Analysts see Pakistan terror links to Xinjiang attack

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The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : Beijing's increasing jihadist challenge

Thirteen months before a missile fired from a Predator drone ended his life, the head of the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) videotaped his final testament at his base in Pakistan's troubled North Waziristan.

"My Muslim brothers in East Turkestan," said Memtimin Memet in a January 2009 address released on jihadist websites linked to al-Qaeda. "We failed to follow the tenets of our faith, and instead supported our enemies — who enforced communism upon us, raped our women, violated the sanctity of our homes, invaded our land, and stole our wealth." "Preparing to fight these atheist communists," a narrator continued, "is an obligation upon every Muslim."
For China, the killings are troubling news. Ever since 9/11, the TIP, like its sister-organisations targeting central Asia, has struggled to survive in the face of relentless assault by the United States and its allies, But, as the U.S. prepares to pull out of Afghanistan, Pakistan has ever-diminishing incentives to continue with its fitful — and destabilising — war against jihadist bases in North Waziristan. Fears are rising in China, as in much of central Asia, that the weekend violence in Xinjiang is but the first skirmish in a larger war ahead.
For centuries a protectorate of distant emperors in Beijing, Xinjiang became part of modern China in 1949 after decades of violent rebellions and wars.

Xingjian's Uighur community is estimated to make up eight to 10 million of the region's 21 million population — a population that includes a welter of ethnic groups, including other Chinese Muslims like the Hui, as well as clusters of Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks and Tajiks.
So here it is Xinjiang is also an occupied territory by hans.

But the birth of the modern Islamism in Xinjiang, as opposed to the traditionalist-leaning secessionists, was forged in another crucible: the great anti-Soviet Union jihad that tore Afghanistan apart from 1979. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Uighurs are reputed to have participated in the jihad, returning home empowered with the belief that a superpower could be successfully defeated through insurgent warfare. In 1993, Hasan Mahsum and Abdukadir Yapuquam, both residents of the town of Hotan, founded the ETIM to spearhead this cause. Both men are known to have met Osama bin Laden; their cadre fought alongside the Taliban.
So China has supported the mujahidin who fought against Soviets, now ETIM was formed in 1993, almost same as Taliban, hmm it's pay back

In February 1997, Xinjiang's jihadists took centre stage. Nine Uighurs were killed when police fired on violent mobs protesting the execution of several secessionist activists — a clash now known as the Ghulja incident. The TIP carried out its first major terrorist operation, bombing three buses in Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi — killing nine people, including three children, and injuring dozens.
From January 2007, evidence began to emerge of the lethality of the Pakistan-based jihadists' ambitions. That month, a raid on a training camp inside Xinjiang claimed the life of 18 insurgents. Investigators found an hour-long videotape, which included a call by the Syrian al-Qaeda ideologue Mustafa Setmariam Nasar mentioning China as a target for the global jihadist movement. The video also contained footage of Uighur jihadists training with assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, and shoulder-fired missiles.

Then, in 2008, startling evidence emerged during the trial of Malika el-Aroud — the wife of the assassin of the anti-Taliban Afghan warlord Ahmad Shah Massoud — and her new husband, Moez Garsallaoui. In 2008, in proceedings in a Belgian court, a witness — identified, for legal reasons, only by the initials 'WO'— stated that the largest group of jihadists in Pakistan's north-west was from China.

Evidence of the TIP's intentions became increasingly clear in the build-up to the Beijing Olympics. In March 2008, crew on a Beijing-bound China Southern flight foiled an attempted mid-air suicide bombing by 19-year-old Guzalinur Turdi — trained, it emerged, in Pakistan. There were successes for the jihadists, too: in August 2008, terrorists killed 16 police officers in a raid in Kashgar, following that up by crashing a truck laden with explosives into a police station in Kuqa.
Last summer, authorities in Dubai convicted Pakistan-trained Xinjiang resident Mayma Ytiming Shalmo for planning to bomb a shopping mall selling Chinese products.
In a recent paper, scholar Mohan Guruswamy noted that Chinese strategists were increasingly worried "about the security of Pakistan's nuclear assets and fear the takeover of Pakistan by fundamentalist elements."
 

