The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the People’s Republic of China for its ongoing genocide and colonial occupation of East Turkistan, and the Government of Pakistan for endorsing it in its Joint Statement with Beijing of 26 May 2026. In backing “China’s just stance on issues concerning Xinjiang,” Beijing’s colonial name for our occupied country, meaning “New Territory,” Pakistan has made itself an active accomplice to the gravest colonial occupation and genocide of the modern era.

This is no isolated lapse but an annual ritual. Year after year, joint statement after joint statement, Islamabad recites Beijing’s line on command, having long ago traded its sovereignty for Chinese loans, weapons, and patronage. Pakistan has now called “just” the internment of millions of Muslims in concentration camps, mass enslavement through forced labor, the forced sterilization of Muslim women, the seizure of over a million children to be raised as atheist Chinese, the killing of tens of thousands Muslims each year for their organs, the demolition of more than 16,000 mosques, and the criminalization of Muslim names, prayer, fasting, the Quran, and the practice of Islam itself in Occupied East Turkistan.

Pakistan’s complicity is not new. We categorically reject the joint statement’s invocation of the so-called “ETIM,” a label China fabricated after 9/11 by copying the acronym of the East Turkistan Independence Movement to recast a legitimate liberation struggle as “terrorism.” It was in Pakistan, China’s all-weather ally, that Beijing manufactured the fiction of a Uyghur “Islamist” and “terrorist” threat through the establishment of the “East Turkistan Islamic Party” in September 1997, using it to falsely brand and demonize our just cause as connected to international terrorism and a “jihad” for a “global Islamic caliphate.” Pakistan helped build the original face of this lie nearly thirty years ago, and by endorsing it again today, keeps it alive to justify China’s ongoing genocide to this day.

“That Pakistan, a state that presents itself as a defender of oppressed Muslims, would bless the genocide and colonial subjugation of tens of millions of Muslims and parrot their executioner’s propaganda exposes that claim as hollow,” said Salih Hudayar, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Security of the ETGE. “Islamabad’s signature does not make genocide and colonial occupation just.”

The ETGE calls on the Government of Pakistan to reverse its treacherous actions by recognizing East Turkistan as an occupied country, condemning China’s genocide and colonial occupation, and ceasing all political, intelligence, and security cooperation that enables them. We further call on every conscientious Pakistani to reject their government’s endorsement of China’s genocide and colonial occupation of East Turkistan, and to raise their hands in prayer, especially on the Day of Arafah and Eid al-Adha, for the swift liberation of East Turkistan and the restoration of its independence.