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Extremists confess to
training in Afghanistan

A Novosti dispatch quoted Dr Rau Rongzu, head of a Chinese delegation to an Islamabad seminar, as having echoed his country's concerns over an emergent Islamic extremism in the autonomous region of Xinjiang-uigur, in its north-western flank.

''The Chinese authorities have detained Islamic extremists involved in subversive activities in the country, who have confessed to have undergone training in the Taleban-controlled camps in Afghanistan,'' he said.

The proliferation of Islamic separatism was accompanied by an increase in drug-trafficking, Dr Rongzu added.

China, he said, was determined to fight back extremism in all its forms.

Ironically, it is Beijing's long-time friend Pakistan which patronises the Taleban that backs Islamic extremism in China and elsewhere in central Asia, he commented.

UNI

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