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for xinjiang people,they need a stable society to live.not terrorism.

in china,there r no terrorism.only Corruption and murder
 

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for xinjiang people,they need a stable society to live.not terrorism.

in china,there r no terrorism.only Corruption and murder
I like your optimism.
 
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No Ramadan for Uighur Muslims - Asia-Pacific - News - OnIslam.net

No Ramadan for Uighur Muslims


URUMQI – Amid fresh arrests, restrictions on fasting and prayers at mosques, China Uighur Muslims are suffering under the latest Chinese government crackdown on the ethnic minority in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.

"If any religious figure discusses Ramadan during the course of religious activities, or encourages people to take part, then they will lose their license to practice," Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Munich-based World Uighur Congress, told Eurasia Review on Friday, August 5.

"The more serious cases will result in arrests for incitement to engage in illegal religious activity," he said.

A day before the start of the holy fasting month for China's Muslims, at least 11 people were killed in a series of attacks in the north-western region of Xinjiang.

The Chinese authorities blamed the attacks to the ethnic minority, after which the Chinese police shot dead two Muslims last Sunday.

The attacks came less than two weeks after 18 people were killed in an attack in the restive Xinjiang region.

Following the unrest, more than 100 uighurs were detained by the Chinese authorities.

Most of those detained as suspects were committed Muslims who attended mosque and whose wives wore veils, residents say.

Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, was the scene of deadly violence in July 2009 when the mainly Muslim Uighur minority vented resentment over Chinese restrictions in the region.

In the following days, mobs of angry Han took to the streets looking for revenge in the worst ethnic violence that China had seen in decades.

The unrest left nearly 200 dead and 1,700 injured, according to government figures. But Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority, say the toll was much higher and mainly from their community.

China's authorities have convicted about 200 people, mostly Uighurs, over the riots and sentenced 26 of them to death.

No Fasting

As of Ramadan start, more severe restrictions were imposed on Chinese Muslims.

As for Muslim members of the government throughout Xinjiang, the government forced them to sign "letters of responsibility" promising to avoid fasting, evening prayers, or other religious activities.

"Fasting during Ramadan is a traditional ethnic custom, and they are allowed to do that," an employee who answered the phone at a local government neighborhood committee office in the regional capital Urumqi said confirming the restrictions.

"But they aren't allowed to hold any religious activities during Ramadan," she added.

"Party members are not allowed to fast for Ramadan, and neither are civil servants."

As for private companies, Uighur Muslim employees were offered lunches during fasting hours.

Anyone who refuses to eat could lose their annual bonus, or even their job, Raxit added.

Officials have also targeted Muslim schoolchildren, providing them with free lunches during the fasting period.

A Uighur resident of Beijing said students under 18 are forbidden from fasting during Ramadan.
Moreover, government campaigns forced restaurants in the Muslim majority region to stay open all day.

More restrictions were also imposed on people trying to attend prayers at mosques.

Everyone attending prayers has to register with their national identity card, he added.

"They have to register," he said.

"[After prayers] they aren't allowed to [congregate and] talk to each other."

In Ramadan, adult Muslims abstain from food, drink, smoking and sex between dawn and sunset.

The sick and those traveling are exempt from fasting especially if it poses health risks.

Muslims dedicate their time during the holy month to be closer to Allah through prayers, self-restraint and good deeds.
 

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This clampdown is good. It will incite the Uighers even more. Ramadan is very important for Muslims and not allowing them to fast is infringing their right to practice their religion. Good. Let the pot keep boiling. I hope some of this reaches Beijing and Shanghai which is traced to Pakistan. Inshallah!!
 

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u believe this woman saying? or why not came to china to see the truth....

Gratefully,she didnt say 100,000.but she really can say any number.
April I just want you to answer about existence of black jails in China.DO they really exist or its again a conspiracy of west to malign china ?
 
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The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : Beijing's increasing jihadist challenge

Beijing's increasing jihadist challenge


Fears are rising in China that the weekend violence in Xinjiang is but the first skirmish in a larger war ahead.

Thirteen months before a missile fired from a Predator drone ended his life, the head of the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) videotaped his final testament at his base in Pakistan's troubled North Waziristan.

"My Muslim brothers in East Turkestan," said Memtimin Memet in a January 2009 address released on jihadist websites linked to al-Qaeda. "We failed to follow the tenets of our faith, and instead supported our enemies — who enforced communism upon us, raped our women, violated the sanctity of our homes, invaded our land, and stole our wealth." "Preparing to fight these atheist communists," a narrator continued, "is an obligation upon every Muslim."

