Baluchistan: The Story of Another Pakistan Military Genocide

arun · Post by **arun** » 13 Feb 2011 09:51

The freedom loving people of Balochistan are in no mood to meekly accept the genocide launched against them by Punjabi’s of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Protests over the extra-judicial killing of Baloch’s observed:

Shutter-down strike in Balochistan

In other news the freedom loving people of Balochistan strike a blow against the economic exploitation of Baloch resources for the enrichment of the Punjabi’s of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Four gas pipelines blown up in Dera Bugti

Raghavendra · Post by **Raghavendra** » 19 Mar 2011 12:07

The dead end http://www.dawn.com/2011/03/18/herald-e ... d-end.html

arun · Post by **arun** » 27 Mar 2011 08:39

Extrajudicial killings by organs of the Punjabi dominated Security Forces of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan targeting the Baloch / Baluch ethnic minority continues notwithstanding the connecting thread of the shared Mohammadden religion.

One hopes that the Baloch will not be cowed down by the genocidal tactics of the Punjabi dominated Security Forces of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan continue their just struggle for freedom for Balochistan from thie rapacious Punjabi grasp:

Eight bodies found in Balochistan

wig · Post by **wig** » 30 Mar 2011 19:04

Pakistan's secret dirty war In Balochistan - normal paki behaviour

mutilated corpses bearing the signs of torture keep turning up, among them lawyers, students and farm workers. Why is no one investigating and what have they got to do with the bloody battle for Pakistan's largest province?
The bodies surface quietly, like corks bobbing up in the dark. They come in twos and threes, a few times a week, dumped on desolate mountains or empty city roads, bearing the scars of great cruelty. Arms and legs are snapped; faces are bruised and swollen. Flesh is sliced with knives or punctured with drills; genitals are singed with electric prods. In some cases the bodies are unrecognisable, sprinkled with lime or chewed by wild animals. All have a gunshot wound in the head.

This gruesome parade of corpses has been surfacing in Balochistan, Pakistan's largest province, since last July. Several human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have accounted for more than 100 bodies – lawyers, students, taxi drivers, farm workers. Most have been tortured. The last three were discovered on Sunday

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/ma ... -dirty-war

JE Menon · Post by **JE Menon** » 01 Apr 2011 18:27

This article was linked in another thread (can't find it now). I'm reposting it here because it contains some incredible language. Is this really the Baltimore Examiner?

http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy- ... up-cricket

Extracts:
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A traditional dhol cha'ap or music and dance was spontaneously organized in Khuzdar, which is regarded as the political and cultural center of Balochistan, according to Bramsh news. Vociferous slogans were chanted against Pakistan, the report said...

According to Imtiaz Baloch, a leader of the premier Baloch Human Rights Council of Canada, the mother of a young Baloch, who was killed and dumped by the Pakistani security forces, smiled for the first time in six months when she was informed that India had won the cricket semi-final...

Armin Baloch, who is from Balochistan, declared “... We the Baloch people warmly congrat India for their victory against tyrant terrorist state.”

Tarek Fatah, who friends call the “Sage of Toronto”, declared, “The better team India won, and we were all saved from the spectacle of 11 Pakistanis prostrating themselves on the pitch and then chanting Allah-o-Akbar to thank God when God was cheering for the other side.”

As Pakistan promotes religiosity at state level in case of a cricket victory against arch-rival India, 11 members of the Pakistan team touch their forehead to the ground and raise their butts in the air, doggy-style, thanking God.

Armin Baloch added, “...Today's day is dedicated to India, there is no one on this planet more happy then we Baloch people. Jay Hind [Long Live India]."

Pakistan army generals think they will be able to turn back the clock of history and rule over India like in the past when Muslim invaders slaughtered 80 million Hindus and became the rulers in New Delhi...
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Seriously, WTF? No Indian paper will even go half this far!!!

krisna · Post by **krisna** » 02 Apr 2011 05:35

JE Menon wrote:This article was linked in another thread (can't find it now). I'm reposting it here because it contains some incredible language. Is this really the Baltimore Examiner?

http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy- ... up-cricket
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Seriously, WTF? No Indian paper will even go half this far!!!

this was posted in TSP dhaaga

also the terms used-

KHUZDAR, Occupied Balochistan: Baloch people in many towns and cities across Occupied Balochistancelebrated the victory of India over Pakistan in the world cup semifinals in Mohali Wednesday.

Since July last year, as many as 130 political and civil rights activists were forcibly disappeared, tortured and subsequently killed execution-style by the Pakistani occupation forces that include the Frontier Corps, Military Intelligence and infamous Inter-Services Intelligence.

menon s · Post by **menon s** » 19 Apr 2011 22:27

Dr Nazar’s perspective on Balochistan situation
A must read interview on Baloch situation.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.as ... 011_pg7_16

In a rare glimpse into this conflict and into a region veiled by its near-blackout media status, Dr Allah Nazar, one of the best-known and revered Baloch resistance leaders with boots on the ground, agreed to an interview. The questions to Dr Nazar were delivered to him at an undisclosed location by an intermediary.

