Afghanistan has agreed to cooperate with China against four Uighur separatist groups Beijing has branded âterroristsâ for trying to create an independent Islamic state in northwest China. âChina has recently listed four organisations as terrorist organisations in China that have links to international terrorism and Afghanistan will cooperate with China in this regard,â Omar Samad told reporters after Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah met with visiting Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Lu Xinhua.
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The groups are accused of carrying out a series of bombings and assassinations in an attempt to create an independent Islamic state of âEast Turkistanâ in Xinjiang, which is populated by the Turkic-speaking Uighur Muslims. China last week said two of the groups â the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement and Eastern Turkistan Liberation Organization â had received millions of dollars from al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to spread religious extremism and carry out terrorist activities. Beijing claimed some of the groups had established bases outside China, including in Chechnya and Afghanistan, to train terrorists. |