Pakistan Recognizes China's Position On Uighur Muslims: Imran Khan

Pakistan Recognizes China's Position On Uighur Muslims: Imran Khan

 

Pakistan Recognizes China's Position On Uighur Muslims: Imran Khan

Islamabad- Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that Pakistan agrees with China's position on Uighur Muslims in China's northwestern province of Xinjiang.

Talking to Chinese media in Islamabad on Thursday on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, Prime Minister Imran Khan said that China has stood by Pakistan in every difficult time.

He said China's stance on Uighur Muslims was very different from US and Western media reports on Uighur Muslims. Imran Khan clarified that due to our close ties, relations and mutual trust with China, we recognize China's position on the Chinese government's program on Xinjiang.

The United States and Western nations have accused China of holding Uighur Muslims in detention centers and of widespread human rights abuses and genocide. However, China has maintained that it has established a regional surveillance system to quell separatism in the province. However, it continues to grow economically and socially here.

Human rights organizations and foreign media often ask Pakistan why it does not cover the issue of Chinese Uighur Muslims in the same way that Pakistan mentions the issues of Kashmir and Palestine.

Prime Minister Imran Khan said that foreign media is more concerned about Uighur Muslims and Hong Kong.

In response to a question, Prime Minister Imran Khan said that the Chinese Communist Party had introduced a way of life that lifted 700 million people out of poverty and that this system had proved to be better than Western democracy.

Talking to Chinese correspondents, Prime Minister Imran Khan also discussed Pakistan-China relations, the situation in the region, Afghanistan, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPC).