Uighurs: Pakistan supporting Chinese repression of Uighurs in Xinjiang: Report – Times of India

Islamabad: Pakistan It has never shied away from condemning other countries for atrocities against Muslim communities, although the country itself has stood firm on the issue of Uighur human rights violations. xinjiang,
China’s growing presence in Pakistan due to its economic growth and particularly its investments in the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has given Beijing an opportunity to address “international repression” in the country, including human rights violations and the persecution of the Uighur minority in Xinjiang. Unprecedented opportunity. Canada-based think tank International Forum for Rights and Security (IFFRAS) reported.
The Chinese authorities included Pakistan in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XAR) List of 26 blacklisted countries.
Blacklisting means that anyone having contacts or visits or family ties or any communication in these blacklisted countries should not be trusted and will remain under the radar of XAR authorities, the think tank reported.
In particular, Pakistani citizens over the years and Uighurs Fake marriages have taken place because cross-border commerce between the two countries across the Karakoram Highway is involved.
In an incident in Pakistan, Sikandar Hayato and slaves Durrani Uyghurs were separated from their wives. The wives were detained by the Chinese authorities in XAR while they were on their way there.
Subsequently, Hayat’s son who had gone to XAR to support his mother, could not meet his father for two years.
In addition, Durrani’s wife is in custody since 2017.
In a particularly heinous episode that exposed Islamabad’s insensitivity and complicity in China’s “oppression”, Pakistani security forces arrested 14 Uyghur Islamic students suspected of being terrorists by China.
After being handed over to China, the government brutally killed all the students at the border.
The international community has been quite vocal about the treatment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang and, most recently, the French parliament on Thursday condemned China’s “genocide” of its Uyghur Muslim people, in a resolution that only two weeks before the winter in Paris. and could spoil relations between Beijing. Olympics.
The resolution also urged the French government to protect the ethnic minority in the Xinjiang region and to take “necessary measures in its foreign policy within the international community and towards the People’s Republic of China”.
As of 2014, around 60 Uighurs were deported or imprisoned by Pakistani security forces. After the unrest in Urumqi, large numbers of Uighurs attempted to exit China from Turkey via Pakistan.
Uighurs were captured and deported by Pakistani authorities on their way to Turkey. In one instance, five innocent Uighurs were deported from Balochistan to China in 2010, despite the fact that they had no links to any terrorist group.

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