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Formerly published on Aberdeen American News, Helping Uigurs, by Kashi N Pandita

re: The right way to help the Uigurs, By Ellen Bork, July 10, 2009:

Dear Editor:

Juxtaposing Xingjian situation with Tibet or invoking US policy towards Uighurs along the line for Taiwan and Hong Kong is unreasonable. (The Right Way to Help ,,.. 10 July) Human, civil and political rights cannot become the shield behind which elements determined to subvert country’s sovereignty would take shelter. Demand for autonomous state for the Uighurs of Xingjian has been there for many years. But all sovereign states are bound by domestic and international law to protect life, property and culture of its citizens. Alleged links of Uighur demonstrators with deadly religious extremist organizations and actors in Pakistan-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan region is a very serious matter for the Peoples Republic of China.  Remember that China is a partner of world community in its war on terror. Beijing’s timely action of sealing all mosques in Urumchi does not seem to be motivated by denying religious freedom to any religious or ethnic group. It is to foil any attempt of proliferating religion-based terror in the region in tandem with sympathizers around. From that aspect, China has shown that curbing the menace of terror before it spreads out its venomous fangs has to be the operative part of war on terror.

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Formerly published on Aberdeen American News, by Kashi N Pandit:

re: Xingjian ethnic clashes, July 08, 2009:

Dear Editor:

Fifty million Sunni-Muslim Uighurs of Eastern Turkistan, belong to Turkic-Mongoloid race. Under Maoist authoritarianism, demographic change was effected by settling a large number of Han Chinese in the region, which caused friction between two major ethnic groups. (Scores Killed in Ethnic Riots in China?, July 7.  Angered by this and Beijing’s old discriminatory policy, the Uighurs responded vigorously to Pakistani radical Islamic organizations that started exploiting their religious sentiments soon after the Saudi-sponsored Sunni Wahhabism began wresting the initiative of Islamic revivalism from the hands of Iranian clerics in mid 1980s. Chinese authorities arrested some rabid Pakistani Islamist activists in Xingjian in post 9/11 period, charged them with inciting secession, executed two and deported the rest. Ever since, Uighurs of Xingjian are in the eye of Pakistan-based radical Islamists of Wahhabi orientation. They are now fully indoctrinated and what has happened is only the tip of the iceberg. The future will unfold more.

Pak-Afghan hostility impeding US troops operations in the region: WP

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Published on Breaking News 24/7, by Ani, July 5, 2009.

WASHINGTON – The United States is hoping to get support from the Pakistan Army in its offensive in Afghanistan, but the hostility between Pakistan and Afghanistan is not allowing the US-led allied forces to carry out an all out offensive in the region and is impeding their success, The Washington Post reports.

The U.S. troops are struggling to overcome decades of enmity between Afghanistan and Pakistan in the rough terrains of the border area, the report said …

… U.S. officials said that they must have the support of ‘deeply suspicious’ Pakistani forces to stop the flow of Taliban fighters across the 90-mile stretch of border.

They said that a border coordination center on the Afghan side where commanders from all three countries could plan operations should be operationalised in order to counter and address the real threat.

“Our goal is to get everyone focused on the common enemy,” Dempsey said. (ANI). (full text).

Iranian Theocracy

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Linked with No velvet revolution for Iran.

Dear Editor:

A change from theocratic to secular-democratic regime in Iran can be brought about only by the masses of Iranian people and not by a decree from any disinterested religious leader in or outside Iran (No velvet revolution, 29 June).

Iranians brought in theocracy through street power in 1979. The same formula still holds good for its ouster.

Kashi N. Pandit