All the state terrorism being carried out in Balochistan has been ordered by the higher authorities. Interior Minister of Pakistan Rehman Malik recently told the intelligence agencies to wage a ‘guerrilla war’ against Baloch political activists. An organisation has been made by the name of -Sipahe-Shauhda whose job is to eliminate the politically conscious Baloch. Both Chief Minister and Governor of Balochistan have called for and supported military’s operations against the freedom fighters.

JE Menon · Post by **JE Menon** » 20 Apr 2011 10:36

Again, the language in the above article is quite incredible... looks like Dailytimes took it wholesale and put it in without the usual editorial cookie cutter. Or it was part of a "deal" ...either way, very unusual ...

Added later - I re-read it... A must read in full. This is almost a manifesto. Something is up ladies and gents. Somebody at Daily Times is about to get violated, most likely.

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 20 Apr 2011 10:55

krisna wrote: also the terms used-
KHUZDAR, Occupied Balochistan: Baloch people in many towns and cities across Occupied Balochistancelebrated the victory of India over Pakistan in the world cup semifinals in Mohali Wednesday.

Now we need the Sindhis to behave this way and then we will see some vision of the future. It is a long way still from here still

arun · Post by **arun** » 01 May 2011 09:32

The Punjabi dominated Security Agencies of the Military of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan accused of carrying out a campaign of targeted killing of Non-Baloch’s in Pakistan Occupied Balochistan in order to tarnish the freedom struggle of the Baloch:

Baloch leader accuses agencies of killing non-Baloch in Balochistan

shyamd · Post by **shyamd** » 01 May 2011 15:12

The Baloch are busy building momentum and popular support, Kayanahi's operations reflect that.

shravan · Post by **shravan** » 12 May 2011 06:24

Five more political activists found dead in Balochistan

shravan · Post by **shravan** » 25 May 2011 08:38

Three more bullet-riddled bodies found in Balochistan

QUETTA: Three more bullet-riddled dead bodies of Baloch missing persons were found from Morgab area of Kech district and Gowargo area of Panjgur on Tuesday.

Raghavendra · Post by **Raghavendra** » 25 May 2011 09:10

The terribly sad state of Balochistan http://tribune.com.pk/story/174433/the- ... lochistan/

In 2006, Pervez Musharraf launched a military operation in Balochistan and killed a former governor and elected chief minister of the province, Nawab Akbar Bugti. This was a watershed moment in the region, which radicalised even ordinary, apolitical Balochis to join the long-standing nationalist movement for regional rights and justice. More than 50,000 Baloch were displaced during the extended military operation that surrounded the killing. Even worse, national and international organisations were obstructed from providing humanitarian relief to those people who fled the violence. Unicef came out with a report on the condition of these IDPs and it was asked to retract it.

The military operation in Balochistan has only intensified over the last five years, with many in the province seeing it as nothing but a brutal form of state repression. Reportedly, more than 4,000 people have been illegally abducted and detained. Out of these, around 149 were later found dead, usually with their dead bodies found by the roadside. The dehumanising nature of the violence is evidenced not just in the ways people are tortured — with holes drilled in the head and bodies mutilated beyond recognition — but also in the way their bodies are discarded. One note accompanying a decomposed corpse said, “Eid gift for the Baloch”.

Those who have been kidnapped, tortured and killed are not just armed militants hiding in the mountains. A vast proportion of them are from the urban middle class, including students, engineers, lawyers, journalists and activists who have been engaging in civilian protest against what they perceive to be wrong policies of the state and the establishment. As the Guardian reported two months ago, a Baloch farmer went to court to file a case for his missing son but his lawyer was murdered. When he subsequently went to the media, the president of the local press club was murdered. Now, no one wishes to speak up for him.

In this situation, why should we be surprised or offended if some children in the province refuse to sing the national anthem and local schools refuse to fly the national flag? Why do we shudder when an increasing number of people in Balochistan — including women, for the first time — shout slogans that go against the existence of Pakistan. Every dead body is an embodiment of a renewed resolve to fight the policies of the centre. This, in turn, has brought about retaliatory violence. Armed Baloch groups have also resorted to horrific forms of indiscriminate violence. They used to blow up gas pipelines. Now they carry out target killings. Of Punjabi settlers, government servants, even Chinese engineers — any blood that the elite might care about.

To address the situation, the present civilian government had introduced the Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan package in November 2009, promising a ban on new military cantonments, a commission on enforced disappearances and payment of overdue gas royalties. This is exactly what was needed. But the Gilani government remains powerless in the face of the forces that continue to run and rampage Balochistan. US military aid was meant to train and equip the FC to fight the intrusion of the Taliban into Pakistan. Instead, a situation has arisen where Pakistan constantly has to hear accusations that it is sheltering the Taliban in Balochistan.

Forty years ago, the eminent sociologist, Hamza Alavi, wrote that it was the Pakistani Army itself which was most threatened by the Bengali demand for regional autonomy. The Awami League, which had an absolute majority in parliament, was committed to aiding development by decentralising economic policymaking and reducing military expenditure. Moreover, army cadres were fed the self-perpetuating delusion that Bengali nationalism was ‘an Indian-inspired, Indian-financed and Indian-engineered move to disrupt the unity of Pakistan’. This was accompanied by an added delusion — that Bengali nationalism was limited to a small number of intellectuals and politicians and if they were eliminated, the obedience of the Bengali people would be restored.

