, Chaudhry Muhammad
xiii

‘all-weather friendship’
3
,
19
,
31
,
53

Alpetkin, Isa
67

Amu Darya field, Afghanistan
140
–
1

AN/ALR-
69
Radar Warning Receiver
38

Andijon massacre (Kyrgyzstan)
134

l’Aquila, Italy
87

Arabian Sea
xi
,
115
,
117

Argentina
119

Ariana Afghan Airlines
129

Armitage, Richard
83
,
132

arms trade
2
,
12
,
15
,
16
,
19
,
30
–
1
,
36
–
9
,
52
,
77
–
8
,
81
,
107
–
8
,
115
,
125
–
6
,
134
,
150
,
152

Arunachal Pradesh, India
53

Asian financial crisis (1997)
168

Assam, India
17
,
77

Attabad Lake, Gojal
99

Australia
119

Austria
49
–
52

Aynak, Afghanistan
118
–
21
,
132
,
135
,
137
–
9
,
141
,
159

Ayub Khan, Muhammad
9
,
17
,
18
,
21
,
23
,
24
,
31
,
76
,
106

Ayub Khan: Pakistan’s First Military Ruler
186

Aziz, Sartaj
58

Aziz, Shaukat
xiii

Babur cruise missiles
41

Badaber, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
20

Badakhshan province, Afghanistan
121
,
123
,
134

Baghdis province, Afghanistan
146

Bagram, Afghanistan
75

Baloch Liberation Army
102

Balochistan
44
,
54
,
100
–
3
,
104
–
5
,
109
,
133
,
167

    
Chagai hills
41

    
Gwadar
x
–
xi
,
xv
,
4
,
53
,
65
,
93
,
100
–
3
,
104
–
5
,
109
,
115
,
137
,
156
,
167
,
171
,
176

    
Quetta
101
,
129
,
133
,
137
,
162

    
Saindak gold and copper mine
118

Baluch Welfare Society
93

Baluch, Nisar
93

Bamiyan, Afghanistan
130

Bandung Conference
21

Bangalore, India
170

Bangladesh
10
–
16
,
17
,
19
,
77
,
170

Baren, Xinjiang
74
,
75

Bass, Gary

    
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
187

    
Baute, Jacques
27

BCIM (Bangladesh China India Myanmar) Economic Corridor
170
,
178

Beijing, China
67

    
1989
Tiananmen Square protests
48
,
149

    
2008
Summer Olympic Games xiii,
69
,
84
–
5
,
90
,
146

    
2013
Tiananmen Square attack
176
–
7

Beijing Municipal Revolutionary Committee
94

Bekri, Nur
86

Belgium
50

Bhutto, Benazir
xii
,
xvi
,
43
,
112
,
151
,
166

Bhutto, Zulfiqar Ali
9
–
14
,
16
,
17
,
18
–
19
,
23
–
5
,
30
,
31
,
39
,
100
,
112
,
149

Bin Laden, Osama
xi
–
xii
,
xv
,
16
,
67
,
82
,
127
,
145
,
155
–
7
,
184

Bin Sultan, Bandar
42

Bin Sultan, Khaled
42
,
43

Blood Telegram
,
The
187

Bogra, Muhammad Ali
21

Bonn, Germany
142
,
160

BRICS
98
,
170

British Army
117

    
Royal Corps of Engineers
109

Brookings Institution
187

brothels
ix
,
133
,
135
,
185

Brussels, Belgium
50

Brzezinski, Zbigniew
35
,
149

Buddhas of Bamiyan
130

Bureau of Architectural Technology
33

Burma
77
,
153
,
180
;
see also
Myanmar

Bush, George Walker
50
,
55
,
130
,
150

C-130 Hercules
see
Lockheed C-130 Hercules

CAC/
PAC JF-17 Thunder
108
,
154
,
156
,
171

Calcutta, India
170

Cambodia
180

Campbell, Kurt
163

Canada
49

Capital Worker-Peasant Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Teams
94

Carter, James Earl ‘Jimmy’
35

Caspian Sea
169

CCTV (China Central Television)
130

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
187

CENTO (Central Treaty Organization)
20

Centrifuge technology
39

Cessna 402B aircraft
117

Chagai hills, Balochistan
41

Chagmalai, South Waziristan
110

Chaklala airbase, Rawalpindi
171

Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
88

Chashma complex, Punjab
62
–
4
,
171
,
175
,
184

Chaudhry, Ifitkhar
167

Chechnya
75
,
177

Chen Xiaogong
130

Chen Yi
18
,
19
,
24

Cheng Jingye
51

Cheng Xiaohe

    
‘China’s Aid toward Pakistan in the India-Pakistan War II’
186

Chengdu, Sichuan
94

Chengdu Aircraft Industrial Corporation
108

Chennai, India
170

CHIC-4 (nuclear bomb)
28

China, People’s Republic of

    
1950–1953

    
Korean War
32

    
1954

    
Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence (Panchsheel Treaty)
20

    
1955

    
Taiwan Strait Crisis
32

    
1959

    
Sino-Pakistani border map controversy
21

    
1960

    
meetings with India to resolve border dispute
22

    
1960–1989

    
Sino-Soviet split
20
,
35

    
1962

    
Sino-Indian War
3
,
21
,
22
–
5
,
122

    
1963

    
Sino-Pakistani Agreement
24
,
107

    
Sino-Afghan Boundary Treaty
24

    
1965

    
Indo-Pakistani War
3
,
9
,
17
–
19
,
186

    
1966–1976

    
Cultural Revolution
70
,
93
–
4
,
95
,
107

    
1968

    
Mian Arshad Hussain visits Beijing
93
–
4

    
1969

    
Sino-Soviet border conflict
14
–
15
,
57

    
1971

    
Indo-Pakistani War
3
,
10
–
16
,
29
,
183

    
1979

    
establishment of diplomatic relations with United States
33
,
37
–
9