Baluchistan: The Story of Another Pakistan Military Genocide

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The Baloch / Balochi / Baluchi people strike a blow for freedom. A symbol of the occupation of Balochistan / Baluchistan by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan namely the former residence of the late M.A. Jinnah who founded the Islamic Republic, is burnt to the ground.

Balochistan banega azad :

Jinnah’s Residency burnt to ashes
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Attack on Djinnah residence is an attack on the TSP soverignity.

Also I would like a 15-20 sildes presentation on Balochistan from Indian point of view.

Any volunteers?
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Article in The News provides a listing of the violence in Balochistan.

Balochistan, Gilgit suffered 140 attacks in 10 years
Year 2003:

June 8: Some 11 police trainees, hailing from the Hazara Shia sect, were shot dead in a sectarian attack at Quetta’s Sariab Road.

July 4: Nearly 50 people were killed in another attack on a Shia mosque in Quetta.

Year 2004:

March 2: Nearly 45 people were killed when a procession of the Shia Muslims was attacked at Quetta’s Liaquat Bazaar.

May 3: A car bomb in Gwadar had killed three Chinese engineers.

August 2: The then Chief Minister of Balochistan, Jam Yousaf, escaped attempt on life when his convoy was attacked.

August 31: Three persons were killed in a bomb blast in Kalat.

December 10: At least 10 people were killed in a bomb explosion at a Quetta market. The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the explosion.

Year 2005:

January 8: At least 10 people were killed in Gilgit’s sectarian violence.

March 19: Over 35 people were killed when a terrorist exploded himself in a mixed crowd of Shia and Deobandi devotees at the shrine of Pir Rakhel Shah in Jhal Magsi which is a district town of the province.

October 13: A large number of people were killed in clashes between the Rangers and civilians in Gilgit, despite curfew.

Year 2006:

January 25: At least six people were killed after a bus collided with a landmine in Dera Bugti.

February 5: A bomb explosion on a Lahore-bound bus from Quetta, killed 13 persons in Bolan District.

March 10: Some 30 people were killed in Dera Bugti, after their bus hit a landmine.

June 12: At least five people were killed in a bomb attack targeting a Quetta hotel.

August 26: Nawab Akbar Bugti was killed in a battle between tribal militants and government forces in Balochistan. At least five soldiers and at least 30 rebels are believed to have died too.

August 26-31: Akbar Bugti’s killing sparked rioting, which left many people dead in just five days. Scores were injured and arrested.

September 8: At least six people were killed when a powerful bomb blast had hit the Rakhni bazaar of Barkhan District.

Year 2007:

February 17: A suicide bomber killed 15 persons—including a judge— after blowing himself up inside a Quetta court.

June 8: Three people were killed when a bomb exploded on a Karachi-bound bus in Hub.

July 19: Some 26 people died in Hub, Lasbela District, in an attack apparently targeting the Chinese workers.

July 27: Raziq Bugti, a former guerrilla commander-turned-spokesman for the Balochistan government, was shot dead in Quetta.

October 20: At least eight people were killed when a powerful bomb planted in a vehicle exploded in Dera Bugti.

December 13: Two suicide bombings near an army check post in Quetta had killed seven people, including three Pakistan Army personnel.

Year 2008:

October 19: The Republic Army claimed responsibility for a remote-controlled bomb blast in Dera Bugti, which killed three.

October 27: Two persons were killed in a bomb blast near the Quetta District Court Complex.

Year 2009:

January 26: Hussain Ali Yousafi, chairman of the Hazara Democratic Party, was allegedly shot dead by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in Quetta.

March 2: A suicide bomber killed five people at a girls’ religious school in Pishin District.

June 11: One person was killed when a bomb hidden in a toilet exploded in a Quetta train.

August 4: Separatists shot dead four policemen and threatened to execute 21 hostages, if Pakistan did not withdraw paramilitary troops and released their detainees.

August 9: Militants killed four cops and threatened to kill more than 12 hostages, if their comrades in police custody were not released.

August 13: Rockets were fired at a police vehicle outside Quetta, killing two cops.

October 25: The Punjab-born Balochistan Education Minister and a local PPP stalwart Shafiq Ahmed Khan was shot dead in Quetta.

November 17: At least one person was killed and five others injured, including Deputy Inspector General Nizam Shahid Durrani, in a Quetta blast.

December 7: In Quetta, 10 people were injured when a bomb had exploded in a residential area for government employees.

Year 2010:

March 21: At least 3 people were killed after a bicycle bomb exploded in Quetta.

April 16: At least 10 people were killed after a suicide bomber had struck a Quetta hospital.

April 25: A bomb exploded at a confectionery shop in Quetta, injuring a dozen people.

April 27: A woman teacher was killed in Quetta.

May 1: A remote-controlled bomb attack wounded six police personnel at Quetta’s Qambrani Road.

May 25: Two people were killed in a bomb blast that had occurred near the office of the National Highway Authority in Quetta.

May 28: Four police officers were killed in Quetta, after they were attacked by militants.

June 10: In Khuzdar district, a soldier was killed as militants opened fire on paramilitary troops.

June 30: At least two policemen were killed in Mastung district, after unidentified militants opened fire at a vehicle carrying security forces. In a separate incident, one man was injured in a bomb explosion at Quetta’s Fatima Jinnah Road.

July 12: Gunmen opened fire upon the vehicle of Mulla Baksh Dasti, the leader of the National Party and the former district mayor of Turbat, killing him on the spot and injuring his driver.

July 14: Unidentified gunmen had assassinated Habib Jalib, a former senator and nationalist leader of the Balochistan National Party in Quetta.

August 14:- At least 10 people were killed in a series of militant attacks within Balochistan.

August 20: Militants torched two NATO trucks in Balochistan.

August 25: Unidentified gunmen killed a former lawmaker in Quetta.

August 31: Unidentified militants set ablaze two NATO fuel tankers in Mastung and Khuzdar.