These are precisely the twin delusions which were used to drive and justify a systematic campaign of violence against the Bengalis in 1971, at the hands of our armed forces and the Jamaat-e-Islami militants, alBadr and alShams. We all know the result. These are precisely the delusions that undergird the current campaign of terror in Balochistan, with new sponsored wings such as Baloch Musalah Defa Tanzeem and Sipah-i-Shuhada-i-Balochistan. Additionally, worryingly it seems that, extremist Islamic forces are being mobilised to quell the secular Baloch struggle.

Hasn’t the use of radical Islam as ‘strategic depth’ in Afghanistan already landed us, as well as our neighbours, in extremist depth? The biggest threat to our sovereignty is neither India nor the US, it’s from within, from our inability to ensure supremacy of parliament and elected civilian rule. We urgently need to have in place a system, as mandated by the constitution, where elected governments are sovereign and have control over the military and its various arms. This should be accompanied by the return of all those who have ‘disappeared’ in Balochistan in recent years.

The recognition of political, economic and cultural rights for constituent regions is fundamental for any federation to survive and is central to the functioning of a modern democracy. Yet, generations of Pakistanis have been made to believe, the army-backed logic that extending these rights is the vey antithesis of modern nationhood, because it is tantamount to ‘provincialism’ and destroys Pakistani and Muslim unity. This is our fundamental problem. A positive Pakistani identity can never be based on the repression and denial of the many histories and societies that, in fact, embody the life and spirit of Pakistan. All we have to do is acknowledge and respect them, instead of killing and dumping them.

Agnimitra · Post by **Agnimitra** » 28 May 2011 00:28

X-post

China drops the Gwadar hot potato

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/ME28Ad01.html

arun · Post by **arun** » 03 Jun 2011 08:20

In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a nation claimed to have been created as a safe haven for the Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent, teaching Islamic Studies seems to offer no protection from targeted killing if one happens to be a freedom loving Baloch / Baluchi seeking to escape the yoke of servitude under the Pakistani Punjabi :

Target Killing: Prominent Baloch Intellectual Shot Dead

Agnimitra · Post by **Agnimitra** » 06 Jun 2011 03:48

Can anyone control Pakistan's ISI?

Nearly 200 political activists have been abducted, tortured and killed in the troubled province of Balochistan over the past two years merely for demanding their political rights.

krisna · Post by **krisna** » 10 Jun 2011 01:29

BALOCHISTAN: GREATER REALISM IN CHINA & IRAN B Raman

Despite brutal suppression, different Baloch organisations calling for greater autonomy or independence have managed to maintain their freedom struggle. They have been greatly disappointed by the lack of external support---particularly from India—to their freedom struggle, but this has not demoralised them.

Both China and Iran have been paying even greater attention to the ground situation in Balochistan than India.They do not wish well of the Baloch freedom-fighters. In their perception, the secession of Balochistan from Pakistan would not be in their national interest. It could have adverse consequences for China in Chinese-controlled Xinjiang and for Iran in its Baloch areas. Any success of the Baloch freedom struggle in Pakistan could lead to a demand for a Greater Balochistan incorporating the Baloch areas of Iran.

The entire Gwadar project was a brainchild of Pakistan’s GHQ. Its ostensible commercial purpose of serving the external trade requirements of Afghanistan, the Central Asian Republics and Xinjiang in China concealed an ultimate military purpose of providing a strategic depth to the Pakistan Navy by reducing its dependence on the Karachi port which could be vulnerable to surprise Indian attacks in case of a military conflict.

Till the beginning of 2010, there were indications that the Chinese were going along with the Pakistani ideas and urgings for the upgradation of Gwadar into a modern naval base on par with Karachi. Subsequent developments have poured cold water on the Chinese enthusiasm for the project

Simultaneously with the Chinese reiteration of their continued lack of interest in the Pakistani proposals for the upgradation of Gwadar into a naval base with a possible Chinese presence there, reports have been coming in that Iran has started dragging its feet on the construction of a gas pipeline from Iran into Pakistani Punjab through Balochistan because of the continuing freedom struggle of the Balochs.

wkks are

The scepticism of China and Iran regarding the ability of the Pakistani Armed Forces to put down the Baloch freedom struggle should act as a morale-booster to the Balochs and encourage them to further step up their freedom struggle. Unfortunately, the continuing lack of unity among different Baloch nationalist organisations and the consequent in-fighting are coming in the way of a successful culmination of the Baloch freedom struggle.

Unite to succeed---that is the slogan that should be reverberating across Balochistan.

krisna · Post by **krisna** » 10 Jun 2011 01:47

Editorial: The Baloch Noam Chomsky Is Dead

There is renewed anger across Balochistan over the dreadful assassination of one of the most popular icons of Balochi literature and civil society, Dr. Saba Dashtiyari. A professor of Islamic studies at the University of Balochistan, the fifty-eight-year old university educator was gunned down when he was taking a walk in Quetta on Wednesday night.

Saba Dashtiyari was in fact Balochistn’s Noam Chomsky. He symbolized reawakening of the marginalized and deprived masses. He represented the breed of dissenters, critics and skeptics. He stood for freedom of expression and movement.

