Kabul: The inhuman atrocities of the Uyghur-descent Muslims by the Communist regime of China has begun to be felt in Afghanistan. In the last year and a half, China’s investment in Afghanistan has become the target of IS-Khorasan attacks. This has been the reaction from IS to China’s treatment of Uyghur descent. But at the same time, an international news agency has claimed that IS and other terrorist organisations are warning China, which is preparing to attack rare mineral resources in Afghanistan.

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In the first week of January, China’s Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas (CAPEIC) signed a 25-year fuel deal with the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The agreement concerned the fuel fields in the Amu River valley in northwestern Afghanistan. Besides it also included an excavation contract at the Mes Aynak Copper Mine Project near Kabul’s capital. Moreover, China had announced an investment of $54 crore for this.

But IS had warned that China’s investment in Afghanistan would not be safe in its mouthpiece in September last year. China may be daydreaming that we would expand imperialism also in Afghanistan, like Xinjiang. But the IS had threatened that China, which looted the mineral resources of the Muslims in Afghanistan and persecuted the Ughur descent, would have to pay the price, the news agency Nike Asia pointed out.

At the same time, the news agency pointed out that the attacks on China’s investments and interests in Afghanistan have increased in the last few months. In December, IS terrorists launched a major attack on a hotel in Kabul, famous for the hustle and bustle of Chinese businessmen, investors and officials. Five Chinese citizens were seriously injured in this. The news agency recalled that after the increasing attacks on its citizens in Afghanistan, the Chinese ambassador had met the senior commander of the Taliban and demanded to provide security to the Chinese citizens.

Meanwhile, considering the threat of increasing IS attacks, China has increased the security of the Kashgar Corridor connecting Afghanistan. In addition, The IS terrorists will infiltrate China and launch attacks through this border has been the worry that pesters China.