September 1: At least 75 people were killed in a suspected suicide bombing upon a Shia rally at Quetta’s Meezan Chowk.

September 4: At least 2 people were again killed in a terror attack in Balochistan.

September 5: Unidentified militants set ablaze three NATO oil tankers in Balochistan.

September 8: At least 3 people were killed in a bomb explosion in Hub.

September 10: At least 5 people were killed, after a suicide car bomb attack had targeted the Quetta home of the then Balochistan provincial finance minister, Asim Ali Kurd.

September 23: Four NATO oil tankers carrying fuel supplies were set on fire in Balochistan.

September 25: Unidentified militants torched three more NATO containers within the Kalat district.

September 26:- A truck driver was killed as four NATO oil tankers were again torched in Kalat.

October 6: Another truck driver was killed as 20 NATO oil tankers were set ablaze in Quetta.

October 9: Some 30 more NATO oil tankers were set on fire throughout Balochistan.

October 18: Several NATO trucks were destroyed in Quetta.

October 19: Two more NATO trucks were targeted in the town of Dasht Bado.

October 24: Two more NATO containers were intercepted and torched by militants in Balochistan.

November 30: The convoy of the then Balochistan Governor, Nawab Zulfiqar Magsi, was attacked in the Mungichar area. Magsi had escaped unhurt.

December 7: At least two people were killed in Quetta, after a suicide bomber had unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate the then Blaochistan Chief Minister, Nawab Aslam Khan Raisani.

Year 2011:

April 26: In Quetta, four men riding motorcycles opened fire on a bus full of passengers, then sprinkled petrol on it and had set it on fire, roasting everyone inside.

May 18: Terrorists had attacked a vehicle bringing members of the Hazara community to Quetta, killing seven.

August 29: At least three people were killed in a rocket attack on a passenger train near Mach Town, some 60 kilometers of Quetta.

August 31: A dozen Shia Muslim worshippers were killed in Quetta following a bombing outside a mosque on the day of Eid ul-Fitr.

September 7: Twin explosions in Quetta had left at least 26 people dead.

September 20: At least 26 people were killed when armed militants had attacked a bus in Mastung. The victims were Shia pilgrims who were travelling towards Taftan.

September 23: Three people were killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a van carrying passengers belonging to the Hazara Shia community.

September 28: Three people were killed when militants affiliated with the Balochistan Liberation Army opened fire on men who were conducting oil and gas exploration in Harnai District.

October 4: Unknown gunmen riding a motorbike had opened fire on a schoolteacher in Khuzdar, killing him on the spot.

October 9: Four people were killed and in various terror incidents in Quetta.

October 25: A Frontier Corps officer was killed after a landmine had exploded near Quetta. In a separate incident in Quetta, a doctor was shot and injured by unknown assailants.

November 5: A man who was planting explosives in the Hazara Town, in the suburbs of Quetta had fallen victim to his own plot when his explosives had blown up prematurely.

November 19: Two Frontier Corps personnel died when a landmine blast occurred near the town of Sui.

November 21: At least 14 soldiers of the Frontier Corps were killed when Balochistan Liberation Army militants attacked their convoy near Musa Khel town.

December 14: Two FC personnel were killed in Balochistan due to a landmine explosion.

December 29: Two assailants had opened fire on the vehicle of a police surgeon, Dr Syed Baqir Shah in Quetta. The late Dr. Shah was a key witness in the controversial Kharotabad incident. He had carried out the autopsies of five foreigners, including two women, who were shot dead by security personnel in Quetta’s suburb of Kharotabad in May 2011 and had disputed the account of law enforcement agencies.

December 30: A suicide bomber affiliated with the Balochistan Liberation Army killed 13 people in Quetta.

Year 2012:

January 4: A remote-controlled blast in Sui had killed an “Aman Force” guard.

January 7: Four people were killed in various sectarian target killing incidents in Gilgit.

January 12: The Baloch Liberation Front insurgents had ambushed a convoy of paramilitary troops near Turbat, killing 14 soldiers.

June 7: At least 15 people were killed when a remote-controlled bomb blast triggered outside a madrassa in Quetta.

June 18: A bus carrying Shias was bombed in Quetta, killing many.

June 21: A bomb explosion in a Quetta mosque killed two more people.

June 23: Gunmen on motorcycles had shot dead eight men at a laundry in Quetta.

June 28: Some 14 people were killed when a suicide attacker had targeted a bus of Hazara Shias in Quetta.

July 6: Some 18 Shia pilgrims travelling to Iran were killed in Turbat.

July 8: At least 14 people were killed by a landmine blast in Chaman.

July 12: Bullet-ridden bodies of miners, abducted on July 7 from the Soorang area, were found dumped on a roadside in the hills of Degari town.

July 13: Five persons were killed in a bomb explosion in Quetta.

July 21: Militants suspected to be allied with the Balochistan Liberation Army attacked a coast guard post in Gwadar, killing six security personnel.

August 6: A woman and her two children were killed in a blast near a house in Quetta.

August 7: A bomb had killed four cops in Quetta.

August 18: A suicide bomber had killed five in Quetta.

August 21: A blast had ripped through Sariab road near Moosa Colony in Quetta, killing two persons.

August 27: Gunmen shot dead eight people in attacks on two buses in Balochistan. Same day, three Shias were gunned down in Quetta.

August 30: Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Shia Muslim judge, along with his driver and police bodyguard in Quetta.

September 1: Unidentified gunmen shot dead seven Shias in Quetta.

September 26: Unknown gunners again shot dead three persons, including a senior official of the Geological Survey of Pakistan, in Quetta.

September 26: Mohsin Anwar Kazim, a member of the Shia community, was gunned down in Quetta.

October 8: At least 12 people were injured when a bomb exploded near Zarghoon Road in Quetta.

October 12: A dozen more perished in a bomb explosion near a restaurant on Nishtar Road in Sibi. Same day, three security personnel were killed in Dera Bugti, when their vehicle had hit a landmine.

