Daily Times

On September 25, Los Angeles Times published an article with sensational headline ‘A Pakistani Father Ordeal’, and in its continuation a Pakistani newspaper on September 30, right after five days of the Times article and a day before China’s National Day celebrations, published the same content with different author with the sensational heading of ‘Lost in Xinjiang’, in which they both break all the previous records of lies, fabrication and deliberate misinterpretations.

This article started with extremely twisted and misconceived story of Sikanadar Hayat’s family back in Xinjiang and try to connect his issue with so called self-assumed ethnic and religious oppression in Xinjiang, I personally met and talked with Mr. Sikandar Hayat in Rawalpindi for better understanding of the actual issue on 1st of October, and Mr. Hayat totally disowned the content of the article the Los Angeles Times published on 25th of September and amazingly until I met him on October 1st, Mr. Sikandar was totally unaware of another article published locally in Pakistani newspaper on 30th of September with same content, Mr. Sikandar Hayat explained about how this interview was conducted by some journalists a year earlier in presence of few other Pakistani husbands during the protest for their Xinjiang based wives, but Mr. Hayat was very surprised that why his story is published in this manner now with totally different perspective and wrong projection of the actual facts he stated during combined interview a year earlier.

Sikanadar Hayat also understands one thing very clearly that through this article some western anti-China and anti-Pakistan forces attempted to use his shoulder to aim towards their own targets, However Mr. Sikandar requested me to strongly refute the lies about his family and reflect ground reality on his behalf, but in my opinion, it would be better that Mr. Sikandar should come forward himself to refute the lies these articles published about his family, and Mr. Sikandar Hayat seems ready to expose the lies of both articles at any available platform soon.

Later in this article after presenting Sikanadar Hayat’s and Pakistani husbands misconceived and misreported story, a fake story and baseless claims of another character comes in, Muhammad Umer Khan, a only Pakistani Uighur separatist lives in Rawalpindi, a single self-claimed contact and liaison of Uighur separatist groups in Pakistan, who is master to create different fake stories about Uighurs in Xinjiang, and openly aims to influence Pakistani people to seek and win support for their separation narrative in Pakistan and currently Uighur separatist organizations are funding his activities to promote their narrative in Pakistan as well as to influence Pakistani Uighurs to reflect them as anti-China.

However there are many Ex-Chinese Uighur families living in Pakistan but amazingly whenever the western media try to project the image of Pakistani Uighur it only prefers to interview Umer khan because of his open anti-China narrative, and also try to project Umer’s stance as the stance of Pakistani Uighur community to misguide the world, Umer started his activities in 2009 with instruction of RabiaQadir,( a Uighur separatist leader who escaped from China and took asylum in US), and with the help and collaboration of some Turkish NGO’s like Khubaib Foundation and IHH, he was also seen with Turkish diplomats at that time during occasions of Eid and other social events along with small kids from his immediate family to reflect them as students of his Uighur language class in his family house, which Umer still mentions as family built school near his house in city of Rawalpindi to misguide people.

The current claims of Umer about pressure from Pakistani authorities is an attempt to seek Turkish or Canadian nationality for his family, for which he already formally applied few months ago, and consistently creating different stories to convince his separatist allies that his life is in danger in Pakistan, but he didn’t understand a simple thing that the forces who are funding him to achieve their interest in Pakistan need his activities in Pakistan, not abroad, but soon time will prove it for him,

The Pakistani Ex-Chinese Uighur community always created visible distance from Umer’s anti-China activities. That’s why he often maligns all the Ex-Chinese Uighurs and call them fake Uighurs, like few thousand separatists always claims to be real Uighur and the millions of real Uighurs in Xinjiang are all fake Uighurs, this is the mindset of Uighur separatist.

The last ten years of Umer Khan’s activities are full of many visible contradictions and lies, but some western media tried to validate Umer’s fake constructed narrative and self-claimed history without any verification because it matches with the anti-China narrative which they want to reflect in Pakistan, but in reality if Umer Khan really cares for the wellbeing of Uighur community then why he practically robed many Uighur families in Pakistan? There are many Uighur families who lost their life savings by investing funds in Umer’s fraud project in which their company was offering confirm 5 %+ profit returns every month on long term fix deposit in his fraud project but after collecting enough money invested by local Pakistani Uighurs and deposited by hand without any legal evidence of funds collections, company declared bankrupt and many Uighur families lost their savings invested in his fraud company to get huge profits, but only one good thing happened for Umer khan group, they became the owner of a factory in Manga Mandi in rural Punjab province.

At the end, as author of above piece, I consider it as obligation on myself to be responsible to prove practically with evidence, what I wrote in this article word by word, and as general secretary and founder member of Ex-Chinese association, I hope someone can provide the evidence to prove the claims of Umer and allegations against the activities of Ex-Chinese association and clarify why Sikandar Hayat’s issue is misreported with extreme fabrication and deliberate lies.

The writer is General Secretary of Ex-Chinese Association, Ralwalpindi, Pakistan