Last week, members of Memet's jihadist group, the East Turkestan Islamic Party, drove a hijacked truck into a crowd in downtown Kashgar, before jumping out and hacking at passers-by with knives. Later, another group set fire to a restaurant in the city, and again carried out knife attacks. Fourteen people were killed, and at least 41 injured. Kashgar's administration said that one of four captured attackers had trained at a TIP camp in Pakistan.

For China, the killings are troubling news. Ever since 9/11, the TIP, like its sister-organisations targeting central Asia, has struggled to survive in the face of relentless assault by the United States and its allies, But, as the U.S. prepares to pull out of Afghanistan, Pakistan has ever-diminishing incentives to continue with its fitful — and destabilising — war against jihadist bases in North Waziristan. Fears are rising in China, as in much of central Asia, that the weekend violence in Xinjiang is but the first skirmish in a larger war ahead.

Of strategic importance

Perched at Asia's crossroads — with western borders Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India — Xinjiang is of enormous strategic importance to China, and the region. Pipelines carrying Kazakh gas to feed China's rapidly-growing eastern seaboard traverse Xinjiang; the region itself is the site of some of the country's most ambitious developmental projects. For centuries a protectorate of distant emperors in Beijing, Xinjiang became part of modern China in 1949 after decades of violent rebellions and wars.

Xingjian's Uighur community is estimated to make up eight to 10 million of the region's 21 million population — a population that includes a welter of ethnic groups, including other Chinese Muslims like the Hui, as well as clusters of Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks and Tajiks.

Founded in 1993 — then known as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement — the TIP was the product of the same local and global forces which gave rise to jihadism elsewhere in Asia.

Like other regions in China, the modernising impact of the order saw enormous cultural and political dislocations after the revolution — among them, the removal of traditional feudal élites and the marginalisation of powerful Muslim clerics. The Soviet Union's intelligence services are also said to have backed East Turkestan separatists after the superpower's 1961 rupture with China.

But the birth of the modern Islamism in Xinjiang, as opposed to the traditionalist-leaning secessionists, was forged in another crucible: the great anti-Soviet Union jihad that tore Afghanistan apart from 1979. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Uighurs are reputed to have participated in the jihad, returning home empowered with the belief that a superpower could be successfully defeated through insurgent warfare. In 1993, Hasan Mahsum and Abdukadir Yapuquam, both residents of the town of Hotan, founded the ETIM to spearhead this cause. Both men are known to have met Osama bin Laden; their cadre fought alongside the Taliban.

From 1997

In February 1997, Xinjiang's jihadists took centre stage. Nine Uighurs were killed when police fired on violent mobs protesting the execution of several secessionist activists — a clash now known as the Ghulja incident. The TIP carried out its first major terrorist operation, bombing three buses in Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi — killing nine people, including three children, and injuring dozens.

Hasan Mahsum had, by this time, relocated the TIP's headquarters to Kabul, under the Taliban's patronage. In the wake of 9/11, though, much of the organisation's infrastructure was wiped out — and it retreated into North Waziristan. Even though Mahsum died in combat with Pakistani troops in 2003, that country's intelligence services have estimated that upwards of a 1,000 operatives remained in camps under the patronage of jihadist warlords like Muhammad Illyas Kashmiri.

From January 2007, evidence began to emerge of the lethality of the Pakistan-based jihadists' ambitions. That month, a raid on a training camp inside Xinjiang claimed the life of 18 insurgents. Investigators found an hour-long videotape, which included a call by the Syrian al-Qaeda ideologue Mustafa Setmariam Nasar mentioning China as a target for the global jihadist movement. The video also contained footage of Uighur jihadists training with assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, and shoulder-fired missiles.

Then, in 2008, startling evidence emerged during the trial of Malika el-Aroud — the wife of the assassin of the anti-Taliban Afghan warlord Ahmad Shah Massoud — and her new husband, Moez Garsallaoui. In 2008, in proceedings in a Belgian court, a witness — identified, for legal reasons, only by the initials 'WO'— stated that the largest group of jihadists in Pakistan's north-west was from China.