October 16: Gunmen had shot dead four people from the Shia community again in Quetta.

October 17: Firing on a tanker on National Highway in Dera Murad Jamali had killed one man.

October 19: A bomb planted on a bicycle killed at least three paramilitary soldiers in Quetta. Same day, a Frontier Corps constable was killed when armed men attacked a check post in the restive Dera Bugti.

November 2: At least 18 persons were killed after unknown gunmen had opened fire on a bus in Khuzdar.

November 6: Agha Aftab Haider Jaffri, a prominent Shia leader, was shot dead in Quetta. Same day, four people, including three Hazara Shias, were also killed in separate shooting incidents in Quetta.

November 22: Along with Karachi and Rawalpindi, Quetta was also the target of terrorists on this day. A series of three bomb attacks in the three cities had collectively killed at least 37 people.

Year 2013:

January 1: At least three fishermen were shot dead by unidentified armed assailants in the Pasni town of Gwadar District.

January 5: Unidentified militants had opened fire and killed four passengers aboard a train (Jaffar Express) near Kohsar area of Bolan district.

January 8: Unidentified armed assailants fired indiscriminately at two tankers carrying LPG in Shiehkwasil area in Mastung District, killing three persons.

January 10: At least 105 persons were killed in two separate bomb blasts on Alamdar Road in Quetta. Many of the casualties were caused by the second blast as police and media were rushing to the scene. The bombed area is predominantly a Shia locality.

January 27: At least three members of a pro-government tribal militia were killed when insurgents attacked their camp in Tilli Mat area of Dera Bugti District.

January 28: Two personnel of the Pakistan Air Force were among the three persons killed in Pasni (Gwadar District).

January 30: Four persons were shot dead in Dera Bugti District.

January 31: At least six militants were killed in a targeted operation in the Mangochar area of Kalat District.

February 16: At least 92 people were killed after a suicide bomber had struck a busy Quetta market. Police said it was a sectarian attack and the Shia community was the target.

February 19: Four suspected militants were killed in a police operation. They were accused of killing Shias in the Hazara town incident.

February 23: At least six labourers working on the Makran Coastal Highway, which links the area to Karachi, were shot dead by unidentified assailants in the Shadi Kaur area of Gwadar District.

February 28: The Balochistan Levies recovered three dead bodies from Gazba Road area in Qilla Abdullah District.

Match 22: At least 10 people were killed when a bomb planted on a motorcycle-rickshaw exploded in a Dera Allahyar town market.

April 16: At least four people were killed, including the son, brother and nephew of Sanaullah Zehri, the provincial chief of the Pakistan Muslim League (N). A blast had targeted the convoy of the Zehris in Khuzdar district.

May 12: At least six people were killed when the residence of the Balochistan police chief was targeted in Quetta.

April 30: An independent candidate, Abdul Fateh Magsi, was shot dead along with his three supporters in Jhal Magsi area.

May 5: Four persons were killed when the convoy of Sardar Sarfaraz Khan Domki and Mir Dostain Khan Domki, the grandsons of late Nawab Bugti, came under a bomb attack in Tali area of Sibi District. They were contesting the May 11 polls and were out mustering support.

May 11: At least 15 persons were killed when unidentified assailants had attacked the convoy of an election candidate on the polling day in Naseerabad District.

May 12: Balochistan Inspector General of Police, Mushtaq Sukhera, narrowly escaped a suicide attack in the high security zone on Quetta’s Zarghoon Road. Some seven people had resultantly lost lives.

And then just two days ago, we of course saw the blowing up of Quaid-e-Azam’s Residency in Ziarat and the attack on the bus of women students of a medical college in Quetta.
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Condolences on the earthquake to all Baluch brothers affected.

Need to verify exact impact of this:
vishvak wrote:40 feet high mountain like island emerged next to Gwadar port only - so people don't have to go too far to see a miracle at doorstep! This earthquake therefore isn't YYY conspiracy and DG police can handle this. However how do people differentiate between good djinn and bad djinn? Is any djinn more powerful than a certain religious figure and how much. What if the island is symbol of some jaahil forces emerging from falsehoods like spherical earth.
A_Gupta wrote:Yes, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/2 ... n-Pakistan

Does it help render Gwadar port inoperable?
They're saying it doesn't -

http://www.pakistantv.tv/2013/09/24/sma ... Wyt5L.dpbs

Last line reads: "In an interview with Geo News, (DIG Gwadar Moazzam Jah) said that the hill-like island was about 350 feet away from Gwadar Port, and it doesn't come in the way of ships coming into or going from the harbour."
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US Congressman backs Balochistan’s right of self determination.
In a message to an event organized at the European Parliament in Brussels titled Balochistan: Destiny Denied, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, who is member of the House Judiciary Committee and member of the Crime, Terror and Homeland Security Sub-Commitee, called on the Pakistan government to “cease its authoritarian operations” in Balochistan. He said, “Americans empathize with Balochistan’s call for self-determination.”
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Tarek Fatah in the Toronto Sun:

Balochistan needs the world’s help
When a natural calamity strikes, often within hours the tragedy triggers a worldwide aid effort to search for survivors trapped under the debris and to house and feed the victims.

Unfortunately, there was no such luck for the hundreds of thousands who survived a massive earthquake that struck Pakistan’s mineral-rich, yet dirt-poor region of Balochistan on September 25.

Instead, the Pakistani military shut out international aid agencies, taking advantage of the crisis to launch an offensive against Baloch nationalists fighting for independence from Pakistan’s occupation.

...

“The Pakistan Army has forced the entire population of 8,000 people from my village ... to move into the mountains. Our homes are being destroyed and we are living without food and shelter … please ask someone to help us.”

...

Mehran Marri, the special representative of Balochistan to the United Nations Human Rights Council, also addressed the dire conditions in his homeland. Marri, who has lived most of his adult life in exile, raised the issue of Pakistan’s nuclear threat, claiming its nukes and missiles are being placed at the mouth of the Straits of Hormuz.

