Pakistan, which is heavily invested in the CPEC, is strategically silent on Uyghur Muslims. This complicity risks undermining the OIC’s credibility as a champion of Muslim rights.
China has used its economic and political clout over the Islamic world to help Beijing consolidate its voice on the Uyghur issue on global fora, such as the United Nations.
Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen spoke to Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post as Islamist outfit makes vast territorial gains in Afghanistan ahead of US pullout.
Megha Rajagopalan from BuzzFeed News and Tampa Bay Times' Neil Bedi are the two Indian-origin journalists who won the US' top journalism award on Friday.
Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy report accuses China of carrying out illegal detentions, sexual assault & forced sterilisation of Uyghurs, says it is in breach of 1948 UN Genocide Convention.
Muslims would do better to think about whether the public performance of religion strengthens or weakens secularism—the idea in which they have the highest stake.
ISKP, a sub-continental branch of the Islamic State, is said to have vowed to extend operations in Kashmir, on encouragement from Pakistan’s security establishment.
Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.
Somehow Gaza and the Palestinians have now totally eclipsed Xinjiang and the Uyghurs.