Killing someone as influential as Mr. Dashtiyari is like alienating thousands of educated Baloch youth toward Pakistan. It’s a pity that most Pakistani newspapers and television channels did not properly cover the killing of a man who promoted liberalism on the campus for two decades.

What does this high-profile murder mean to Balochistan? Similar to Nawab Bugti’s killing, Balochistan will never be the same again after Saba’s murder. The fallout of his murder, however, is going to eventually come in a slow but a different way. Besides political rallies and shutter down strike calls given by the Baloch National Front, this incident is going to give a wake-up call to Balochistan’s lower-middle class. Much has been said about the role of the tribal elites in the past and the rise of the middle class in the current Baloch movement but one has barely heard of the Baloch lower middle class, which Saba represented.

RajeshA · Post by **RajeshA** » 10 Jun 2011 13:37

I don't know if it has been posted before, but a good history of the "Accession" of Baluchistan to Pakistan! Quoting in full!

Published on Jan 11, 2011
By Wasim Altaf
Accession at Gunpoint: The Baloch Hal

During British Raj Baluchistan did not enjoy the status of a province but comprised four princely states namely: Makran, Kharan, Lasbela and Kalat. The Khan of Kalat was the Head of the confederacy, also known as the Baluchistan States Union. The northern areas of Balochistan including Bolan Pass, Quetta, Nushki and Naseerabad were leased out to Britain, which were later, named as British Balochistan. In 1876 Sir Robert Sandeman Chief Commissioner of Balochistan concluded a treaty with the Khan of Kalat and brought his territories which included all four princely states under British suzerainty.

The treaty between the Khan of Kalat and Robert Sandeman accepted the independence of Kalat as an allied state with British military outposts in the region. The British interest in the region was to use it as a land mass bulwark against Central Asian encroachments. Around 1830’s Balochi nationalist parties emerged to contest for freedom from British rule. The princely state of Kalat was the focal point of a free and united Balochistan. The Khan of Kalat never acknowledged the larger paradigm of a federation arguing that Kalat had special Treaty powers.

In the partition plan of June 3rd 1947, while discussing the future of Kalat, Lord Mountbatten said that he would meet the representatives of the other princely states and suggest to them that they should adhere to one or the other of the Dominions as the Union of India had reduced its demand for adherence to the states only to the subjects of Defense, Communications and Foreign Affairs. He further said that since there were only few such States in the case of Pakistan, Mr. Jinnah was willing to discuss the question of the method and degree of adherence with each individually. He went on to argue that paramountcy would lapse with the transfer of power, and states would become independent de jure, but de facto very few were likely to benefit from it. He said that adherence to a Dominion was the only way of maintaining some form of relationship between the Crown and the states. He advised Kalat that although it had liberty of choice, it should associate with Pakistan on some terms. The Prime Minister of Kalat, Aslam Khan responded that the Khan of Kalat wanted to come to an amicable settlement with Pakistan, which would be of mutual benefit. On June 17th 1947 Mr. Jinnah announced that while the British depart all Indian states would become independent and free to decide their future course of action.

On 15th of July 1947 Sir Geoffrey Prior wrote letters to Jam Sahab Lasbela and Nawab Sahab of Kharan communicating their subordinate status to the Khan of Kalat. Prior to this through Mastung Treaty dated 13th july1876 all tribal chiefs of Sarawaan, Jhalawan and Lasbela had accepted the suzerainty of Khan of Kalat. Earlier, on 1st April 1936 the Khan of Kalat issued a memorandum which was also enforced in Makran which showed that Makran was under the administrative control of Kalat.

The Khan of Kalat claimed that Jinnah had asked him whether he would be willing to send representatives to the Pakistan Constituent Assembly, to which he responded in the negative, saying it would not be possible because of Kalat’s independent status. However, more importantly, the Khan had agreed with Jinnah that an understanding must be reached between Kalat and Pakistan on Defense, Foreign Affairs and Communications. The Viceroy opined that agreement on these subjects was essential. A series of meetings between the Viceroy, as the Crown’s Representative, Mr. Jinnah and the Khan of Kalat followed, which resulted in a communiqué on August 11, 1947. The communiqué stated that:

The Government of Pakistan recognizes Kalat as an independent sovereign state in treaty relations with the British Government with a status different from that of Indian states.

Legal opinion will be sought as to whether or not agreements of leases will be inherited by the Pakistan Government.

Meanwhile, a Standstill Agreement has been made between Pakistan and Kalat.

Discussions will take place between Pakistan and Kalat at Karachi at an early date with a view to reaching decisions on Defense, External Affairs and Communications.
The communiqué was signed by Lord Mountbatten, Mr. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan, Lord Ismay,(Chief Commissioner) Mr. Ahmed Yar Khan (Khan of Kalat), Mr. Muhammad Aslam Khan (The PM of Kalat), Sir Sultan Ahmed (Legal Counsel).

