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Afghanistan

China Turns to Taliban to Control ETIM: Exclusive on Bid to Woo Guv of Afghanistan’s Badakshan

2023-08-22

[News18] Wary of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM)

...also known as Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), the Uighur jihadi group has branches in Al Qaeda’s Al Nusra organization in Syria and in the Al Qaeda organization in Afghanistan ...

and continuing with its interest in Afghanistan, China is now wooing the governor of Badakshan, according to a top diplomatic source.

"The Chinese are keen to control the ETIM. They plan to offer a lucrative deal to the governor. As the governor is in ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
, his deputy is expected to attend the meeting," he added.

The ETIM is a separatist Death Eater outfit in Xinjiang which allegedly has links with radical outfits such as al Qaeda and Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS or ISIS).

News18 had previously reported on China’s demand that Taliban
Taliban

...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
crack down on the ETIM. Kabul has, however, so far rebuffed the demand, saying the activists have been "our guests for a very long period of time".

CCTVs, BELT & ROAD INTITIATIVE
Recently, there were reports that Chinese telecom giant Huawei has got sanctions from the top levels of the Haqqani Network in Afghanistan to install CCTV cameras across provinces, which had led to concerns that Beijing is advancing towards profiling Afghans to increase its influence in the country.

According to sources, China managed the deal with the top leadership of the Haqqani Network, a faction of the ruling Taliban. The cameras are going to be installed ostensibly to fight the ISIS, sources added.

Security experts say having Chinese-installed CCTVs in Afghanistan will help Beijing profile the Afghan people as well as protect its own nationals working in the war-torn country on projects.

China has made halting efforts to extend its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to Afghanistan that could see construction of railways and bridges, but is chiefly concerned with the country harboring separatists opposed to Chinese control in its northwestern region of Xinjiang.

CHINA-PAKISTAIN ECONOMIC CORRIDOR
Recently, China, Afghanistan and Pakistain agreed to forge closer economic ties by extending the Beijing-backed China-Pakistain Economic Corridor (CPEC) to Afghanistan.

The $60-billion CPEC aims to connect Pakistain’s Gwadar port in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
with China’s Xinjiang province.

India has objected to the CPEC as it traverses through Pakistain-Indian Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
e (PoK).

The CPEC is officially regarded as the flagship project of China’s multi-billion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — the pet project of President Xi Jinping.

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