Tuesday, August 2, 2011

China vows to crush ETIM terrorists trained in Pak

Meanwhile, there was still no word here about the reported visit of ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha to Beijing for talks with Chinese officials.The Pakistan government yesterday said it will continue to extend full cooperation and support to China against the ETIM.Memtieli Tiliwaldi, 29 and Turson Hasan, 34, who were wanted in connection with the latest violence in Xinjiang province, were killed yesterday in the corn fields in the suburb of Kashgar, local officials said.The attacks appeared to have abated since yesterday as the Chinese forces beefed up security all over the volatile province which has been witnessing ethnic tensions.In a related development, the official Chinese media today made a prominent mention of the Kashghar government�s allegations that the militants were trained in terrorist camps in Pakistan."A preliminary probe found that the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) was behind the explosion at the weekend," the China Daily said in its editorial, 'Fight against terrorism'."The leaders of the group learned terrorist techniques in ETIM camps in Pakistan before they penetrated into Xinjiang," it said, calling for stepping up the fight against terrorism in the troubled province.Another English daily, the 'Global Times' carried the official statement that "those captured said the group's leaders had learned how to make explosives and firearms in camps run by the terrorist group ETIM in Pakistan before entering Xinjiang to organize terrorist activities.Mainstream Chinese language media also pointed fingers at terrorist training camps in Pakistan.It is perhaps rare for Pakistan to get bad publicity in the Chinese media, considering the close and "all weather relations" between the two countries. It is also the first time that China has directly mentioned Pakistan�s terror camps while referring to the violence in Xinjing.

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