By Ahmed Hashmi

China has been one of our great friend, sympathizer, defense partner and supporter in the global affairs. The friendship of Pakistan and China is known to be stronger than a diamonds edge, ranging from cultural cooperation, free trade treaties, access to markets and defense cooperation (including joint production of JF 17 thunder supersonic fighter planes and Raytheon cloned AMRAAMs).

A few months ago, the then Ameer of the Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, Mr. Qazi Hussain Ahmed along with his crew (including Munawar Hassan (now Ameer), Liaqat Baloch, Sirajul Haq) visited China on the expenses of the Chinese government during February year, and to everyone’s surprise his ‘official’ tour began from the province of Sichuan (for readers’ knowledge Sichuan is the only Muslim majority province in China).

Upon reaching Beijing Capital Intl. Airport from Pakistan, Mr. Qazi Hussain was received by a few shadowy members of the Chinese Communist Party including one government-appointed Muslim cleric. Now once again to everyone’s surprise, they boarded a chartered plane without even leaving the Beijing airport, again – sponsored by the Chinese government, which flew them directly to the Chengdu city (capital of the Sichuan province), where they spent an unknown number of hours with government officials and had negotiations on an unknown subject (Lets guess what a leader of a political party could negotiate, when he’s not part of the government or even the opposition in his own country? full stop).

Last year’s Beijing Olympics 2008 committee had warned that they have received number of threats from the Muslim separatists group named Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP). For my readers’ knowledge, this is a religion-led version of that of separatists of Tibet, China.

Following the coming Friday, Qazi Hussain flew to Xian (English: Shiaan) city in the province of Shaanxi, where he gave Jumma speech in a 1250-year-old, historical “Jamia Masjid of Xian”. In that speech Mr. Qazi Hussain emphasized that all Chinese Muslims should work hard for the development and stability of their country, China.

Following Saturday 14^th February 2009, Qazi Hussain along with his crew, flew to Shanghai where he met with top government officials at a government building located at the Nanjing East Road, Shang Hai and they exchanged unknown gifts.

Why Qazi Hussain didn’t meet any non-shadowy government officials of the Chinese government upon entering China/during the first week of his visit? But only met them once he arrived at the Shanghai Airport after 8 days of his presence in China!?

The suspicion these facts are creating doesn’t end here. The Communist Party of China signed an “unknown” term of agreement with the Jamaat-e-Islami, bypassing the Government of Pakistan, the Foreign Office and the Zardari/PPP Government. This is historically the first time the Chinese Communist party signed an agreement with a foreign-country political party (and a religious-political party).

So when Chinese government saw increasing influence of the United States in Pakistan, they were definitely shaky about how/if the Government of Pakistan would really mean the unity of China to remain intact, and following an immediate move, they signed this unknown agreement directly with Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, in which Jamaat literally agrees that “Jamaat-e-Islami would oppose any Muslim separatists movement to break China including East Turkestan Islamic Party (Xinjiang’s division of separatists)”

I leave this to my readers to grasp the conclusion of the “mission” the then Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami was on while on his Chinese-government sponsored visit to China.

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