After the conference he told me, “If Islamabad’s nuclear program was India-focussed, then why are they building ICBMs that can hit targets 7,000 km away? The furthest Indian city from Pakistan is no more than 1,000 km, yet this fact seems to be not making its mark in the corridors of power in either Brussels, London or Washington DC,” he said.

“And guess where are they testing and placing their long-range missiles?” he asked rhetorically. “Balochistan,” he replied to his own question.
So Baluch are a casualty of Pakistan's sepoy services to ...whom exactly?
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this is a template for killing civil insurgency in any part, kill of all the youth between 18 and 40 on pretext of taking them in for questioning and on pretext that they have displayed suspicious behaviour, what they are practicing is genocide. The template has been borrowed from how Govt of India solved the militancy in Punjab. Same pattern of human rights violations are now seen in Balochistan, the reason I mention this fact is because pakistanis can easily take the pretext of torn shirt open fly, and point out how Indians have done before. What is happening in Balochistan is nothing short of genocide on an entire population of a pretty big province. Now compounding the problem is that unlike the rebels in Punjab who fled to US/Canada/Europe etc, these people have no border to cross. They cross into Iran & Afghanistan, the theocratic state of Iran will not accept non-shias and Afghanistan has no resources to support refugees. And the pakistanis are milking this situation for all that is worth.

Soon Balochistan will have no youth, only old people, some war weary, and children and women, all of whom are prone to manipulation by the rogue state of pakistan.
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No Justice for the Missing Balochs - Meena Menon, The Hindu
For Sammi (16), it was not the gruelling 27- day march from Quetta to Karachi that was a problem. “It was nothing compared to the torture my family and I have gone through in the last four years since my father went missing,” she said.

Sammi is one of the 12 women who walked for 27 days, covering a distance of 700 km, to protest against the treatment meted out to their male family members. “If there is another long march I will walk again. They picked up my father from a hospital in Mashkay at 1 am. We don’t know anything about him after that,” she said, speaking over the phone from Karachi.

Many of the 18,000 missing persons from the province could be dead, said Qadir Baloch, founder of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, adding that people are picked up by security agencies and they don’t come back for ten years, sometimes they never do and their bodies are dumped here and there with slips of paper in their pockets.

His son Jalil (30), a political worker with the Baloch Republican Party, was picked up. Three years later, his body was found in a village bordering Iran. It was a shock Mr. Baloch had to overcame to set up the organisation.

Such incidents made the Supreme Court take cognizance of the matter. As a result, an ongoing case demands accountability from the security agencies. Recently the apex court while directing the inspector general Frontier Corps (FC) to appear in court, said that there was credible evidence to establish that the FC was behind enforced disappearances in Balochistan. It has also been asking for the missing men to be produced in court, something which the government has promised. Mr. Baloch is not very optimistic about these orders. He said they have been issued in the past but nothing had come of it.

He has painstakingly prepared a list of 18,000 missing persons from the province since 2001. A list of 14,000 missing people was even submitted to the Supreme Court. He has records of 1500 bodies which were dumped.

“It’s a daily record and we have all the details of names, ages, places where the person was picked up from and if he returned at all. Most of those missing are young men, but there were some children and 170 women,” he said. The bodies are found dumped in Balochistan and even in Karachi.

According to a report of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) fact finding mission titled “Hopes Fears and Alienation in Balochistan” of 2012, Balochistan is Pakistan’s most troubled province.
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Please x-post here also.

Thanks.
Dilbu wrote:Balochistan unrest: Tortured body of child found in Turbat
QUETTA: The tortured and bullet-riddled body of a 10-year-old :evil: has been found in Turbat district of Balochistan on Sunday. Chakar Baloch, a student in the third grade, went missing on January 7 from main Turbat bazaar, according to local police.
“He was tortured before he was shot in the head and chest,” said an official at the Kech District Headquarters Hospital, adding that the boy was not sexually assaulted. “He was shot four times at point blank range.” A levies official said a shepherd spotted the body near the Kech Kor River and informed the police.
“The victim’s elder brother is said to be a campaigner for the Baloch separatist movement,” sources said.

A Baloch Student Organisation Azad spokesperson condemned the incident and accused security agencies of the incident. Security agencies have denied charges of involvement in any illegal detention or dumping of bodies.

and
Peregrine wrote:Separatist literature, maps recovered by FC in Turbat raid
QUETTA : A large quantity of anti-Pakistan literature as well as maps of a separate Balochistan were recovered during a raid of Attashad Degree College in Turbat district of Balochistan, Express News reported on Monday.

A Baloch student had reportedly taken over a hostel in the college and a Frontier Corps (FC) spokesperson claims he was brainwashing students to conduct acts of terrorism in the country.

The recovered material included separatist leaflets, banners and posters. The books include Nehru and Gandhi’s biographies as well as books about Baloch separation. The books were printed in Karachi and neighbouring countries.
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habal wrote:this is a template for killing civil insurgency in any part, kill of all the youth between 18 and 40 on pretext of taking them in for questioning and on pretext that they have displayed suspicious behaviour, what they are practicing is genocide. The template has been borrowed from how Govt of India solved the militancy in Punjab. Same pattern of human rights violations are now seen in Balochistan, the reason I mention this fact is because pakistanis can easily take the pretext of torn shirt open fly, and point out how Indians have done before. What is happening in Balochistan is nothing short of genocide on an entire population of a pretty big province. Now compounding the problem is that unlike the rebels in Punjab who fled to US/Canada/Europe etc, these people have no border to cross. They cross into Iran & Afghanistan, the theocratic state of Iran will not accept non-shias and Afghanistan has no resources to support refugees. And the pakistanis are milking this situation for all that is worth.

