Al Jazeera documentary on Balochistan: Pakistan’s other war
The ongoing conflict in Pakistan’s largest in terms of area but smallest in terms of population province of Balochistan is often called Pakistan’s “dirty war”. In the following Al Jazeera documentary ethnic Baloch politicians and leaders share their vision of self-determination and freedom from Pakistan’s military establishment’s rule. The documentary is followed by an analysis of fundamental rights violations in Balochistan by veteran Baloch rights activist Sheikh Asad Rahman.
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In the rugged mountains of southwest Pakistan lies the country’s largest province of Balochistan. Far from the bustling cities of Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad, this remote region has been the battleground for a 60-year-long insurgency by the Baloch ethnic minority.
“The Baloch people now live in a state of war. Every day, they face injustice. The army and intelligence agents kidnap our young, and we know nothing about them for years. The Baloch people live in a state of war. We will not accept any offers until we regain control over this land. They burn down our homes and then ask us for peace? We are not stupid.”
– Baloch Khan, Baloch rebel leader
The ongoing conflict is often called Pakistan’s dirty war, because of the rising numbers of people who have disappeared or have been killed on both sides.
But the uprising against Pakistan’s government has received little attention worldwide, in part because most eyes have been focused on the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in other areas of Pakistan.
Bordering Iran and Afghanistan, Balochistan remains notorious for cross-border smuggling and has more recently been infiltrated by former members of the Taliban and al-Qaeda operatives. Few outsiders gain access or permission to travel in the region.
Al Jazeera’s Ahmad Zaidan travelled to Balochistan to meet with key Balochi politicians who explain the history and current circumstances of the region and to get an exclusive interview with the leader of the Balochistan rebel movement seeking secession from Pakistan.
This film offers a glimpse into a region which, in 2010, had the highest number of militant, insurgent and sectarian attacks of any province in Pakistan. It is a region torn apart with separatist organisations attacking the state, sectarian and ethnic attacks, and crime, including kidnapping for ransom. (Source)
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ANALYSIS: Fundamental rights violations in Balochistan — by Sheikh Asad Rahman
Fundamental and human rights violations take place every day in Balochistan. In the past year over 300 mutilated bullet-riddled bodies of Baloch political leaders, workers, activists, students, teachers, lower grade public servants, have been dumped at desolate places or roadsides. Sectarian violence, especially targeting the Hazara Shia community (hitherto unknown in Balochistan and only in the past three years), and ethnic violence has seen an unprecedented rise. Most of these bodies are of missing persons (Baloch sources claim over 1,300 missing) who had been abducted by the perpetrators years ago and some recently. The families of the missing persons have been demonstrating, rallying in front of the Press Clubs of Quetta and even Islamabad trying to secure some information about their whereabouts but to no avail. Hundreds of cases are pending in the Balochistan High Court but no perpetrator has so far been identified leave alone docked.
In the past three years there have been credible fact-finding reports by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and Asian Human Rights Watch (AHRW) pointing to actions of the security agencies in the perpetuation of this violence that can be termed crimes against humanity and violation of constitutionally mandated fundamental rights. There are eyewitnesses in most cases of abduction but they are unwilling to expose themselves to a very real threat to their lives. The police surgeon, Dr Baqir Shah, whose forensic examination pointed to unwarranted shooting and killing of five unarmed foreigners by Frontier Corps (FC) soldiers in the Kharotabad incident, was shot dead the other day by unknown assailants. Since an impartial investigation into his murder is unlikely as in so many other cases, this murder will also remain unsolved like the hundreds others.
Balochistan’s governor and chief minister have publicly declared that the FC is running a parallel government not answerable to the civilian government and answers only to GHQ. To clarify the status of the FC, it is a paramilitary organisation, ostensibly reporting to the provincial government where it is acting in aid of civil power but practically being led by serving army officers who report directly to GHQ, where the officers’ loyalties lie. Considering the prime minister’s assertions on the floor of the National Assembly of a state within a state, the provincial chief minister’s and governor’s statements reinforce the prime minister’s assertion. The question, therefore, arises how is it possible for a security state to exist within a constitutional and democratic state? For understanding this we need to go to the root cause; the basic law of the land that defines the people’s fundamental rights and parameters of the institutions.