The New York Times in its publication dated 12th August 1947 flashed the following news “Under the agreement, Pakistan recognizes Kalat as an independent sovereign state with a status different from that of the Indian state. An announcement from new Delhi said that Kalat, a Muslim state in Balochistan, has reached an agreement with Pakistan for free flow of Communications and Commerce and would negotiate for decision on Defense Foreign Affairs and Communications.” On 13th August 1947 the New York Times published a world map wherein Balochistan was shown as a free and independent state.
On 12th August 1947 the Khan of Kalat proclaimed independence and the flag of Kalat was hoisted. The upper & lower houses of the legislative were constituted and their first session was summoned for Sep 1947. Earlier, on the 15th of July 1947 the political Agent to Governor General wrote a letter to Jam Sahab Lasbela and Khan Sahab Kharan intimating them of the fact that the administrative control of their respective states was handed back to the state of Kalat.

On August 15, 1947 when the British withdrew from India, the Khan of Kalat said in his speech: “I thank God that one aspiration, that is independence, has been achieved, but the other two, the enforcement of Shariah-i-Muhammadi and unification of Baloch people, remain to be fulfilled. He also expressed the sense of incompleteness of the process of unification and independence, and appeared to be referring to the leased areas, which Pakistan had inherited from British India. The British, on the eve of departure, had played a neat trick with the Baloch people, as they proclaimed that the future of British Balochistan (Northern areas of Balochistan including Bolan Pass, Quetta, Nushki and Naseerabad) were to be determined by a voting college comprising the Shahi Jirga (excluding the representatives of the Balochistan States) and the elected members of the Quetta Municipality. The plan virtually limited the voting exercise to certain loyal clients of the British and the Muslim League.

By October 1947, Muhammad Ali Jinnah had a change of heart on the recognition of Kalat as an “Independent and a Sovereign State”, and wanted the Khan to sign the same form of instrument of accession as the other states, which had joined Pakistan. The Khan was unwilling to abandon the nominally achieved independent status but ready to concede on Defense, Foreign Affairs and Communications. However, he was unwilling to sign either a treaty or an Instrument, until and unless he had got a satisfactory agreement on the leased areas. Fears were also being voiced that officials of the Government of Pakistan might start dealing with the two feudatories of Lasbela and Kharan, and accept their de facto accession, as these two feudatories “were recognized by the Crown Representative as separate States” prior to July 15th 1947.

The Khan summoned both the houses of the legislative and a joint session was held on 14th December 1947 in Dhadar. The issue of accession to Pakistan was presented before the lower house (Dar-ul_Awam) by Mr. Douglas Y. Fell, the foreign minister of Kalat. Mr. Fell told the house that the Government of Pakistan wanted the state of Kalat to announce accession with Pakistan and subsequent to this the fate of leased areas, Kharan and Lasbela would be decided. He further told that the Khan categorically told Jinnah that Kalat was not prepared for accession with Pakistan. Mir Ghaus Buksh Bizenjo while addressing the Dar-ul-Awam said ‘Although we are Muslims, this does not mean we should be a part of Pakistan, If only being Muslim is the solitary reason for our being part of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan should also merge into Pakistan. It is impossible for Balochistan to be a part of Pakistan. Before the creation of Pakistan our Khan accommodated Muslim League within its jurisdiction while Pakistan is not willing to return our leased areas and the feudatories (Kharan and Lasbela) back to us. We can take care of our Defense, Foreign policy and Communications. We also have natural resources, ports, oil and gas. If Pakistan extends the hand of friendship we would welcome it, however, any undemocratic and coercive action would not be tolerated and we are prepared for any sacrifice to preserve our freedom and independence. Similar speeches were made by other members of the house. The Dar-ul-Awam unanimously rejected accession to Pakistan. On 3rd and 4th Jan 1948, the session of Dar-ul-Umara was held in Dhadar. The house unanimously rejected any call for accession to Pakistan arguing that it would lead to cessation of Baloch Identity. The Khan then sent the unanimous decision of both the houses to Pakistan’s Foreign Office through Prime Minister of Kalat.

By February 1948, the discussions between Kalat and the Government of Pakistan were coming to a head. Mr. Jinnah wrote to the Khan of Kalat: “I advise you to join Pakistan without further delay…and let me have your final reply which you promised to do after your stay with me in Karachi when we fully discussed the whole question in all its aspects.” The Khan replied that he was not in a position to take a final decision on his own without consulting the legislative. On February 14, 1948, Mr. Jinnah visited Sibi, Balochistan and addressed a Royal Durbar, where he announced that until the Pakistan constitution is finally written in about two years time, he would govern the province with the help of an advisory council that he would nominate. However, the main reason for his visit to Balochistan was to persuade the Khan of Kalat to accede to Pakistan. As it transpired, the Khan failed to turn up for the final meeting with him, pleading illness. In his letter to Mr. Jinnah he said that he had summoned both Houses of the Parliament, Dar-ul-Umara and Dar-ul-Awam, for their opinion about the future relations with the Dominion of Pakistan, and he would inform him about their opinion by the end of the month. When the Dar-ul-Awam met on February 21, 1948, it decided not to accede, but to negotiate a treaty to determine Kalat’s future relations with Pakistan. The Khan of Kalat also called a meeting of the Dar-ul-Umara to consider Mr. Jinnah’s request for Kalat to accede to Pakistan. The Dar-ul-Umara asked the Khan to seek three months to consider this request. The Khan of Kalat, made a brief speech in which he emphasized the need to have friendly relations with Pakistan, and also said that the intentions of Mr. Jinnah towards Kalat were good. The Prime Minister of Kalat spoke next, and said that since this House had voted for Kalat’s independence, the only way forward for Kalat was to accede to Pakistan in the matters of Defense, Communications and Foreign Affairs. The Prime Minister argued that with accession in respect of the three subjects, the internal independence of Kalat would not be affected. But Mir Ghaus Baksh Bizanjo spoke against accession to Pakistan, and he argued that if Pakistan wanted friendship with Kalat, it should restore its leased territories as well as Kharan and Las Bela. The House dispersed without any intention of meeting again. Dar-ul-Umara asked for three months to study the terms of accession in order to understand its implications. On March 9, 1948 the Khan received communication from Mr. Jinnah announcing that he had decided not to deal personally with the Kalat state negotiations, which would henceforth be dealt with by the Pakistan Government.

