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Pakistan has never shied away from condemning other countries for atrocities against Muslim groups, but it has been silent on the topic of Uyghur human rights violations in Xinjiang.According to the International Forum for Rights and Security, China’s economic rise and growing presence in Pakistan, owing to its investment in the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), has given Beijing unprecedented scope to carry out ‘Transnational Repression’ in the country, including human rights violations and persecution of Uyghur minorities in the Xinjiang region (IFFRAS). Chinese authorities had included Pakistan on the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XAR) list of 26 blacklisted countries....
