Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday stated Pakistan accepts the “Chinese version” of the remedy of Uighurs, a minority Muslim ethnic group, in China’s restive Xinjiang province due to Islamabad’s “extreme proximity and relationship” with Beijing.
The US and the EU, in addition to many different nations, have accused China of committing genocide towards the Uighurs in resource-rich Xinjiang, and known as for a world probe by human rights teams.
Speaking to Chinese journalists as Beijing marked the centenary of the ruling Communist Party, Khan stated the Chinese model on the Uighur subject was utterly totally different from what was being reported in Western media.
“Because of our extreme proximity and relationship with China, we actually accept the Chinese version,” he was quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper.
According to researchers, an estimated 1 million individuals or extra — most of them Uighurs –have been confined in re-education camps in China’s western Xinjiang area lately. Chinese authorities have been accused of imposing pressured labour, systematic pressured contraception, torture and separating youngsters from incarcerated mother and father.
China has been vehemently refuting allegations of interning thousands and thousands of Uigurs in mass detention camps, which have been formally termed as schooling camps, in a bid to wean them away from non secular extremism.
“It is hypocritical. There are much worse human rights violations taking place in other parts of the world… But Western media hardly comment on this,” the prime minister stated, lashing out at Western media for highlighting the Uighurs” scenario and Hong Kong.
China accuses East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), which is entrenched in Uighur Muslim-majority province of Xinjiang, of being liable for quite a few violent assaults within the province and out of doors, together with one on the Forbidden City in Beijing in 2013, killing a number of individuals.
Beijing has sharply criticised the US for delisting the Xinjiang’s separatist militant outfit from its record of terrorist organisations final 12 months, saying it mirrored Washington’s “double standards” on preventing world terrorism.
Khan additionally praised the Communist Party of China (CPC), calling it an “alternative” to Western democracy.
“Until now, we had been told that the best way for societies to improve was through Western democracy…The CPC has introduced an alternative model and they have beaten all Western democracies in the way they have highlighted merit in society,” he stated.
Underlining Pakistan’s robust ties with China, Khan stated each time Pakistan has been in bother, politically or internationally, China has at all times stood with it.
He acknowledged that Pakistan’s relationship with China had nothing to do with India. “Our relationship is a bilateral relationship. It is extremely strong,” Khan stated.
Commenting on the financial relationship between Pakistan and China, the prime minister stated he sees the ties transferring ahead. “The next phase of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is very exciting for Pakistan. We plan to attract Chinese investment for special economic zones as our labour is cheaper,” he stated.