Article 245: Functions of Armed Forces reads: “(1) The armed forces shall, under the directions of the federal government, defend Pakistan against external aggression or threat of war, and, subject to law, act in aid of civil power when called upon to do so. (2) The validity of any direction issued by the federal government under clause (1) shall not be called in question in any court. (3) A high court shall not exercise any jurisdiction under Article 199 in relation to any area in which the armed forces of Pakistan are, for the time being, acting in aid of civil power in pursuance of Article 245: Provided that this clause shall not be deemed to affect the jurisdiction of the high court in respect of any proceeding pending immediately before the day on which the armed forces start acting in aid of civil power. (4) Any proceeding in relation to an area referred to in clause (3) instituted on or after the day the armed forces start acting in aid of civil power and pending in any high court shall remain suspended for the period during which the armed forces are so acting.”
In simple parlance this means no action of the armed forces acting in aid of civil power can be challenged in any high court while clause (2) says clearly that no court, even the Supreme Court, can question the federal government’s calling the armed forces in aid of civil power.
This unbridled and carte blanche authority without any checks, balances or accountability leads to the violation of the following fundamental rights. Article 9: Security of Person reads: “No person shall be deprived of life or liberties save in accordance with law.” Article 10 reads: “Safeguards as to arrest and detention. (1) No person who is arrested shall be detained in custody without being informed, as soon as may be, of the grounds for such arrest, nor shall he be denied the right to consult and be defended by a legal practitioner of his choice. (2) Every person who is arrested and detained in custody shall be produced before a magistrate within a period of 24 hours of such arrest, excluding the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the court of the nearest magistrate, and no such person shall be detained in custody beyond the said period without the authority of a magistrate. (3) Nothing in clauses (1) and (2) shall apply to any person who is arrested or detained under any law providing for preventive detention. (4) No law providing for preventive detention shall be made except to deal with persons acting in a manner prejudicial to the integrity, security or defence of Pakistan or any part thereof, or external affairs of Pakistan, or public order, or the maintenance of supplies or services, and no such law shall authorise the detention of a person for a period exceeding three months unless the appropriate Review Board has, after affording him an opportunity of being heard in person, reviewed his case and reported, before the expiration of the said period, that there is, in its opinion, sufficient cause for such detention, and, if the detention is continued after the said period of three months, unless the appropriate Review Board has reviewed his case and reported, before the expiration of each period of three months, that there is, in its opinion, sufficient cause for such detention. “
Article 10A: Right to fair trial reads: “For the determination of his civil rights and obligations or in any criminal charge against him a person shall be entitled to a fair trial and due process.” Article 14: Inviolability of dignity of man, etc, reads: “(1) The dignity of man and, subject to law, the privacy of home, shall be inviolable; (2) No person shall be subjected to torture for the purpose of extracting evidence.”
It is, therefore, imperative for parliament to review articles and clauses that allow the violation of fundamental rights in peace time leave alone in an emergency. Parliament must have oversight over the actions of the armed forces and the superior judiciary, the Supreme Court and the high courts, need to be empowered to hold to account gross fundamental and human rights violations allegedly committed by the armed forces. If the recommendations of the Hamoodur Rehman Commission had been implemented and responsible military and civilian officials duly held accountable, tried in courts and punished, citizens in Balochistan would not be facing genocide today. (Source)
Excellent documentary and excellent analysis of the Balochistan situation by Sheikh Asad.
Balochistan is Pakistan’s Achilles heal?
By South Asia Intelligence Review/IBNS
At least 16 persons, including women and children, were killed and another 35 were injured in a suicide attack near the residence of tribal elder Shafiq Mengal, son of former acting Chief Minister and Federal Minister Naseer Mengal, on Arbab Karam Khan Road in Quetta, the Provincial capital of Balochistan, on December 30, 2011. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the attack.
