(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) President Mamnoon Hussain Wednesday said "almost all Uyghur militants" have been eliminated from Pakistan. Pakistan's President told Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing "an anti-terror operation codenamed Zarb-e-Azb has successfully eradicated terrorism - militant group the East Turkestan Islamic Movement - from our country". "I think almost all the ETIM people in our country have been eliminated. Maybe, if they are there, there should be very few," Hussain said.
China blames violent unrest in its far western region of Xinjiang on Islamist separatist groups like ETIM, who it says want to set up an independent state called East Turkestan and have bases in countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan.
China says ETIM recruits Uyghurs and trains them with extremist groups in Syria and Iraq, with the intent of returning to Xinjiang to wage a holy war. Many foreign experts question China's claims on the existence of ETIM group, according to a news agency report.
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