After Afghanistan and India will China be also pointing fingers at Pakistan? Today there were series of bombings in Xinjiang and 11 people were killed. Chinese says the people were trained in Pakistan…
Residents in the street discussed the attack among themselves, but were reticent to talk to a reporter.
“This doesn’t usually happen. It’s happening now because of the Olympics, but I don’t know who is doing it,” said one man, a construction worker, who wouldn’t give his name for fear of official retaliation.
On Thursday, a video purportedly made by the Turkestan Islamic Party was released in which the militant group threatened to attack buses, trains and planes during the two-week Olympic competition.
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The group wants independence for Xinjiang and is believed to be based in Pakistan, where security experts say core members received training from al-Qaida. **
New violence in China’s restive west kills 11 - Yahoo! News
Xinjiang is home to the Uighurs, an 8 million-strong Muslim minority with a long history of tense relations with the Chinese
Re: Pakistani connection to bombings in China?
If that is the case may be now finally we can expect the Pakistan government to actually act against terrorists.
Afghan President Karzai says NATO and US should take its fight into Pakistan. He wants NATO and US to attack Pakistan. What if China also wants to take action against Pakistan because of the Jihadis being trained in Pakistan?
A China Threat From Pakistan? - Yahoo! News
A China Threat from Pakistan
A second deadly attack by suspected Muslim separatists in China’s far west has sparked fears that what had until very recently been a largely dormant militant insurgency, has undergone a significant revival. The bombing at a police station in the city of Kuqa in the Muslim majority Xinjiang region also heightened concern among security analysts that the recent slew of attacks has been carried out by fighters trained and equipped by jihadist groups in neighboring Pakistan.
The new attacks signal a major change in the nature of Uighur resistance to Chinese rule, says Rohan Gunaratna of the Singapore-based International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research. “Although the Chinese have been capable of disrupting groups operating inside the country, these new attackers are trained and equipped outside, and come into China to carry out operations. This is a new capability that Chinese security forces have to deal with and they are finding it difficult.” Gunaratna and others estimate that around 40 fighters from Xinjiang have been training in camps in the virtually lawless tribal areas of Pakistan, working with and under the sponsorship of groups that have direct links to both al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
Re: Pakistani connection to bombings in China?
It simply points to what should be very obvious. Either those tribal areas are Pakistan or they are not. If Pakistan says it is part of Pakistan, the government of Pakistan must take responsibility for the jihadi factories from there and take immediate decisive and effective action. Or outside forces will have to do their job.
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Which outside forces?