Pakistan demands Kashmir action while ignoring China's Uighurs

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Even as Pakistan this week drew international attention to the plight of Muslims in Indian Kashmir, Islamabad stayed conspicuously silent about ...

"We will never accept, and neither will the Kashmiris, the illegal Indian actions and oppression of the Kashmiri people," Khan said Wednesday as Pakistan marked the one-year anniversary of India stripping the Muslim-majority region of its semi-autonomous status.

Rights groups estimate more than one million Uighurs and other Turkic-speaking minorities have been rounded up into a network of internment camps, which China has branded"re-education centres". Michael Kugelman, deputy director of the Asia Program at the US-based Wilson Center, said such criticism was"justifiable".

China has also offered steadfast diplomatic support to Pakistan during its frequent bouts of unrest with India.

 

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