Prior to that, on December 29, 2011, unidentified assailants shot dead a Police surgeon, Baqir Shah, who had played a key role in exposing the extra-judicial killing of five foreigners, including three women, in Quetta. Shah, who reportedly had not been provided any security despite being attacked in the past, had conducted the autopsy of five foreigners, including Russians and Tajiks, who were shot dead by Pakistani Security Forces (SFs) in Quetta on May 17, 2011. The autopsy report had contradicted the Quetta Police Chief Daud Junejo’s claim that the foreigners had not died due to shooting by law enforcement personnel, but because of a blast which they triggered with the help of explosives and suicide vests. Shah’s report revealed that they died from “multiple bullet wounds”. Significantly, while media reports had then claimed that the victims were unarmed and carried no explosives, footage on several TV news channels had shown SF personnel firing a volley of bullets at the foreigners as they lay on the ground near a security check post.
Earlier, three bullet-riddled bodies of Baloch Nationalist Party – Mengal (BNP-M) activists were found in the Zero Point area of Khuzdar District on December 12, 2011. The victims, identified as Bashir Ahmed, Sanaullah Mardoi and Allah Bakhsh Mardoi, had been abducted earlier, on an unspecified date.
Balochistan has for long earned notoriety as the land of extra judicial killings, disappearances, SF high handedness, and repression, as well as a playground for terrorists operating beyond the frontiers of the Country. The Province witnessed 711 fatalities, including 542 civilians, 122 SF personnel and 47 militants in 2011, as against 347 fatalities, comprising of 274 civilians, 59 SF personnel and 14 militants in 2010, according to partial data compiled by the Institute for Conflict Management (ICM, all data till December 31, 2011. These numbers are likely to be underestimates, as access to media and independent observers is severely restricted in Balochistan). Overall fatalities in 2011 thus increased by 104.89 per cent over the preceding year. Incidents of killing rose by 116 per cent, from 150 in 2010 to 321 in 2011. Further, the number of major incidents (each involving three or more fatalities) increased by 152.17 percent, with 58 such incidents recorded in 2011, as against 23 in 2010.
More worryingly, fatalities among civilians increased by almost 97.81 per cent, and at least 123 of 542 civilian killings appeared to be “extra judicial” in nature – that is, executed by state agencies. The victims of these extrajudicial executions were either political activists or people opposing the oppressive nature of governance in the Province.
Unsurprisingly, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), a non-governmental organisation, in a statement issued on December 9, 2011, observed,
Bodies of at least 225 ‘missing persons’ have been recovered from various parts of the Province since July 2010. The situation is particularly grave for non-Muslims and minority Muslim sects. As many as 80 members of the Shia community have been killed in the Province this year [2011] alone, for no reason other than their religious belief. HRCP also has serious concern at targeted killing of teachers, intellectuals and non-Baloch ‘settlers’ in Balochistan. The murder of two HRCP activists and three journalists in the Province in 2011 signifies the dangers that those highlighting human rights violations face on a daily basis. It is a matter of grave alarm that 107 new cases of enforced disappearance have been reported in Balochistan in 2011, and the ‘missing persons’ are increasingly turning up dead. It is scandalous that not a single person has been held accountable for these disappearances and killings.
Earlier, on September 18, 2011, the Commission had expressed ‘serious concern’ over the increasing number of decomposed bodies of missing persons being recovered from different parts of Balochistan, noting,
Around 188 decomposed dead bodies have so far been dumped in desolate places in different parts of Balochistan since June 4, 2010… Most of the victims were political opponents, students and cream of the society.
A report of the fact-finding mission of the HRCP which visited the Province between May 4 and 7, 2011 had observed,
Enforced disappearances continue to be a matter of great concern.
It has been noted that dead bodies recovered have had signs of extreme torture.
All authority seems to vest with the Security Forces. The civil administration, elected by the people and meant to represent them, appears to have ceded its powers.
Perturbed by the worsening situation, Pakistan’s Chief Justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, on March 2, 2011, remarked that the Government should take practical steps instead of issuing policy statements regarding abduction and targeted killings in Balochistan. Significantly, during the course of the proceedings, Balochistan’s Advocate General Salahuddin Mengal observed,
We are recovering dead bodies day in and day out as the FC [Frontier Constabulary] and Police are lifting people in broad daylight at will, but we are helpless. Who can check the FC? End the burning issue of missing persons first and then blame the Balochistan Government for not controlling law and order.
Regrettably, however, FC Inspector General Major General Ubaidullah Khattak on December 13, 2011, simply dismissed these allegations and claimed that 90 per cent of the missing Baloch persons were involved in criminal activities and had been killed by their own organisations.
