Uighur Separatists Rebuilding Under Taliban, Says U.N. Report

A recent U.N. Security Council report says that Uighur separatists have been allowed to rebuild their strength in Afghanistan under the Taliban, reports the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong).

China has been pressing the Taliban government to crack down on the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), also known as the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), which seeks an independent Uighur state in China’s western Xinjiang region.

ETIM is active in Afghanistan and Syria and has developed...