China's big mistake': Pakistanis lobby to free wives trapped in Xinjiang

[Dante80]

It's a objective measure like "good food". In this context a terrorist is those who compromise national interest of Pakistan or it's foremost ally the athiest People's Repblic of China. Which pretty well now underwrites Pakistan Army/Airforce weapon purchases and as a strategic counter-weight to the US/India hegemonistic designs on the region.

So any party or group that goes against the strategic alliance [uses any form of force] between Chia-Pak is a fcukin terrorist.

That does not make much sense if you think about it a little though. I understand that it is imperative from a national interest point of view to keep your strategic and diplomatic ties intact. This should inform both your bilateral relations and your foreign policy actions.

"Terrorism" though is a pretty specific thing. It is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror among masses of people; or fear to achieve a financial, political, religious or ideological aim. It is used in this regard primarily to refer to violence against peacetime targets or in war against non-combatants.

Any entity that projects an opposite, conflicting or adversarial force against your stated strategic relations is an adversary, not a terrorist. Someone that suffers and is used - while unaffiliated - by said entity against your stated strategic relations is neither an adversary nor a terrorist.

It is simply someone that you have chosen to NOT care about, because you deem said caring to be against your quantified interests. As long as you are clear about that and don't choose to mislabel him to morally justify your interests on top, there is really nothing wrong with it.

Other than the innate hypocrisy of course, but that is the name of the game in Real Politik after all.