On 17th March 1948 the Government of Pakistan announced accession of Kharan and Lasbela. Similarly Makran which was part of Kalat for 300 years was declared a separate state and annexed. All these actions generated unrest and strong negative sentiments among the people of Balochistan.

On 27 March 1948, Lt.Colonel Gulzar of the 7th Baluch Regiment under GOC Major General Mohammad Akbar Khan invaded the Khanate of Kalat. General Akbar escorted the Khan of Kalat to Karachi and forced him to sign on the instrument of accession, as reported by Selig Harrison in his book “On the Shadows of Afghanistan”, while Pakistan Navy’s destroyers reached Pasni and Jiwani. The Khan of Kalat signed the accession papers on 28th March 1948. Mr. Jinnah signed them on 31st March 1948.The Khan was then detained, his cabinet dissolved, a large number of Baloch “dissidents” arrested and the army assumed full control of the province.

(Courtesy: Viewpoint)
Waseem Altaf is a human rights activist.

arun · Post by **arun** » 26 Jun 2011 11:48

Setting aside the shared Mohammadden faith, proxies of the Punjabi dominated Deep State of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan persist with the oppression of the minority Baloch people:

1. Targeted Killing: BNP leader Rustom Marri shot dead

2. Bullet-riddled body of BSO-Azad leader found

Agnimitra · Post by **Agnimitra** » 27 Jun 2011 23:27

Pakistani forces attacked in Mand, Investors in Gawadar will not be safe they should withdraw: BLF

Mastung Pakistani forces' operation, one killed six arrested

Agnimitra · Post by **Agnimitra** » 28 Jun 2011 20:49

Day after day...Two Bugti Baloch abducted near Hub town of Balochistan

Their family and relatives say that they have been whisked away by Pakistan’s intelligence agencies.

According to the details yesterday evening Elahi Baksh Bugti and Shah Murad Bugti went missing while they were on their way back to the Hub town from Karachi. Both men were last contacted when they arrived near ‘’Hub River’’. “After that their phones are switched off and we have no information about their whereabouts” said Ali Jan Bugti. Elahi Baksh Bugti is a government employee and both are resident of ‘’Haji Murad Goth’’, a village situated in the adjacent of the industrial town of Hub, Balochistan.

Nasar Ullah Baloch while strongly condemning the abduction of the two Bugti Baloch men, said that the intelligence agencies are not obeying the laws and continuously violating the human rights by abducting the Baloch youths. The so called democratic government is completely silent on brutalities, which clearly indicates that the current government is not serious about the grave and urgent issue of enforced-disappearances in Balochistan. Mr.Baloch has appealed to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Human Right Organisations to play their due role to stop the increasing incidents of abductions and recovery of bullet riddled bodies of the Baloch youths in Balochistan.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 29 Jun 2011 04:14

Re: Mir Rustam Marri
http://criticalppp.com/archives/52570

Agnimitra · Post by **Agnimitra** » 05 Jul 2011 19:02

Unkil and TSP wrestle in a catty GUBO-lock over Shamsi airbase in Pak-occupied Baluchistan:
US, Pakistan top brass fire risky salvos

In the latest episode of the spat that began between Washington and Islamabad two months ago with the taking out of Osama bin Laden by US Navy Seals in a solo operation in Abbottabad, the two seem to have locked horns over the use of an air base, called Shamsi, in the sensitive province of Balochistan.

Pakistan Defense Minister Ahmed Mukhtar on June 29 announced that his government had asked the Americans to stop using Shamsi for drone attacks against targets inside Pakistan and vacate the base. Mukhtar was quite categorical and told Reuters: "We have been talking to them [on the issue] for some time, but after May 2, we told them again. When they [US forces] will not operate from there [Shamsi base], no drone attacks will be carried out."

However, within 24 hours, US official sources in Washington also told Reuters that no US personnel had left the base and there were no plans for them to do so.

A member of the Pakistani parliament, retired Lieutenant General Abdul Qadir Baluch, representing the area where Shamsi base is located, also confirmed to Reuters that American personnel were still at the base.

Such an out-of-hand rejection by Washington may smack of the colonial-era extra-territorial rights and could trigger an angry backlash from both the government and people of Pakistan.