Beijing Olympics

Evidence of the TIP's intentions became increasingly clear in the build-up to the Beijing Olympics. In March 2008, crew on a Beijing-bound China Southern flight foiled an attempted mid-air suicide bombing by 19-year-old Guzalinur Turdi — trained, it emerged, in Pakistan. There were successes for the jihadists, too: in August 2008, terrorists killed 16 police officers in a raid in Kashgar, following that up by crashing a truck laden with explosives into a police station in Kuqa.

Killings like these were likely intended to precipitate a civilisational rupture between Muslims and non-Muslims in a country that has one of the largest Muslim populations, and vibrant Islamic traditions. In a six-minute video released in 2008, the TIP commander Emeti Yakuf warned Muslims not to bring their children to the Olympics, saying "do not stay on the same bus, on the same train, on the same plane, in the same buildings, or any place the Chinese are."

Large-scale communal riots broke out in Xinjiang, the worst ethnic-sectarian violence China had seen in decades — a sign. More than 192 people were killed, about two thirds of them from the country's ethnic-Han majority; thousands more were injured. The violence had begun after two members from Xingjian's Uighur Muslim community were killed in a factory brawl in south-eastern China's Guangdong province — sparking off violent protests in their home province.

Libyan-born Muhammad Hasan Abu Bakr, al-Qaeda's top ideologue issued a videotaped declaration in response to these events. "This massacre," he said, "is not being carried out by criminal Crusaders or evil Jews." But it was, nonetheless, "a duty for Muslims today to stand by their wounded and oppressed brothers in East Turkestan and support them with all they can."

Three reasons

For three reasons, China's intelligence and security services are taking these threats seriously. First, as an increasingly global actor, China has become evermore vulnerable to transnational terrorism. Last summer, authorities in Dubai convicted Pakistan-trained Xinjiang resident Mayma Ytiming Shalmo for planning to bomb a shopping mall selling Chinese products.

Chinese nationals working overseas have increasingly been attacked: in 2007, three workers were assassinated in Peshawar, while al-Qaeda's regional franchise, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, killed a Chinese engineer in a 2009 ambush. There have been attacks too, on Chinese workers in Pakistan's Baluchistan province and Afghanistan's Faryab region.

Second, ETIM and its affiliates are a regional concern — threatening the arc of States to China's west which are crucial to its energy security. The TIP is known to have worked closely with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which has waged brutal campaigns in the country of its birth, as well as Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Back in 2002, Uzbek President Islam Karimov bluntly said the "Pakistani authorities have done nothing to detain bandits from Uzbekistan who were trained in Afghanistan and took part in the al-Qaeda."

Third, there is the obvious: unlike India, China has succeeded in averting large-scale communal strife, using its rapid economic growth to defuse the ethnic-religious tensions which have, inevitably, arisen in times of momentous change. Events like the 2009 riots, though, drove home the point that terrorism posed a real threat to internal peace within China.

Role of Pakistan

Pakistan holds the key: but a decade's worth of experience has made it clear to the world just how difficult it is to compel it to act. Now, China faces the strategic challenge of balancing its durable strategic relationship with Pakistan against the costs of its ally's profound unwillingness to confront Islamist violence.

In a recent paper, scholar Mohan Guruswamy noted that Chinese strategists were increasingly worried "about the security of Pakistan's nuclear assets and fear the takeover of Pakistan by fundamentalist elements."

In 2009, Pakistani diplomat Masood Khan had gushing words of praise of his country's relationship with Beijing: it was, he said, "higher than the mountains, deeper than the oceans, sweeter than honey, stronger than steel, all-weather and time-tested."

How much longer that holds true will depend on how well the world's two pre-eminent powers are able to work together to find solutions to what is, without dispute, emerging as the world's principal shared security challenge.
 

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No Ramadan for Uighur Muslims - Asia-Pacific - News - OnIslam.net

No Ramadan for Uighur Muslims


URUMQI – Amid fresh arrests, restrictions on fasting and prayers at mosques, China Uighur Muslims are suffering under the latest Chinese government crackdown on the ethnic minority in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.

"If any religious figure discusses Ramadan during the course of religious activities, or encourages people to take part, then they will lose their license to practice," Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Munich-based World Uighur Congress, told Eurasia Review on Friday, August 5.

"The more serious cases will result in arrests for incitement to engage in illegal religious activity," he said.