Not surprisingly, Sardar Ataullah Mengal, senior leader of the BNP-M, on December 19, 2011, warned that Balochistan would not “remain with” Pakistan if extra-judicial killings of Baloch nationalists and excesses by SFs were not stopped immediately. “Balochistan will not remain with you”, Mengal declared, adding that the violence and killings by SFs had taken “Balochistan to the point of no return” and steps had to be taken to engage the youth “who have been driven into the mountains by the Army”. Similarly, Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) parliamentarian, Lieutenant General (Retd.) Abdul Qadir Baloch, on February 25, 2011, had alleged that the security agencies were behind the abduction and killing of political workers and national activists in Balochistan.
Baloch insurgents and Pashtun Islamist and sectarian terrorists, meanwhile, retained capabilities to carry out acts of sabotage on a daily basis across the Province. Acts of violence were, crucially, not restricted to a few areas, but occurred in practically every one of the 26 Districts of the Province, including capital Quetta. According to FC data, a total of 1,328 violent incidents took place across the Province in 2011.
Terrorist violence in Balochistan has had a significant sectarian overlay. Balochistan witnessed 89 fatalities in 12 incidents of sectarian violence in 2011. 11 of these occurred in Quetta alone, with 63 persons killed. The remaining incident occurred in Mastung District. In the worst such attack in 2011, 26 Shia pilgrims were shot dead by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) militants in Taftan, a town that shares border with Iran, in the Ganjidori area of Mastung District, on September 20, 2011.
Separately, Federal Minister of Interior Rehman Malik, on July 13, 2011, disclosed that, over preceding three years, 134 Punjabi-speaking people had been killed in Balochistan.
As in previous years, Islamist terrorists left no stone unturned to attack and disrupt the principal NATO supply lines to Afghanistan, which pass through Balochistan. Partial data compiled by SATP recorded 59 attacks in Balochistan in 2011, on oil tankers and trucks ferrying NATO supplies, marginally down from 66 in 2010. However, the loss of lives in these attacks rose from 12 in 2010 to at least 19 in 2011.
Rising extremism and violence, attacks on NATO convoys, and the arrest of high profile al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists has repeatedly demonstrated the presence of the Quetta Shura and al Qaeda networks in North Balochistan. Since 2009, at least 22 al Qaeda and six Afghan Taliban militants have been arrested in the region. The Pakistan establishment, however, continues to brazenly deny this reality. Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani on August 4, 2011, dismissed media reports about the existence of Quetta Shura or the presence of Mullah Omar or al Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahiri in Balochistan. Similarly, Federal Minister of Interior Rehman Malik stated, on June 5, 2011, “The propaganda of the Taliban Quetta Shura is baseless, if anyone has concrete evidence about their claims, it must be shared with Government.” And further, “Over 30 raids have been conducted on the presence of Taliban across Balochistan, but they were not found.”
However, the arrest in Quetta of senior al Qaeda leader, Younis al-Mauritani, believed to have been responsible for planning attacks in the US, Europe and Australia, along with two other “senior al Qaeda operatives”, Abdul Ghaffar Al Shami aka Bachar Chama and Messara Al Shami aka Mujahid Amino in a joint raid by the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and the FC, disclosed on September 5, 2011, proves the hypocrisy of the Pakistani claims.
The lackadaisical approach of the Pakistani establishment has evidently emboldened the extremists. While the number of SF personnel killed in 2010 stood at 59, it has increased considerably to 120 in 2011. At least 28 people were killed and over 60 injured in two suicide attacks targeting the residence of the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of the FC, Brigadier Farrukh Shehzad, in Quetta on September 7, 2011. The attacks targeted and wounded the DIG, whose Force was involved in the arrest of Younis al-Mauritani and two other al Qaeda operatives in Quetta, in an operation announced on September 5, 2011.
The quantum jump in violence can be attributed to the rising desperation among the Baloch nationals. Despite Balochistan’s natural resource wealth (including the country’s largest deposits of coal and copper, as well as copious quantities of other minerals), Balochistan is Pakistan’s poorest province, with 45 per cent of the population living below the poverty line. There is rising resentment in the Province over the fact that, despite the annual revenue of USD 1.4 billion that the Province’s gas output generates, the Federal Government remits only USD 116 million in royalties back to the Province.