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It seems, however, that the power barons in Islamabad are themselves suffering from a serious disconnect with each other in sensitive decision-making. Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan has feigned ignorance of any decision to ask Washington to vacate Shamsi and hinted that Mukhtar may possibly have expressed his personal wish.

On the other hand, in an exercise aimed, perhaps, at soothing some badly frayed nerves in Islamabad, CIA sources in Washington have revealed that Shamsi hasn't been used to launch drone strikes inside Pakistan since the Raymond Davis affair threw a spanner in the works between the two countries.

Drones, according to this source, have since been launched from a base near Jalalabad in Afghanistan. However, what matters to the people of Pakistan - and rudely hurts them - is the fact that they are still being hit, and killed, irrespective of the provenance of these flights.

A day before the Shamsi issue became the latest casus belli between Islamabad and Washington, the chief spokesman for the Pakistan military's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Directorate, Major General Athar Abbas, issued a caustic statement in which he cautioned US military commanders to be mindful of Pakistan's "concerns and constraints".

Abbas was responding to remarks made a day earlier in Washington by Lieutenant General John Allen, nominated as successor to General David Petraeus as commander of US and North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces in Afghanistan, and Admiral William McRaven, designated to lead the Special Operations Command of US forces. Both were testifying before the Armed Services Committee of the US Senate. In his testimony, Allen had faulted Pakistan for "hedging" against a putative US military withdrawal from Afghanistan by not acting against the Haqqani group, long faulted by the Americans as principal supporters of the Taliban.

McRaven was even more acerbic in castigating Pakistan for dragging its feet on the long-insisted US demand that it conduct military operations against the North Waziristan-based Haqqani group. He described Pakistan's reluctance as "both a capacity issue and potentially a willingness issue" and added, to Pakistan's chagrin: "I don't think it [the mindset] is likely to change."

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It seems that the two sides have, inadvertently, ventured into an apparently snowballing series of tit-for-tat actions. The same day that Abbas remonstrated in Islamabad against Washington's unprovoked wrath against Pakistan, President Barack Obama's chief security adviser, John Brennan, told a meeting in Washington that if other Osama-like targets were identified in Pakistan, the US would not hesitate to stage a re-run of the Osama raid.

Warning: Following material uses very suggestive and disturbing GUBO language. Parental guidance is advised.

It's obvious that the Americans, buoyed by the success of their stealth operation that took out Osama, are anxious to press home their advantage. In their rush to reap maximum benefit from the new scenario, they feel with some justification that the Pakistanis aren't as eager as they are, and aren't willing to go that extra mile Washington deems necessary to administer a long-sought coup de grace against the terrorists holed up in Pakistan's tribal belt. They seem determined to mount as much pressure as they feel warranted for bringing Pakistan into line.

However, there's a danger that leaning too hard on Pakistan may reap just the opposite effect.

[...]The military commanders have been left in no doubt by a popular backlash that faults them for being too in awe to the Americans and complicit in a war that was unpopular from day one and has become more so because of the blood that drone attacks continue to spill.

Still, the ace up the sleeve for the Pakistan military is the people's far greater distrust of their political leadership than the armed forces. Therefore, general headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi may see it as pragmatic to stand up to the Americans and not sign on dotted lines laid down by Washington, especially when the weak and corruption-ridden civilian leadership of Pakistan has absolutely no desire to cross swords with the Americans.

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In the latest development, GHQ in Rawalpindi has announced the launching of a "full-fledged [military] operation" in central Kurram, close to the Tora Bora - where al-Qaeda is said to have a strong presence - with thousands of troops and helicopter gunships. The area, according to military sources, had earlier been declared as a conflict zone. Thousands of civilians, according to a front page report in daily Dawn, started fleeing as the military offensive got under way.

The launching of this latest offensive against militants well inside Pakistan has only one interpretation: it is an attempt by the Pakistan military to pull back from the brink in its mangled relations with Washington.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 08 Jul 2011 16:40

Dawn special edition on B.
http://www.dawn.com/balochistan-in-focus

arun · Post by **arun** » 09 Jul 2011 07:16

X Posted from the Oppression of Minorities in Pakistan thread.

Following the Mohammadden religion in an IEDological Muslim State and Islamic Republic claimed to have been created as a safe haven for the Mohammaddens of the Indian Sub-Continent brings no succour for the Balochi’s / Baluchi’s.

Peter Tatchell on the oppression of the Baloch / Baluchi by the Punjabi dominated security forces of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan:

Saturday, July 09, 2011

Pakistan: Secret, dirty killings in Balochistan

Peter G Tatchell

Pakistan’s secret, dirty killings in the province of Balochistan are escalating, according to the Asian Human Rights Commission.

Since the beginning of this year, at least 36 Baloch journalists, writers, human rights defenders, students, nationalists and political activists have been killed extrajudicially. Pakistan’s security services are accused of orchestrating the murders, in a bid to crush Baloch nationalism.

This intensified wave of repression is corroborated by Amnesty International. It has documented the disappearance or murder of 90 persons in ‘kill and dump’ attacks between last November and February 2011. …………………………….

Huffington Post

arun · Post by **arun** » 10 Jul 2011 09:19

X Posted from the TSP thread.