A day before the start of the holy fasting month for China's Muslims, at least 11 people were killed in a series of attacks in the north-western region of Xinjiang.

The Chinese authorities blamed the attacks to the ethnic minority, after which the Chinese police shot dead two Muslims last Sunday.

The attacks came less than two weeks after 18 people were killed in an attack in the restive Xinjiang region.

Following the unrest, more than 100 uighurs were detained by the Chinese authorities.

Most of those detained as suspects were committed Muslims who attended mosque and whose wives wore veils, residents say.

Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, was the scene of deadly violence in July 2009 when the mainly Muslim Uighur minority vented resentment over Chinese restrictions in the region.

In the following days, mobs of angry Han took to the streets looking for revenge in the worst ethnic violence that China had seen in decades.

The unrest left nearly 200 dead and 1,700 injured, according to government figures. But Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority, say the toll was much higher and mainly from their community.

China's authorities have convicted about 200 people, mostly Uighurs, over the riots and sentenced 26 of them to death.

No Fasting

As of Ramadan start, more severe restrictions were imposed on Chinese Muslims.

As for Muslim members of the government throughout Xinjiang, the government forced them to sign "letters of responsibility" promising to avoid fasting, evening prayers, or other religious activities.

"Fasting during Ramadan is a traditional ethnic custom, and they are allowed to do that," an employee who answered the phone at a local government neighborhood committee office in the regional capital Urumqi said confirming the restrictions.

"But they aren't allowed to hold any religious activities during Ramadan," she added.

"Party members are not allowed to fast for Ramadan, and neither are civil servants."

As for private companies, Uighur Muslim employees were offered lunches during fasting hours.

Anyone who refuses to eat could lose their annual bonus, or even their job, Raxit added.

Officials have also targeted Muslim schoolchildren, providing them with free lunches during the fasting period.

A Uighur resident of Beijing said students under 18 are forbidden from fasting during Ramadan.
Moreover, government campaigns forced restaurants in the Muslim majority region to stay open all day.

More restrictions were also imposed on people trying to attend prayers at mosques.

Everyone attending prayers has to register with their national identity card, he added.

"They have to register," he said.

"[After prayers] they aren't allowed to [congregate and] talk to each other."

In Ramadan, adult Muslims abstain from food, drink, smoking and sex between dawn and sunset.

The sick and those traveling are exempt from fasting especially if it poses health risks.

Muslims dedicate their time during the holy month to be closer to Allah through prayers, self-restraint and good deeds.
I wonder how holier than thou pakiis feel about this ? bloody scum the both of them.
 

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So here it is Xinjiang is also an occupied territory by hans.
so why not straightly tell every province is an occupied territory? Lots of "Hans" flooded to my province only back in Tang Dynasty. And Han has been an dynamic concept absorbing various ethnic elements in the long history of evolvment. Answer me Do u regard Aurangzeb or Akbar or Parsi as Indians?

"Fasting during Ramadan is a traditional ethnic custom, and they are allowed to do that," an employee who answered the phone at a local government neighborhood committee office in the regional capital Urumqi said confirming the restrictions.

"But they aren't allowed to hold any religious activities during Ramadan," she added.

"Party members are not allowed to fast for Ramadan, and neither are civil servants."
I beg to differ - Ramadan in my opinion is a RELIGIOUS customs not an ethnic one. An Uigur for example is not necessarily Muslim. If he chooses to follow Atheism for example then why shall he/she practise fasting/Ramadan? In Xinjiang it's justifiable to tighten their control lest terrorism advance their cause under the flag of religion.


Below is a video clip for Muslim Chinese celebrating Ramadan
Watch: Muslims celebrate Ramadan in Beijing, China - Shanghaiist
Do u notice the architectural style of the Mosque? It looks extremely ' Chinese". That's how Muslims have chosen to align / harmonize with Chinese cultural background. That's why those 'mild' Muslims have no problems with other religions.