Baloch nationalist Insurgent groups, on the other hand, continued to sabotage economic infrastructure, mostly gas pipelines. According to the SATP database, 2011 recorded at least 52 incidents of attack on gas infrastructure, as against just three in 2010. At least 170 such incidents have been recorded since January 1, 2005. Significantly, the insurgents involved in these attacks focus on targeting the economic interests of the Provincial and Federal Governments, rather than causing loss of life. Of the 711 fatalities recorded in the Province in 2011, Baloch insurgents are confirmed to have been involved in the killing of 69 civilians and 43 SF personnel. The material losses inflicted by the Baloch insurgents, however, are very substantial. The Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) Balochistan General Manager Mohammad Haroon had noted, on February 14, 2011, “Last year [2010], the SSGC suffered a loss of over PKR 100 million due to targeted attacks on gas pipelines. The company has suffered an equivalent loss this year [2011] too, as attacks have picked up.”
Meanwhile, the Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan (initiation of the rights of Balochistan) package which was approved by the Parliament on November 23, 2009, acknowledging the widespread deprivation and neglect that prevailed in Balochistan, failed to deliver. The package, included six constitutional, five political, 16 administrative and 34 economic proposals, and set a three-years implementation period. It has, however, so far succeeded in ‘delivering’ just 34 of the 61 proposals – though even for these the actual benefits accruing to the people are questionable. The Federal and Provincial Governments are, moreover, yet to initiate several mega-projects that are part of the reforms package.
Another ground for resentment is the Government’s policy of compensation to victims of violence. On June 28, 2011, the Supreme Court was informed that PKR 400,000 was being paid by the Balochistan Government as compensation to heirs of common citizens who fell victim to bomb blasts, target killings or sectarian violence, compared to PKR two million paid to the heirs of deceased SF personnel. The Court, expectedly, asked the Federal and Provincial Governments to consider removing the discrepancy by enhancing, to a reasonable level, the amount of compensation for common citizens arguing, “Is a common citizen a lesser species?”
Islamabad has sought to pacify the Baloch by offering peace talks with the nationalist rebels. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, on June 5, 2011, stated that the Government was ready for ‘political dialogue’ with estranged Baloch leaders, in the larger national interest. Again, on October 11, 2011, he declared that the Government wanted reconciliation and remained prepared to hold talks with “dissident Baloch brethren” to find an amicable solution to the issues of Balochistan. The Baloch, however, appear to have lost faith in the establishment. Balochistan BNP-M chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal, on July 15, 2011, had noted that the Government was neither strong enough nor serious enough to resolve the Balochistan issue. He added, further, that announcements of packages, and the formation of jirgas and committees, were aimed at deceiving the Baloch people.
Islamabad’s policy of encouraging Islamist extremists, while using brute force against those demanding genuine rights and redressal of long standing grievances, can only lead to a continuing blood bath in the resource rich Province, creating more trouble for the increasingly crippled national economy. Peace can only remain elusive in Balochistan as long as Islamabad’s duplicity persists.
(The writer Tushar Ranjan Mohanty is Research Associate, Institute for Conflict Management)
(The view expressed in the article is of the author and not India Blooms News Service)
http://www.washingtonbanglaradio.com/content/13957212-balochistan-achilles-heel
Balochistan: parliament, SC and the ‘other’ —Dr Qaisar Rashid
Is it a Nazi fascist state in the guise of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan? Does Islam sanctify the practice of forced disappearances and then extrajudicial killings and dumping of dead bodies along the roads? Apparently, the collective conscience of Pakistanis is dead
History is the best instrument of indoctrination. Can anyone count the number of years required to heal the wounds of the atrocities inflicted on the Baloch by the state’s security apparatus? The Balochistan of today is tormented with all types of inhuman affliction ranging from forced abductions to forsaken dead bodies (bearing the marks of torture of all kinds). Is Balochistan considered an enemy territory? Even an enemy is not dealt with like that. The ruse of ‘national security’ has ravaged Pakistan; the artifice itself is a gigantic menace to the federal concord.