Soon Balochistan will have no youth, only old people, some war weary, and children and women, all of whom are prone to manipulation by the rogue state of pakistan.
WTF? Mods, do the needful to that and this post.
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Deracination shows up in weird ways!
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paki coastguards captured by BLA. Note how the captured coastguard personnel volunteer information.
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The Line Of Freedom - Pakistan's Secret Dirty War in Balochistan

A docu-drama. A must watch. Dedicated to the missing in Balochistan.
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A blow for freedom from occupation by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is struck by Baloch / Balochi / Baluchi freedom fighters. Gas pipeline built to steal Baloch natural gas by the Islamic Republic’s Punjab Province is blowup by freedom fighters:

BRA Freedom Fighters blow up three gas pipelines near Rahim Yar Khan

I do hope that our Government will substantially increase the diplomatic and moral support given for Balochistan’s freedom struggle and also absorb the lesson every time there is an itch to import natural gas via a pipeline passing through the Islamic Republic of Pakistan that gas piplines in the Islamic Republic are very vulnerable even when the Pakistani's are inclined to ensuring their security.
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Line of Freedom Documentary
[youtube]nssLGxZjl6c#t=152[/youtube]
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Pee-Pee & See article. Balochistan: The untold story of Pakistan's other war. Where is the outrage and condemnation from international observers?
The fifth Baloch insurgency against the Pakistan state began in 2003
there has been little interest in a dialogue that could end the longest civil war in Pakistan's history
On 17 January, 13 bodies were discovered from a mass grave in the village of Tutak near Khuzdar in Balochistan province
men who had disappeared four months earlier
there are more bodies waiting to be found
The Frontier Corps, the anti-Shia group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and other groups are all enmeshed in a decade-long campaign of "pick up and dump" in which Baloch nationalists
Nobody even knows how many people have have disappeared - the figures are between hundreds and several thousand
So many journalists have been killed in Balochistan that there are few honest reports from the province in the national print or electronic media because journalists are too scared
Every disappeared Baloch leads to many more youngsters taking up arms
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http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/interview/if-there-is-a-referendum-in-balochistan-people-will-vote-for-independence/article5767487.ece?homepage=true
Interview with Qadeer Baloch, founder of the ‘Voice for Baloch Missing Persons’
At 72, Qadeer Baloch or “Mama” Baloch walks the talk. After covering 3,300 km from Quetta, a journey that began on October 27, 2013, he and his fellow marchers reached Islamabad on February 28, with a long stop in Karachi. Walking the last part of his journey to Islamabad, Mr. Baloch told Meena Menon that his greatest wish was to visit India. Two years ago, when a United Nations team visited Quetta, he demanded an audience with them. Mr. Qadeer’s son, Jalil was picked up by security agencies in Quetta in 2009 and his body was found three years later on the border with Iran. That decided things for him. He founded the “Voice for Baloch Missing Persons” in 2009. He has campaigned against extra judicial killings and illegal detentions and filed two cases in the Supreme Court, but to no avail. This march to the capital is his last stand for justice from a world body since he has no faith in the government. Excerpts from an interview:

Why did you decide to have a Long March to Islamabad? And what do you hope to achieve?

When I founded the “Voice for Baloch Missing Persons” in 2009, a lot of young men and women had already gone missing. I felt that unless there is a platform for the families, no one would pay any attention to them. All the members of this organisation are related to the missing persons. The case for missing persons began in 1947 when Balochistan was forced to join Pakistan after it was freed from the Kalat state. Since then, we have been fighting the state and this brutal repression is the state response to our struggle. I used to work in a bank and I retired in 2009. My son, Jalil Reki was picked up because he was the Baloch Republican Party (BRP)’s central information secretary. I know it’s the intelligence agencies who did this because they called and told someone who was with him at that time. Three years later we found his body. Today, my grandson is marching with me because he also wants justice. So far, we have documented 19,200 missing people and recovered 2,006 bodies. The numbers increase every day.

How did you mobilise resources for your organisation and what has been the response?

People are calling me a RAW [Research & Analysis Wing] agent and they think I get money from some agency. I don’t know this RAW and I have not seen or met anyone from there. I don’t need funds — there are over 19,000 missing people and their families contribute to the organisation and we also raise contributions.

You have filed cases in the Supreme Court? What is the progress so far?

Yes, we filed two cases on missing persons in 2012 and there have been 102 hearings so far. We had asked for the missing persons to be produced in court. We contended that if people have done something wrong you have to punish them, not take them away or detain them and kill them. The situation in these detention centres is terrible. People cannot even stretch their legs, the rooms are tiny and they are blindfolded. In some of the bodies we recovered, we found holes drilled in the legs. We get a lot of bodies with the vital organs removed.

There are women too who are missing.

Yes, there are women from the Marri and Bugti tribes who are missing. Women are taken away by agencies so that pressure can be put on their families to make sure their sons don’t join the various Baloch groups. We have documented cases of 170 women. Sometimes their children too are taken away. There is the case of Zarina, a schoolteacher, who was picked up in 2005 and her son, Murad was a year old then. How can a child survive without the mother?

Why is there no accountability for all these actions despite the Supreme Court case?

It is the Pakistan state agencies which are doing all this. Balochistan was independent and we were forced to join Pakistan. Now, we want freedom from the Army. We waited for five years for justice but nothing happened. The United Nations working group had come to Quetta two years ago and later we were invited to meet them in Islamabad. We met the United Nations country office and the European Union delegation to Pakistan and we have two demands. We want the missing persons to be recovered and we want a separate Balochistan. We want the intervention of NATO forces or international support there to help us. There is no other way out.

The Supreme Court has managed to do one thing only. That is to establish that it is the ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence], the Frontier Corps and the military intelligence which have picked up our young men and women. There are so many orders to produce the missing persons but no one does anything. The security forces defy the orders and it is no use. For instance in the case of one of the marchers, Farzana, the court had ordered her brother to be produced in court but it was not followed. There are so many cases like this. There is no accountability at all. Who inspired you to go on this march?

