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Dolkun urges not to be compared with Masood Azhar

Dolkun urges not to be compared with Masood Azhar
New Delhi, Apr 25 (UNI) Uyghur leader Dolkun Isa, whose visa was cancelled by the Indian Government at the eleventh hour, today expressed his disappointment over the move and said his case should not be linked or compared to China’s recent veto by the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee of Pakistan based terrorist Maulana Masood Azhar. In an emailed interview to UNI, Mr Isa said, "I reject any comparison or association to China’s recent veto by the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee of Pakistani militant leader, Masood Azhar." The Indian Government had issued e-visa to Mr Isa to attend an interfaith conference in Dharamsala, seat of Tibet government in asylum, barely a month after China scuttled India's attempt to get Jaish-e-Mohammad chief listed as a terrorist by the 1267 committee of the UN. Issuance of visa by the Indian External Affairs ministry was being projected as a diplomatic tit-for-tat to China. "Such an unjustifiable comparison seeks only to delegitimize my decades of impassioned work as a strictly non-violent campaigner for Uyghur rights" said Mr Isa. The human right activist in his capacity as the Executive Committee Chairman of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) was invited to participate in the conference, which is being held from April 30 to may 1. The MEA cancelled his visa after the Government's move left China fuming, although sources in the government clarified that India did not buckle under Chinese pressure. Even though, the Uyghur leader expressed his disappointment over the MEA's move but said, "I recognise and understand the difficult position that the Indian government found itself, and regret that my trip has generated such unwarranted controversy. The Indian government had granted him a tourist e-visa, but it was cancelled after his proposed visit was widely reported in the Indian press. Following numerous reports, Indian authorities then proceeded to rescind the visa on April 23. He said this was not the first time that he had faced difficulties in his international travels to advocates Uyghur rights. In September 2009, he was detained briefly and denied entry to South Korea while travelling to attend the World Forum for Democratization in Asia, to which he was an invited guest. "China also has regularly attempted to block or interfere with my human rights work at the UN in Geneva, in particular," he pointed out. "Historically speaking, the Uyghur community has maintained friendly ties with the Indian people. The Indian government hosted our late leader, Isa Yusuf Alptekin and Uyghur refugees after they fled China in 1949. UNI MK SHS 1404
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