It was Muhammad Ali Jinnah who remained worried about the backwardness and aloofness of Balochistan. Before 1930, he started pleading for the introduction of reforms (such as formation of a legislative council) in Balochistan — to give it a semblance of a province. Did he do all that effort to make the Baloch susceptible to the homicide being committed today? Secondly, who tasked the security apparatus with creating a (consequent) rancorous Baloch generation? In fact, it was a failure of the federation in undertaking development work in Balochistan after 1947 or even after July 1970 when Balochistan attained the formal status of a province. The development of Gwadar Port does not represent the development of Balochistan.
Why should the Baloch not raise a voice for their rights? The state apparatus should not have tried to muffle their voice; it is not meant for that. Now, each abduction or dead body prejudices the chances of appeasing the Baloch. The Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan package introduced by the incumbent elected government has been denigrated. With each passing day, hopes for resolution are vanishing. Is anybody listening?
Why should anybody (who matters) listen? The prime objective of the sitting government is to complete its term by circumventing issues that may prompt a direct conflict with the state’s security apparatus. Parliament is giving the impression of following a strategy of abandoning the Baloch to the mercy of the state’s security apparatus. Parliament should declare if it has excluded the Baloch from the list of bona fide Pakistanis. If it has not, why is it observing criminal silence on their plight and grievances?
The Supreme Court is already encumbered with deciding on one scandal or another. Ironically, the so-called ‘national security’ suffered an existential threat from a memo but not from the continual disappearances of the Baloch and appearance of their dead bodies subsequently. On the scandal, both the army chief and DG ISI were heard at the Supreme Court but why the wails and screams of the Baloch are not heard there? The Baloch are pointing the finger at the state’s security apparatus. Why is this matter not probed? Why can the Supreme Court not ask them what role their institutions are playing in Balochistan? Certainly, the cost of this indifference is being paid by the Baloch.
The murder of Dr Baqir Shah, a police surgeon, has added fuel to the fire of grievances. In May 2011, Dr Baqir Shah was assigned the task of finding out what killed the five foreigners: a blast or bullets? If he had said ‘blast’, probably he would have been allowed to survive unscathed. By telling the truth that the bullets of the police and the Frontier Corps (FC) killed the unarmed men and women at Kharotabad, he signed his own death warrant. Dr Baqir Shah is dead now. Against those five dead bodies, his body was pierced with bullets. Dr Baqir’s crime was to call a spade a spade. Is anybody ready to take pride in the name of a state where truth is the victim? Pakistanis should not let his message of courage and speaking truth (against all odds) die. He should be honoured posthumously with the highest civil award.
In which part of the world is the state’s security apparatus alleged to have been involved in the forced abductions and killings of its citizens? Is it a Nazi fascist state in the guise of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan? Does Islam sanctify the practice of forced disappearances and then extrajudicial killings and dumping of dead bodies along the roads? Is it a barbarian age Pakistan is passing through? Apparently, the collective conscience of Pakistanis is dead.
Why can the federation not speak to the Baloch youth who have taken refuge in the mountains? Reportedly, most of them are educated. If the DG ISI can secretly visit a foreign country to meet a foreign national to gather information on an unsigned memo, why can the DG ISI not meet Baloch dissidents (or nationalists) and negotiate with them — in the best interests of the state? The DG ISI, like the army chief, is a government servant who is not supposed to be ego-driven. Secondly, the state’s security apparatus must be aware of the fact that the tax collected from the revenue that accrues from selling the resources of Balochistan is converted into their salaries; the same tax also feeds the expenditure incurred on the upkeep of their weapons. The security apparatus must feel grateful to the Baloch and serve them as humble government servants.
Even the ego of the state cannot be considered supreme. Instead, the ego of a common Pakistani is supreme. It was the democratic will of the people expressed in electoral terms in the 1945-46 elections that led to the emergence of Pakistan. Pakistan is not a conquered territory. It is a shared property of the people, common Pakistanis. Hence, it is the citizen first and the state later.
Balochistan is under virtual siege. Balochistan needs to be demilitarised. In Balochistan, civilians should be empowered to run the provincial affairs. Balochistan should be given all opportunities to translate its part of provincial autonomy (which is enshrined in the 18th Amendment) into action. Lastly, the state should make arrangements to speak to the Baloch dissidents.
