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Pakistan facing humiliation at hands of China, says US expert
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Feb 23 (ANI): Pakistan has been facing humiliation at the hands of China, be it then the issue of Uighur Muslims persecution in Xinjiang or now the evacuation of its own citizens form coronavirus-hit Hubei province, a US-based security expert has said.
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Coronavirus may have started in Xinjiang's prison camps
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Hong Kong, Feb 22 (ANI): The coronavirus epidemic in China appears to have started from the cramped prison system, possibly at internment facilities in Xinjiang, according to media reports and social media posts.
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5.1-Magnitude earthquake strikes China's Xinjiang
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], Feb 21 (Sputnik/ANI): An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter's scale hit Kashgar Prefecture in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 11:39 pm local time, the China Earthquake Networks Centre reported.
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US asks countries to speak out against Chinese mistreatment of Muslims
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington DC [US], Feb 07 (ANI): United States on Thursday asked all countries to speak out against mistreatment of Muslims living in China especially in Xinjiang region by Chinese authorities.
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Beijing grants 11-day visa extension to Pakistani nationals stranded in Xi
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb 1 (ANI): A group of Pakistani students and community members stranded in Urumqi city, the capital of Xinjiang province in China's far northwest, due to suspension of flights in the wake of the new coronavirus outbreak have been granted an 11-day visa extension by au
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150 Pakistanis stuck at airport in Xinjiang amid coronavirus outbreak
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Xinjiang [China], Feb 01 (ANI): A group of 150 Pakistani citizens is stranded at an airport in Xinjiang as Islamabad suspended its flights to and from China amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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5.8 magnitude earthquake strikes China's Xinjiang province
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Jan 19 (ANI): An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale struck China's Xinjiang province on Sunday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.
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China attempting to erase its own citizens' faiths, cultures through repre
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Dec 29 (ANI): US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Saturday slammed China's ruling Communist Party for ill-treatment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang and people in Tibet Autonomous Region, saying that Beijing is attempting to erase its own citizens' faiths and cultures t
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Rugby star Bill Williams tweets in support of China's Uighur minority
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 24 (ANI): New Zealand's rugby star Sonny Bill Williams has spoken out on the alleged human rights abuses by China against the ethnic Uighur minority group in the country's Xinjiang region.
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Bilawal accused Pak govt of changing CPEC route to deprived Baloch people
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Quetta [Pakistan], Dec 16 (ANI): Pakistan opposition's PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has accused Prime Minister Imran Khan-led government of modifying the route of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) with an aim to keep Balochistan deprived of its share of benefits from the project
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Soccer player Mesut Ozil uses social media to speak against China's polici
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], Dec 15 (ANI): Mesut Ozil, a German footballer who plays for Premier League club Arsenal, has come under fire after he used the social media to speak against China's policies in Xinjiang and the silence of Muslim communities towards the injustice.
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China condemns US passing Uighur crackdown bill
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Dec 4 (ANI): China on Wednesday came down heavily on the United States after the House of Representatives approved a bill that would require the Trump administration to toughen its response to Beijing's crackdown on its Muslim minority in Xinjiang, mostly ethnic Uighurs, who
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