Afghan Uyghurs whose families fled China now fear the Taliban could deport them
BEIJING — In 1961, Muhammad’s also-teenage parents loaded as numerous things as they could onto yaks and nags, also set off walking toward the snow- sloped Pamir mountains. Their destination Afghanistan. They were among hundreds of Uyghurs who have fled northwest China’s Xinjiang region to Afghanistan since the 1950s. The Uyghurs, a substantially Muslim Turkic […]