The writer is a freelance columnist. He can be reached at [email protected]
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012%5C01%5C04%5Cstory_4-1-2012_pg3_4
Long live Sardar Mengal
Sardar Attaullah Mengal’s Exclusive Interview with BBC Urdu.
His message to Baloch separatists: Will you be able to achieve freedom at all? Even if you achieve it, will you be able to retain and enjoy that freedom?
یہ بدقسمتی ہے مگر حقیقت ہے جو میں چھپانا نہیں چاہتا کہ ہمارے بیچ وہ رابطہ نہیں رہا اور جدائیاں آگئی ہیں اور میں سمجھتا ہوں ہمارا اس طرح سے ایک دوسرے سے علیحدہ ہونا نہ بلوچستان کے حق میں جاےگا اور نہ بلوچستان کے لوگوں کے حق میں جاےگا۔ – بلوچ قوم پرست رہنما عطااللہ مینگل
http://youtu.be/7644DDRI1E0
Europe News – Balochistan will not remain with Pakistan: Mengal
January 02: Resource rich but socio-economically deprived Balochistan province of Pakistan has been pushed to a “point of no return”. As atrocities by Pakistani forces continue unabated, the Baloch political leaders say that Balochistan will no longer remain with Pakistan. Veteran Baloch nationalist leader Sardar Ataullah Khan Mengal, who held a meeting with Nawaz Sharif, the chief of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz in Karachi said that Baloch youth don’t want a Pakistan in which they receive mutilated bodies of their compatriots. Mengal said the province refuses to be part of Pakistan until atrocities against the Baloch people are stopped.
http://youtu.be/hXc5ah1bNpQ
Sardar Attaullah Mengal’s Exclusive Interview with Dawn News
http://youtu.be/5wsvtFXlk88
December 10, 2011
HRCP expresses solidarity with Balochistan people
LAHORE: On International Human Rights Day today (Saturday), the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon every citizen to join the people of Balochistan in their struggle for the realisation of their rights and to urge the government to make vigorous efforts to ensure respect for the rights of the people in the long suffering province.
In a statement issued on Friday, the commission said, “This year HRCP is commemorating December 10, the International Human Rights Day, in solidarity with the people of Balochistan in support of their aspirations to realise their rights. This is because we believe that the human rights situation facing the people in Balochistan, irrespective of their ethnic, religious or sectarian identity, is an issue of foremost concern in the country today. The HRCP reiterates its grave distress at the absence of adequate measures to resolve lingering issues of human rights violations. It is a matter of grave alarm that 107 new cases of enforced disappearance have been reported in Balochistan in 2011, and the ‘missing persons’ are increasingly turning up dead. Bodies of 225 ‘missing persons’ have been recovered from various parts of the province since July 2010. It is scandalous that not a single person has been held accountable for these disappearances and killings. The situation is particularly grave for non-Muslims and minority Muslim sects. As many as 80 members of the Shia Hazara community have been killed in the province this year alone, for no reason other than their religious belief. The HRCP also has serious concern at targeted killing of teachers, intellectuals and non-Baloch ‘settlers’ in Balochistan and calls upon all political elements in the province and beyond to unequivocally condemn these killings and play their role in ending such callous acts of violence.
The precarious situation in Balochistan has been further compounded by targeting of human rights defenders in the province by the various parties to the simmering conflict, making access to reliable information on the human rights situation all the more difficult. The murder of two HRCP activists and three journalists in the province in 2011 signifies the dangers that those highlighting human rights violations face on a daily basis. pr
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011%5C12%5C10%5Cstory_10-12-2011_pg7_15
MirSohaib Sohaib Mengal Baloch
At least 5 people shown in the @AJEnglish documentary, Pakistan’s other war in #Balochistan, were viciously killed and dumped.
