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| Will New Delhi imitate China? | | Menace of terrorism | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 27: China, like India, has been facing problem from radical elements in the Xinjiang Province since decades and has taken umpteen steps to tackle the menace to eliminate the evil. Reports emanating from London said that the "Chinese security agencies have separated women in the country's restive Muslim-majority province of Xinjiang from their Pakistani husbands and sent them to 're-education camps".
Reports said that "a large number of women belonging to China's Uighur Muslim minority are married to Pakistani men, who come to the province of Xinjiang for trade" and that "after work on multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor started, the number of Pakistani men visiting the region increased significantly".
Even as it continues to develop the corridor and invest in its "deeper than the deepest ocean, sweeter than honey" relations with Pakistan, China remains wary of the unrest in its Muslim population. "A number of separatists and militants from Xinjiang have found refuge in restive parts of Pakistan in the past. Although Islamabad has made efforts to drive out Uighur militant outfits under pressure from Beijing, China has traced back terror attacks in the region to Pakistan-based camps of outfits such as al-Qaeda-linked East Turkestan Islamic Movement," the reports have further said.
Experts say, "Beijing could have taken this step to make sure that dissidents in the Xinjiang, which borders Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, are unable to coordinate with militant outfits based in restive parts of Pakistan" and that "at least 120,000 Uighurs have been placed in 're-education' camps in the province".
Not just this, "at least 50 women married to men from Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan have also been separated from their husbands and sent to re-education camps on charges of extremism," the reports further said, adding that many "lawmakers in Gilgit-Baltistan have demanded that authorities in Xinjiang province immediately release the women".
Contrast the Chinese policy with that of Indian policy and one will find a glaring difference. The policy-planners on the South and north Blocks at the behest of the so-called mainstream parties in Kashmir, including the PDP and the NC, have adopted a very soft approach towards terrorists of Kashmir origin based in Pakistan and PoJK and their wives of Pakistan and PoJK origin. In fact, there is a policy in place which encourages them to return to Jammu & Kashmir and enjoy benefits of the so-called relief and rehabilitation policy. Will New Delhi learn lessons from Beijing and take steps to tackle the menace of terrorism in Kashmir and parts of Jammu province? |
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