Uighur Militants Threaten Sino-Pak Ties

Uighur Militants Threaten Sino-Pak Ties

The much-trumpeted all-weather Pakistan-China friendship has received a major setback following Beijing's August 1 allegation that Uyghur militants involved in two bomb blasts in July in Kashgar city of Xinjiang province were trained in the tribal areas of Pakistan.

Since the blasts, which killed 18, Chinese officials have publicly claimed for the first time in recent years that the attackers were trained in explosives in camps run by the al-Qaeda-linked East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM).

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