India, Sept. 27 -- Pakistani national Sakandar Hayat's life was turned upside down in recent months when his wife and son were detained by Chinese security officials as they are Uyghurs.

When Hayat and his son Arafat were staying in Pakistan for weeks then at that time they received a phone call from Xinjiang, the controversial region in China where hundreds of Uyghur Muslims are believed to have been kept in re-education camps.

Hayat's wife, an ethnic Uyghur, had been detained. He and Arafat raced to the border, where Chinese police were waiting. They arrested Arafat, a Uyghur like his mother, saying he would be questioned on what he had done in Pakistan, reports Los Angeles Times.

"Don't separate us," Hayat begged the police as quote...