I had read somewhere that Mahatma Gandhiji had walked over 300 km to fight the British and they conceded to his demands. I thought if an old man like him could walk, so could I. Even Mao Tse-tung had a long march. The important thing was that Gandhiji made an impression on the British rulers. We hope that our demands too will be met after this long march which is over 3,300 kilometres. We walked for 108 days.

After I formed my organisation, I got a lot of support from people. If there is a referendum in Balochistan, people will vote for independence. We have worked with honesty and integrity. All along the way, except in the Punjab, lakhs of people supported us.

How did you mobilise young women to walk with you?

In Balochistan we observe strict purdah. Women don’t leave their homes but now people are so helpless, they have taken to the streets.

The young women with me have either lost a father or a brother. Their lives are miserable, some have left school for this march. They still hope their loved ones will be returned some day. This is our plight. There are nine girls and three children including my grandson on this march.

You faced a lot of threats and abuse during the march.

Yes, people used to stop our march, get out of the car and abuse us. There was firing on us from moving vehicles and a truck dashed against two marchers injuring them. I was also threatened on the phone to stop the march. Even in Islamabad we are not safe. Even before I was leaving I got calls every day asking me to stop the march. An intelligence official threatened me that my other son would also be killed. For me the grief of my dead son is the grief of all the families who have lost people. In Punjab, we were openly threatened. In Gujarat, police blocked our march but we persisted despite all these problems and poor physical health.

In Balochistan, the young people continue to be picked up. Recently about 32 deaths have been reported and over 30 were taken away. It doesn’t stop.
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Balochistan unrest: Senior BNP-M leader, guard gunned down in Khuzdar
KHUZDAR / QUETTA: A central leader of the Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal), Haji Athahullah Mohammedzai, and his armed guard were shot dead on Sunday in a targeted attack in Khuzdar district, about 300 kilometres from Quetta. A second guard was also injured in the attack.

Mohammedzai is the 75th BNP leader or activist to have been killed in a targeted attack in Balochistan over the last five years.A well-known politician, Mohammedzai was on his way home from work when unidentified assailants on a motorcycle opened fire at his car. He received multiple bullet wounds. The attackers fled from the scene immediately. Mohammedzai and his guards were taken to District Headquarters Hospital Khuzdar where he and one of the guards was pronounced dead. Businesses and restaurants were closed following the news of the death.
“He was a central councillor to the party,” said BNP Information Secretary Agha Hassan Baloch. “The targeted killing of Haji Athaullah is part of the continuous policy of state-backed groups to eliminate the BNP leadership.” Hassan added, “At least 75 BNP leaders and activists have been gunned down in different parts of Balochistan and not a single murder was investigated or the perpetrators brought to justice.”
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Campus violence: Private varsity students thrashed for ‘speaking Balochi’
ISLAMABAD: Three Baloch students of Preston University were allegedly targeted on the basis of ethnicity by fellow students and severely beaten up on the university campus in Sector H-8 on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the Industrial Area police have not registered a case on the complaint filed by the Baloch students due to a pending medical report. The police also claimed that the students are exaggerating the incident.
Civil society representatives and youth activists staged a protest demanding justice for the injured students on Sunday evening, claiming the university administration appeared to be trying to settle the issue without police involvement.
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Dilbu wrote:Balochistan unrest: Senior BNP-M leader, guard gunned down in Khuzdar
KHUZDAR / QUETTA: A central leader of the Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal), Haji Athahullah Mohammedzai, and his armed guard were shot dead on Sunday in a targeted attack in Khuzdar district, about 300 kilometres from Quetta. A second guard was also injured in the attack.

Mohammedzai is the 75th BNP leader or activist to have been killed in a targeted attack in Balochistan over the last five years.A well-known politician, Mohammedzai was on his way home from work when unidentified assailants on a motorcycle opened fire at his car. He received multiple bullet wounds. The attackers fled from the scene immediately. Mohammedzai and his guards were taken to District Headquarters Hospital Khuzdar where he and one of the guards was pronounced dead. Businesses and restaurants were closed following the news of the death.
“He was a central councillor to the party,” said BNP Information Secretary Agha Hassan Baloch. “The targeted killing of Haji Athaullah is part of the continuous policy of state-backed groups to eliminate the BNP leadership.” Hassan added, “At least 75 BNP leaders and activists have been gunned down in different parts of Balochistan and not a single murder was investigated or the perpetrators brought to justice.”
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Indian universitiej should offer phree doct'rate edukashun to theje balochij.
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Interview of Malik Siraj Akbar, Editor-in- Chief of the Baloch Hal , the first online English newspaper of Balochistan, which is currently banned in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Malik Siraj Akbar speaks “about the issues of press freedom, human right violations and the future of Balochistan.” :

An In-Depth Interview with Malik Siraj Akbar
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ISI joker Ahmed Quraishi tries to do a stunt at Geneva UNHCR meeting on Baluchistan and Tarek Fateh puts him in his place

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^^ Rony, worth listening to Tarek Fatah's own deposition: "Your grandchildren will not forgive you if you allow this nuclear-armed rogue state of Pakistan to get away with this. It is important to create an independent, liberal state of Balochistan not just in the interest of the Baloch, but for the future of civilization..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAitL8qjbVY

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Interview with the Khan of Kalat. The interviewer betrays her pakistaniyat.
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Speech by Zakir Majeed Baloch. Note the mention of Jiye Sindh and "Dharti Maa" in this speech.
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End of an era: Khair Bux Marri - Edit in DT
The passing away of Nawab Khair Bux Marri, Baloch nationalist leader of towering standing and chief of the Marri tribe, brings to a close an entire era of struggle under his leadership and guidance against the usurpation of the rights of the Baloch people and the repressive policies of successive regimes in Pakistan. Born in Kohlu, Marri Area on February 28, 1928, Nawab Khair Bux Marri was educated at Aitchison College Lahore. It was perhaps inevitable, given the fierce independence exhibited by the Marri tribe under British colonialism as well as after Pakistan came into being that history would place him at the head of Baloch nationalist aspirations and impose on his broad shoulders the task of leading his people from their benighted state to freedom.