There's so much released from rumor mills. Or anyway u don't believe in Chinese propaganda. Then seeing is believing. Come see for yourself in China
 
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Chinese rebels threaten Sino-Pak ties


LAHORE: The much trumpeted all-weather Pakistan-China friendship received a major setback following Beijing's August 1 claim that the Muslim militants from Uighur who were involved in two bomb blasts on July 30 and July 31 in the Kashgar city of Xinjiang province (which killed 18 people) had in fact been trained in explosives in the tribal areas of Pakistan on the Pak-Afghan border belt.
Chinese officials have publicly claimed for the first time in recent years that the attackers were trained in camps being run by the al-Qaeda-linked East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) in Pakistan, throwing serious question marks over Islamabad's friendship with Beijing. Though the ETIM network on the Pak-Afghan border has been significantly weakened in recent years in the wake of the deaths of many of its top leaders in American drone attacks, hard-core Uighur militants are still shuttling between China and Pakistan since Xinjiang province shares a border with Pakistan. The Chinese authorities claimed on August 1 that the ringleader of the terror group which carried out the July 2011 attacks in Kashgar had learned making explosives and firearms in ETIM terrorist training camps in the tribal areas of Pakistan on the Pak-Afghan border.

The ETIM, which is run by natives of the Xinjiang province, is fighting against the settlement of Chinese Hans from mainland and describes its struggle as a freedom movement. The tendency of the indigenous people fighting against settlers is not unusual in Xinjiang where more than 200 civilians lost their lives in deadly ethnic violence between the Han and Uighur communities in 2009. Although ethnic strife is not new in Xinjiang, it is China's accusations directed towards Pakistan that ought to merit concern. The Chinese claim about the involvement of a terrorist group in the recent attacks with training camps in Pakistan was made on the basis of confession by a captured Uighur militant. The Pakistan government, for its part, was quick to extend all possible cooperation to China against the ETIM which is also described as the Turkisatni Islamic Party (TIP).

"Terrorists, extremists and separatists in Xinjiang constitute an evil force," said an August 1 statement issued by Pakistan's Foreign Ministry. The statement came after Chinese President Hu Jintao had rung up President Asif Ali Zardari to express concern over the growing terror activities of the ETIM in the Xinjiang province, a month before the holding of international expo in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, from September 1 to 5, 2011. Subsequently, Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha, Director-General of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), rushed to Beijing to address the Chinese concerns.

According to well informed intelligence circles in Rawalpindi, the Pakistani military authorities are under mounting pressure from Beijing to allow the setting up of military bases in the tribal areas of Pakistan to counter the Chinese rebels operating from its soil. In fact, the growing strength of the Pakistan-based Chinese separatist movement is a matter of serious concern for Beijing which had even asked Islamabad to allow its military presence either in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) or Fata, just like the Americans, so that Beijing could effectively counter the Chinese separatists there. Yet diplomatic circles added that the Chinese desire to have military presence in the tribal areas of Pakistan should not be painted as an attempt to set up permanent military bases there. "China does not have any military bases outside its land unlike the United States and the prime concern of Beijing is the spread of violence from the Pakistani tribal belt to the trouble-stricken Chinese region of Xinjiang, which is the main Muslim majority province."

The fact that the ETIM militants had extended their network of terrorist activities to Pakistan became abundantly clear in 2009 when they threatened the Chinese Embassy in Islamabad through a letter, expressing their intentions to kidnap Chinese diplomats and consular officers to highlight their cause. The Chinese mission subsequently informed the Pakistani authorities that some members of the ETIM had already reached Islamabad and are planning to kidnap their staffers from the federal capital. The Pakistani law enforcement agencies consequently arrested 10 ETIM militants and extradited them to China despite apprehensions expressed by the Amnesty International (AI) that they could be at risk of serious human rights violations in there, including unfair trial, torture and execution.

The extradition of the ETIM militants came about as a result of three agreements made between Pakistan and China to curb militancy and extremism. In an ensuing video posted on a militant website on August 1, 2009, Abdul Haq al-Turkistani, the leader of the ETIM, urged Muslims to attack Chinese interests to punish Beijing for what he described as massacres against Uighur Muslims. Haq said: "The Chinese must be targeted both at home and abroad. Their embassies, consulates, centres and gathering places should be targeted. Their men should be killed and captured to seek the release of our brothers who are jailed in Eastern Turkistan."

