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The Afghan government claimed on Monday that militia loyal to army chief of staff and powerful former warlord Abdul Rashi Dostum is interfering with oil exploration by Chinese state-run petroleum giant CNPC<\/a><\/strong>, which signed a lucrative deal late last year<\/a> to develop oil fields in the northern part of the country. From Reuters:<\/p>\n

The deal covering drilling and a refinery in the northern provinces of Sar-e Pul and Faryab, where Dostum is from, is the first international oil production agreement reached by the Afghan government for several decades.<\/p>\n

Two government officials said supporters of Dostum were demanding a share of the proceeds. “Armed men belonging to General Dostum are intimidating the Chinese engineers in the area and creating obstacles to exploring the oil block,” a top aide to Karzai said.<\/p>\n

He said that at a cabinet meeting chaired by Karzai last week, the mines ministry complained about interference by Dostum, a powerful former warlord who holds the largely ceremonial post of army chief of staff.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Dostum’s National Front party denied the allegations and said the government was trying to defame the general.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The news comes in the wake of a meeting between Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai<\/a> in Beijing at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit this past week<\/a>, where China announced a 150 RMB grant to the Afghan government as the two sides touted the to ensure a positive strategic relationship. In their joint declaration, according to Xinhua News, the border nations also rejected the forces of terrorism, extremism, separatism and organized crime<\/a>. While China has made investments for the development of oil, gas and mining projects, The New York Times reports that its true interest lies in Afghan security<\/a><\/strong> and, more importantly, its own internal security after Western troops withdraw from the country in 2014:<\/p>\n

China\u2019s major worry is the prospect of a Taliban-dominated Afghanistan lending sanctuary to the separatist group, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, led by ethnic Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking, largely Muslim people in the autonomous western region of Xinjiang. The group wants a breakaway homeland in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n

In official statements, the Chinese government refrains from specifying the threat of Afghanistan\u2019s harboring Uighur separatists, but an orderly transfer of power that would stop short of a Taliban takeover appears to be of uppermost importance for China.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

China\u2019s main concern is about how post-2014 Afghanistan will affect China\u2019s internal security, the analysts said.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina\u2019s first concern is national security and to make sure the Uighurs don\u2019t get more strength,\u201d said Yun Sun, a Washington-based analyst specializing in China\u2019s neighbors. \u201cThe official line is that the Uighurs get terrorist training in Afghanistan and Pakistan.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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