China, Pakistan secretly working on virus deadlier than COVID-19 at Pak lab: Report

Pakistan and China have been continuing ir research into bioweapons in a secret facility near Rawalpindi, a new report by ANI stated on Sunday, November 6. China's Wuhan Institute of Virology and Pakistan Army-run, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), have installed  highly-vanced scientific infrastructure to conduct research on dely pathogens in Pakistan, sources told agency. exact location of facility, although, was not disclosed as it remains a tightly guarded secret, according to Geo-Politik.  secret project under which Pakistan and China have been researching pathogens is titled: Collaboration for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Studies on Biological Control of Vector Transmitting Diseases. 

Pathogens with contamination on scale higher than COVID-19

China has been researching coronavirus-like pathogens in Pakistan. Such viruses have potential of public contamination on a scale far higher than COVID-19, which is still prevalent, if leaked. In 2020, Pakistan did not refute  reports or clarified wher China h  Biolabs set up in Islamab. Pakistan's Foreign Office, in a statement, said that “re is nothing secret about Bio-Safety Level-3 (BSL-3) Laboratory of Pakistan referred to in report." All States Parties were aware of aforementioned Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention (BTWC) in its submission of Confidence Building Measures, FO furr noted in its statement.

Pakistan justified dely pathogen research, indicating that it is for purpose of diagnostic and protective system improvement through Research and Development on emerging health threats, surveillance, and disease outbreak investigation. According to Geo-Politik, said bioweapon laboratory of Pakistan is a “Biosafety Level 4” facility (BSL-4) where most dangerous and infective agents are tested and developed. DSTO is located in Chaklala cantonment, Rawalpindi, and is heed by a two-star General, report stated. China outsourced a highly contagious network of laboratories to Pakistan where highly contagious antigens, much more than SARS-CoV-2, could be created and tested. " joint collaboration between Pakistan’s lab, managed by army, and a series of laboratories and institutions run by PLA, was not for scientific experiments but to weaponise pathogens," report furr suggested.