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A number of Muslim extremists detained by the Chinese authorities have confessed to have undergone militant training in Taleban-controlled camps 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.
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