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The following is research published today, from the MEMRI South Asia Studies Project. Indian Writer B. Raman Blames U.S. Policy for Militant Activities in China's Xinjiang Province, Says: 'The Jamaat-e-Islami of Pakistan Contributes Money Regularly to the ETIM And Helps Many Uighur Students in Pakistan' Urdu Daily: Chinese Military Taking Over Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan Considering Proposal to Lease the Disputed Region to China for 50 Years Special Dispatch No. 4488–Pakistan/China/South Asia Studies Project/Jihad and Terrorism Studies Project Indian Writer B. Raman Blames U.S. Policy for Militant Activities in China's Xinjiang Province, Says: 'The Jamaat-e-Islami of Pakistan Contributes Money Regularly to the ETIM And Helps Many Uighur Students in Pakistan' Map courtesy: thechinabeat.blogpost.com In a recent article, former Indian official and security affairs analyst B. Raman blamed U.S. policy for some militant activities carried out by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) in the wider Xinjiang region. The article, titled "The Xinjiang Angle" was published by the website of India's noted weekly magazine Outlook. Raman, formerly an Additional Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat of the Government of India, is Director of the Institute for Tropical Studies, Chennai, India. In the article, Raman says that there "are strong indicators from independent sources in the Uighur diaspora in Pakistan that the disturbances in Xinjiang in the first week of July 2009 were initially externally-instigated by the Munich-based and U.S.-funded World Uighur Congress (WUC)." The former Indian official adds: "The WUC is funded openly and helped in other ways such as the training of its cadres by the Congressionally-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED) of the U.S. and the Holland-based Unrepresented Nations' and Peoples' Organization (UNPO)." He further writes: "Whereas the WUC fights against the Han Chinese because they are in occupation of the traditional Uighur homeland, the ETIM fights against the Hans because it says they are infidels, who are in occupation of territory which historically belonged to the [Muslim] Ummah. While the WUC till recently drew most of its members from the Uighur diaspora in the West and Australia, the ETIM has been drawing its members from the Uighur diaspora in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries. While the WUC gets most of its funds from North America, West Europe and Australia, the ETIM has been getting its funds from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. According to reliable Uighur sources in Pakistan, the Jamaat-e-Islami of Pakistan contributes money regularly to the ETIM and helps many Uighur students in Pakistan." To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6077.htm. Inquiry & Analysis No. 4487–Pakistan/China/South Asia Studies Project Urdu Daily: Chinese Military Taking Over Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan Considering Proposal to Lease the Disputed Region to China for 50 Years By Tufail Ahmad* A copy of the December 13, 2011 report in Roznama Bang-e-Sahar According to a report published by an Urdu-language newspaper, Pakistan is considering a proposal to lease the strategic region of Gilgit Baltistan to China. The Pakistani move is aimed at fortifying its strategic relations with China amid the irreparable rupture in U.S.-Pakistan relations over the past year. Gilgit Baltistan, previously known as the Northern Areas, shares the international border with China. Like Pakistani-occupied Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan – which had been part of the princely state of Jammu & Kashmir during the British rule – is not formally part of Pakistan and is not under the jurisdiction of Pakistani constitution. There are no representatives from Gilgit Baltistan in the Pakistani parliament or federal government institutions. The report – titled "Pakistan's Deteriorating Situation, Strained Relations with America: Deliberation on Leasing Gilgit Baltistan to China for 50 years" – was published in the Urdu-language dailyRoznama Bang-e-Sahar, a newspaper distributed in Gilgit Baltistan on December 13, 2011, less than three weeks after the November 26, 2011 NATO raid on a Pakistani border post that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6076.htm.