Pakistan’s Khan backs China on Uighurs, praises one-party system

Imran Khan repeats support for Chinese government with regard to its policies in Muslim-majority Xinjiang province.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has repeated his country’s support for the Chinese government regarding its policies in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang province, while also praising the country’s one-party system as offering a better model for societies compared with electoral democracy. Khan was speaking to members of the Chinese news media who were visiting Islamabad as part of the 100th anniversary celebrations of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Thursday. Rights groups accuse China of systematic and widespread  “mass internment and torture amounting to crimes against humanity” against the Muslim population in its southwestern Xinjiang province.