Abdul Haq used to run a training camp for his recruits in Tora Bora in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province prior to the US invasion in October 2001. However, he had relocated his camps to Pakistan's lawless Waziristan region. He had been operating from the South Waziristan tribal agency, also accused China of committing "barbaric massacres" against Muslims in East Turkistan. He spoke with an assault rifle to his right and what appeared to be a pistol pouch strapped to his shoulder. In June 2009, Haq was reported to have attended a high-level meeting in South Waziristan with Baitullah Mahsud, the then chief of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Sirajuddin Haqqani of the Haqqani militant network, and Abu Yahya al-Libbi of al-Qaeda to discuss about Pakistani military operations against the TTP in the area. Baitullah subsequently died following a missile attack by a US drone on the house of his father-in-law which he was visiting in August, 2009.

Almost six months later, Abdul Haq was also killed in yet another US drone strike on February 15, 2010 in Miramshah, North Waziristan while he was travelling in a vehicle. The Chinese separatist commander was closely linked to al-Qaeda and was the second consecutive chief of Turkisatni Islamic Party to be killed in the Pakistani tribal areas. Abdul Haq, also known as Maimaitiming Maimaiti, became the TIP chief after the killing of Hassan Mahsum, the group's previous head, by the Pakistani security forces in South Waziristan on October 2, 2004. His importance can be gauged from the fact that the US Treasury Department had designated him a global terrorist in April 2009, stating that he has already been appointed a member of al-Qaeda's Majlis-e-Shura or executive council, way back in 2005. Soon afterwards, the United Nations Security Council had too designated him a terrorist leader.

In fact, the Turkistani Islamic Party or the East Turkistan Islamic Movement pleads the creation of an independent Islamic state of East Turkistan in the Muslim-dominated Xinjiang province of China. East Turkistan had maintained a measure of independence until the early 1950s, when Mao's victorious rebel armies turned to the peripheries and began securing Chinese borders, capturing Manchuria, Mongolia, Tibet and East Turkistan. The native Uighur resisted Chinese occupation until 1960s, but failed to win support from neighbouring Muslim states because of their fractured tribal nature. Since the mid-1980s, however, an active pan-Islamic movement has been trying to cement the opposing groups together against the alleged Chinese occupation of their homeland, pressing for an independent East Turkistan state. Yet Beijing, which views Xingjian as an invaluable asset due to its crucial strategic location near Central Asia and its large oil and gas reserves, has been using all possible means to quell the separatist movement. On the other hand, however, Beijing blames the Uighur separatists for carrying out bombings and shootouts in the Xinjiang province, causing an atmosphere of insecurity and fear in China.
 

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The ISI is in hot seat again this time from its declared old/new friend. I will not be surprised if one day both the US and China agree to declare the ISI as a terrorist group...
 

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The ISI is in hot seat again this time from its declared old/new friend. I will not be surprised if one day both the US and China agree to declare the ISI as a terrorist group... Pakistan and its ISI is fast appearing to be a rare common interest between the US and China in that part of the World. India should pitch in also.
 

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who controls what in pakistan is a funny joke!

few years down the line pakistan would like this>

1. chinese province or chinese quarter
2. american province or american quarter
3. KSA province or KSA quarter
4. Pathanland

nobody knows who is doing what in pakistan....state or non state actors.
 

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Asia Times Online :: Uyghur militants threaten Sino-Pak ties

The Pakistan-based Chinese separatist movement is evidently such a matter of serious concern for Beijing that it has even asked Islamabad to allow it a military presence either in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa province or in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan. Similar to the American presence in the country, this would enable Beijing to effectively counter Chinese separatists it believes are operating in the area.

Diplomatic circles added that the Chinese desire to have a military presence in the tribal areas should not be painted as an attempt to set up permanent military bases there. "China does not have any military bases outside its land unlike the United States and the prime concern of Beijing is the spread of violence from the Pakistani tribal belt to the trouble-stricken Chinese region of Xinjiang, which is the main Muslim majority province," one envoy said.
Does China seriously want to put military personnel in NWFP? Hah, they'll become sitting ducks for the locals!
How will it look if Pak gives in to China on this, while refusing US and India?
 

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Pakistan turning blind eye to human rights abuses in Xinjiang

While the United Nations has said that at least one million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims have been detained in China, experts believe that neighbouring Pakistan has turned a blind eye to the human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

China's close ally, Pakistan, is a Muslim country and one of the most powerful members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

However, it has covered up the massive human rights abuses against followers of Islam in Xinjiang.

oh well!!!!
 

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