Balochistan has had a tragic history since Pakistan came into being. Arguing its case for special treaty status under British rule, the Baloch opted for independence in 1947, but the province was soon subsumed into Pakistan after the Khan of Kalat, the head of the tribal confederacy of Balochistan, was forced to sign an accession document in 1948. Since then, Balochistan’s history has been full of armed resistance and repression, littered along the way with broken promises and betrayals by successive regimes. The current nationalist insurgency in the province is the fifth since Pakistan came into being. Since the state refused to accommodate the demands of the Baloch for rights and control over their own resources, rebellion became the leitmotif of Baloch nationalists, a position that continues to date. Nawab Khair Bux Marri remained a towering, charismatic leader throughout his adult life, suffering repeated imprisonment and harassment, including a treason trial in the Hyderabad Conspiracy Case in the 1970s. Imprisoned by Bhutto and released by his nemesis General Ziaul Haq, Marri chose self-imposed exile in Afghanistan after his release and only returned to Pakistan after the Najib government fell and the Mujahideen took over Kabul in 1992. Since then, until his arrest once more in a trumped up case of murder in 2001, a case that eventually led nowhere and from which he was released after 18 months of incarceration, Marri had been living a relatively quiet life, away from the turmoil of his past. However, the outbreak of the current nationalist insurgency in 2002 inevitably put him squarely back in the limelight, irrespective of his ill health causing his absence from active politics.

The current nationalist insurgency spawned a range of groups that seem to have little or no coordination amongst them. This has been the curse of the Baloch nationalist cause throughout its history: its inability to unite under one leadership. With Nawab Khair Bux Marri’s passing away, the Baloch cause has lost its most respected and influential leader. The aftermath of his going is likely to play out in maintaining, if not deepening the divide amongst the nationalist groups active in the mountains and in self-imposed exile. The Balochistan case has suffered from the sheer lack of weight of Baloch voices in the federation, leading frustrated youth to resort to armed resistance again and again. This is a pattern yet to be overcome, the missing factor being the state’s incapacity so far to see the Baloch question as a political problem of long standing that needs a political approach to resolve their ageless grievances rather than a hardline repressive one. The latter has been tried repeatedly in the past 67 years and has failed to produce anything positive. If anything, it has merely deepened the alienation of the Baloch people. It is a sad comment to make that the passing away of Nawab Khair Bux Marri may have made that political solution even more difficult, given the likelihood that the historical disunity of the Baloch, which has weakened their voice, is likely to be exacerbated in the absence of the formidable presence of the pride of Balochistan and one of its most eminent sons.
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‘Baloch students will take up arms if denied rights’
“Balochistan is one of the poorest provinces,” he said. “But the terror that our youths are facing has reached the roots of society. Even the student who goes out to buy a pen is apprehended by these elements and is then interrogated and given such a hard time that in the medium to long run it is hardly surprising that these young men turn towards violence. Our libraries and our literature have been burnt, and I want to say we had no objectionable material, unless these people think sayings of Karl Marx and others go against the state.”
Jauhar openly blamed the state for its incompetence and indifference. He went to the extent of saying many of these elements are directly linked to the state.
In a militant’s eyes, it is not wrong to take up arms against someone who has beat up his mother or killed his brother.
He claimed Baloch activists are constantly being kidnapped, tortured and killed. Sometimes they are so brutally tortured and mutilated that they cannot be identified.
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The Mass Graves of Balochistan
The state-sponsored inquiry committees formed in Pakistan in recent times to probe scandalous crimes have shockingly narrowed down their overall scope to one specific goal: Prove the government's innocence. Marred with a chronic lack of public trust, the government and the military intelligence agencies are often blamed for atrocious crimes against unarmed civilians. Hence, the government, while pretending to investigate the harrowing crimes, spends substantial time contemplating how to deflect any charges against it. While the media and the general public are consistent in their demand for "independent investigations" into various cases, we are witnessing an alarming trend among the officially appointed investigators who, understandably, try their best to disprove allegations against the government.

Considering the lack of accountability mechanism and fragility of state institutions, the government always finds such probing bodies a shortcut to absolve itself from criminal charges. Once these investigative committees, often led by senior members of the judiciary, clear the government of its involvement in cases that require more transparency, the State immediately closes forever a chapter replete with numerous unanswered questions.

The findings of one such judicial tribunal about mass graves in Balochistan province are equally disappointing and consistent with the blatant pattern of shielding the actual masterminds of the mass grave scheme. In January 2014, at least three mass graves were found in Balochistan's Khuzdar district. The actual number of the dead bodies found in these graves varied depending on who one asked. The provincial government confirmed that 17 bodies were found in these mass graves while the ethnic Baloch nationalists, who are currently fighting the Pakistani state since 2004 for a free homeland, insisted that more than a hundred bodies had been found in these mass graves.

The Pakistani intelligence agencies, which had previously been castigated by the country's Supreme Court for being regularly blamed for widely practicing enforced disappearances in Balochistan, was once again nominated by the relatives of the missing persons. The missing persons are mainly, if not always, sympathizers of the Baloch nationalist movement. Their family members suspect that the military had killed the missing persons in custody and then dumped them in desolate places presuming that no one would ever find out about them.

So, the fresh official investigation tribunal did not come up with any extraordinary revelations except for vehemently ruling out the involvement of the Pakistani army and the government. That is not an adequate response to such a shocking discovery of human dead bodies. The people of Balochistan deserve a more resounding official account of the story behind the mass graves. Isn't it the primary responsibility of the government to protect its citizens, including those who do not share its political ideology? If the government is not responsible for the mass graves in Balochistan then who else is? It clearly seems that the Pakistani authorities are hiding the full truth and protecting the actual culprits responsible for killing and burying people believed to belong to the opposition camp.

