Ibrahim Kurban, from Terim township in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture’s Yopurgha (Yuepuhu) county, disappeared in May 2016 while awaiting a flight from the XUAR capital Urumqi that would eventually bring him to Turkey, a friend told RFA’s Uyghur Service on condition of anonymity.

On January 8, 1914, I arrived at Charkhlik (map, Fig. 1) together with three of my Indian assistants.

It was forty degrees below.

[…] we may by these means, with some little inconvenience, avoid the pain and arrive at a vegete old age.