4 Jan
BalaachMarri TheBaloch
Remember the young guy speaking to @AJEnglish journalist in the documentary? Well here’s what Pakistani army did to him http://twitpic.com/833vw5
Baloch ‘separatism’ is nothing but a geopolitical PONZI SCHEME that the media outlets are now fanning and over-hyping.
no mention of tribal-political divisions within the Baloch separatists. BLA belongs to Hyrbayar Marri, BRA to Brahamdagh Bugti, BLF to “Dr” Allah Nazar Baloch, and BNF to the Mengals. They HATE each other! Too many cooks spoil the broth.
no mention of Brahamdagh Bugti being a frequent guest at the NATO-ISAF HQ in Kabul many times in the past as well as travelling around the world on an INDIAN passport and lives a life of luxury now in Switzerland.
Hyrbyar Marri talks about “baloch deprivation” yet he drives a Bentley and Rolls Royce car whilst living in asylum in London.
no mention of the genocide of “settlers” that mimmicks the pain of the Biharis of former East Pakistan
no mention of actual fact that Balaach Marri was killed in 2007, not by Pak Army as these ‘separatists’ cry, but by a NATO-ISAF attack on his convoy that was illegally crossing the Nushki border area on the Durand Line.
no mention that Baloch are NOT the majority in Balochistan, and that the Pashtuns of northern parts have ALWAYS been equal or outnumbered them historically
no mention that the State of Kalat acceded to Pakistan because the Khan of Kalat himself described it in his book as an “article of faith”, no mention that Khan of Kalat did NOT oppose joining Pakistan, but his brother and cousin (people with NO AUTHORITY in Kalat) decided to make a rebellion.
no mention that Kalat State is merely 20% of modern Balochistan and had delayed its accession for nearly a year AFTER the states of Bela, Kharan, Makran as well as British Baluchistan province had acceded to Pakistan willingly in 1947.
also, no mention that Dera Bugti district (population of barely 150,000) faces daily violence and deaths not at the hands of ISI/FC but by landmines planted by BRA/BLA that kill innocent people on a daily basis!
no mention that BLA killed a Balochistan High Court judge Justice Nawaz Marri in Quetta in 2006 a few days before he was going to take an oath to become BHC Chief Justice, but they demand the Pakistani Chief Justice take “suo moto” action on the hyper-inflated ‘missing persons’ list.
no mention that Justice Nawaz Marri’s killer Abdul Ghani Bangalzai was then RELEASED in 2008-09 by PPP to appease Baloch nationalists despite tremendous evidence against him, much to the anger of Justice Marri’s family!
no mention of the ground realities of Balochistan!!!
Fun Fact:
In 1947, The Nawab of Kharan State, Nawab Habibullah Khan Nausherwani, became the first Baloch ruler to formally accede to Pakistan.
Nawab Habibullah Khan Nausherwani was so determined to join Pakistan, that when he met Quaid-e-Azam he introduced himself as ‘Nawab Habibullah Khan PAKISTANI’ that caused Quaid to stand up and applaud him in respect and admiration!
Jam of Bela, Nawab of Makuran, and British Baluchistan also formally acceded to Pakistan.
Only the Khan of Kalat delayed for almost a year, and Kalat State made up only 20% of Balochistan by area!
Khan Abdul Karim Khan was COUSIN of Khan of Kalat who did not want to join Pakistan. Tough luck kid.
Jee Tara Pakistan!
Beebrag u have got the info men with realitivity and proofs good job … actully a human mind always want to join struggle he doesn’t know where that struggle will take him
Long Life to Afghanistan!
Heay Dirty Pakistan’s Government!
Once again we will have our original territories as before. Death to the ISI! Death to Jenah! you are the CIA and Braitain spy government. Because you kill muslims either to this side Afghanistan or that side Pakistan. You are those who foster terrorism all over the world. Leave the people to live in safe! You are not the God (Naozubillah) to determine the fate of the God’s servants! Heay! be aware that you will be responsible to God on the day of judgement for all yours filthy doings. But, I strongly doubt to be muslims and believe on God rather than this to believe on CIA and Bratain. Instead of this to play a leading rule in the Muslim world to unify those weak muslim countries, but you threat them with death! Shame on you! you are the real Satan. Wake up and get rid your self from this slavary chains. You bad famed Islam to the non-muslim world by your bad and Satanic schemes and plans. You will not be a good commarade to the CIA or Bratain rather than this to play on you and implement their plans by you and you are happy to owe Billions of Dollars in this exchange. Oh,Oh,Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,,,!!!
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