Since the discovery of the mass graves, the government has remained unhelpful in getting to the truth behind the mass graves. The government sometimes deviated from the actual issue by disputing the actual number of the bodies found in the mass graves while, on other occasion, it blamed India for being involved in this gruesome episode. The Pakistani government has had such an irksome habit of blaming India for very trouble inside its frontiers that such official statements are no longer accepted as an alternative to the full truth.

The conflict in Balochistan has now completed one full decade. Starting from the military regime of General Musharraf, the conflict has shown no signs of resolution during the next two democratic governments led by the country's two major political parties namely the Pakistan People's Party (P.P.P.) and the Pakistan Muslim League (P.M.L.). The army is unwilling to change its confrontational policy toward Balochistan while the civilian governments of the P.P.P. and the P.M.L. have demonstrated insufficient enthusiasm to introduce a breakthrough in the conflict.

Following his grand success in last year's general elections, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed a moderate Baloch nationalist, Dr. Abdul Malik, as the chief minister of the province. The appointment of a pro-Pakistan, educated Baloch nationalist as the chief executive of the province generated some unrealistic expectations about changes on ground in Balochistan. On the contrary, Sharif and the army over-burdened the poor chief minister by expecting him to solely fix the chaos in Balochistan. On the other hand, the central government simultaneously stabbed Dr. Baloch in the back by introducing such fresh laws that legalized enforced disappearances.

Islamabad's repeated denials about its involvement in human rights abuses in Balochistan will not only perpetuate the conflict but it will also provide institutional protection to and encouragement for those who are engaged in misuse of their official power in the name of 'national interest'. Since the retirement of former Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary and the failed assassination attempt on vocal senior journalist Hamid Mir in Karachi, the judiciary and the media have also been intimidated and pushed back to such an extent that they have begun to submit to the official stance instead of confronting it.

Pakistan does not have a reconciliatory policy toward Balochistan. Whatever the current policy is, it is not working. Islamabad is reluctant to introduce a new workable policy because it will require bringing several important allies of the military, including its former chief General Musharraf, to justice. Unfortunately, Islamabad's current policy protects instead of persecuting those responsible for escalating tensions and violence.
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Freedom Fighters kill one

Cross border attack kills soldier in Balochistan
more than seventy terrorists and smugglers freedom fighters and mujahidin intruded into Pakistani-occupied Baloch territory, specifically Balochistan's Killa Saifullah district.
Some FC personnel were also injured during the gun-battle that lasted for more than three hours at the porous border line of control
The Foreign Office had lodged a protestwhined and bitched about this with Afghan authorities
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2014 Freedom House Report. As usual, pakis belong in the pig barn. But note the rankings of Indian Kashmir and Paki Kashmir, which are listed separately. Indian Kashmir is even ranked higher than pakiland as a whole.

Rankings 2014

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Media ignored military operation in Kech district, says BSO-Azad leader
Activists of the Baloch Students Organisation-Azad held a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Monday demanding the media’s attention towards ongoing operation in the Tump and Gomazai areas of Kech district.
“The military operation which began on Sunday failed to find space in the vernacular and mainstream press,” she said.
“The military surrounded the Tump, Gomazai and Mund areas and within half an hour all homes in the area were destroyed by shelling from helicopters. People ran towards the date palm gardens around their homes for cover but were killed by mortar shells that were thrown by the law enforcement agencies”
Speaking about the history of operations in Balochistan, Kareema said that “such operations have become a daily routine in Balochistan. The army selects an area or a district which is followed by bombardments and mortar shelling. The homes are destroyed and young men from the families are taken away.”
She alleged that extremism and sectarianism in Balochistan was “supported by the state-owned groups involved in killing on the directives of the intelligence agencies”.
As the press conference ended, the BSO leader asked the media persons to ask questions but the main hall at the press club remained silent for over a minute and then everyone scurried out one by one
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Pakistan's Balochs demand Scots-style referendum :
Dr Bashir Azeem, secretary general of the outlawed Baloch Republican Party, said: "The Baloch have been struggling against the excesses and tyranny of Punjab-dominated establishment of Pakistan for decades," referring to the country's largest and most powerful province.

"If a fair referendum is conducted after creating an atmosphere for it, providing the opportunity to Baloch population for deciding their future, it is welcomed," he added.
AFP via Times of Oman

India must support Balochistan to escape “excesses and tyranny of Punjab-dominated establishment of Pakistan”. Indian consulates in Afghanistan and Iran should redouble efforts.
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One major obstacle in India's strategic calculus w.r.t. rescuing the Baluch from genocidal oppression seems to be dissolving -
Jhujar wrote:The flare up at Pakistan's other border
Iran not comfortable with development of Gwadar Port
A senior official of the Home Department of Balochistan, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, says that Iran supports Baloch separatists fighting against Pakistan.He suggested that this was related to Iranian misgivings about the development of the Gwadar Deep Sea Port. Gwadar, which is around 75 kilometers east of the Iranian border, will compete with the India-backed Iranian port at Chabahar by providing trade access to land-locked Afghanistan and Central Asian States through Pakistan.“We are not safe even here. The Iranian spy service is behind the murder of my young colleague,” Raheemi says. The exiled ethnic Baloch Iranians seek support from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to get political asylum. “We are fighting for Baloch rights inside Iran,” he says.Those living in Pakistan’s border districts are completely dependent on Iran in commodities and jobs. [/b]Riaz Baloch, a resident of Pakistani Balochistan, says that people from the region must now go through strict security checks to enter Iran. Baloch says members of his family live in Iranian Sistan-Balochistan, but deteriorating relations between the two countries mean they cannot see one other.The two countries must take practical and effective steps to remove the trust deficit. Iran must stop cross border attacks on Pakistani soil, and Pakistan has to address the grievances of Iran. Both countries must make joint efforts to curb the menace of terrorism and extremism. The two neighboring countries cannot afford tension at the 900km porous border since both are faced with common threats of terrorism and extremism. :lol:
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Nothing like igniting or blowing up of Western Border of Pakistan. large military assets have to be diverted by pakis to contain Baloch insurgency.
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