Back to back blows struck for freedom by the Baloch / Baluch people from the exploitative grasp of the Punjabi’s of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

On Friday an 8 inch diameter gas pipeline taken out:

Gas pipeline blow up in Loti

On Saturday a 16 inch diameter gas pipeline taken out:

Gas pipeline blown up in Pir Koh

shyamd · Post by **shyamd** » 11 Jul 2011 01:54

^^ Game on. US is now racheting up the pressure.

Airavat · Post by **Airavat** » 16 Jul 2011 06:07

Marri tribe blocks coal mining by Pakistan in Baluchistan

menon s · Post by **menon s** » 28 Jul 2011 18:12

Next time any Pakistani or types like christine fair questions about Indian involvement in balochistan, we need to put back to them this article from human rights watch.
http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/07/28/paki ... alochistan

arun · Post by **arun** » 30 Jul 2011 08:22

^^^ X Posted, The cited Human Rights Watch report:

“We Can Torture, Kill,or Keep You for Years” : Enforced Disappearances by Pakistan Security Forces in Balochistan

arun · Post by **arun** » 31 Jul 2011 14:24

The Punjabi dominated security forces of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan persist with their pogrom targeting their fellow Mohammadden co-religionists, the Baloch:

Balochistan kidnappings: Two bodies found near Makran Coastal Highway

Agnimitra · Post by **Agnimitra** » 04 Aug 2011 03:35

Re-posting, deleted by mistake:
Article links US moves in and off Yemen to possibility of aiding Baluchi freedom struggle.

Obama’s new blueprint of covert warfare

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http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=106727

Islamabad—Following the US defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Obama administration continues with its agenda of secret wars. The US administration is scheming against Pakistan. The next six months would be very crucial. The administration plans to repeat secret operation in Pakistan. It would time the next operation before the presidential election to boost the image of Barak Obama.

The next target is Balochistan. In this connection, the CIA and MI6 assembled rouge elements from Balochistan and Sindh in London. They issued a highly objectionable statement against the Pakistan military and invited US and British troops to deploy in Balochistan and Sindh. Evidently, this provocative meeting and statement are part of the psychological warfare against the defiant military establishment.

Obama, who has landed the United States in one of the most serious economic crisis, is now reshaping his war into one mostly out of public view to push for military domination. He is insisting on the war doctrine even as the United States was close to default. Its debts have risen to $14.3 trillion.

Pakistan remains in grave danger. The Obama administration is planning secret wars deep inside Pakistan by covert operations uniting Pentagon Special Forces, CIA paramilitary troops and sophisticated drone. The new generation of drones is very advanced. They can launch powerful missiles. Others are so small that they can eavesdrop unnoticed in the shadows. The hallmark of the new US strategy in Pakistan is the collaboration between the military and intelligence community.

The covert operations in Pakistan would include Delta Force, Seal Team Six and radar-evading helicopters. Operatives from CIA’s paramilitary special Activities Division are in-country running agents. The Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSCO), which run the “ black” special forces, is flying overhead an armada of drones many of designs and sizes that are still classified.

The CIA, already flying a covert air force of Predator and Reaper drones over Pakistan, has now acquired enough that it’s begun patrols over Yemen to provide more consistent surveillance and heavier firepower than most of JSOC’s fleet can supply.

Meanwhile, a mini-carrier—currently the Marines’ amphibious assault vessel USS Boxer—is on permanent station in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen’s coast with a squadron of Harrier aircraft to fly strike-missions against targets in-country identified either by the CIA, special forces on the ground or the drones.

When the target warrants, the submarine escorting the amphib is called into action, to launch one of its battery of land-attack cruise missiles. In the command center of this covert campaign, video feeds from a drone over the target have allowed commanders to witness real-time the cruise missiles’ impact. The campaign against al Qaeda in Yemen is thus far more ambitious than has been disclosed. No element in the campaign is new. What is new is their integration—CIA, “white” and “black” special operations forces, and conventional forces—into a unified effort under a single command.

The concept behind the operation took shape during Petraeus’ spell running Central Command from fall 2008 to mid-2010. After Petraeus shifted last summer to take over the effort in Afghanistan, the campaign was amped up by JSOC commander Vice Admiral William McRaven and Michael Vickers, the Pentagon’s Undersecretary for Intelligence (and a veteran of both U.S. Special Forces and the CIA’s Special Activities Division). At the CIA, Director Leon Panetta vigorously backed their efforts—which is one reason why Obama picked Panetta to succeed Gates.

Petraeus was likely referring very obliquely to the Yemen campaign when, at his confirmation hearing, he talked of the need to combat the network of al Qaeda “franchises”—the Yemen-based spinoff from Osama bin Laden by far the most threatening—with “networks of our own.”

“One of the major developments since 9/11 has been the establishment of this network, in many cases led by the Joint Special Operations Command of the military, but with very, very good partnering with elements of the Central Intelligence Agency, other elements of the intelligence community, and in fact with conventional military forces, the white SOF as well as the special mission units,” Petraeus told senators.

The focus of the Yemen campaign is counterterrorism. That’s the mission of the Joint Special Operations Command. But the integrating principle behind it has been applied in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The conflict in Yemen is far from over—its future complicated now by the near civil war against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who gave the go-ahead for the U.S. campaign against the al-Qaeda branch in his country. But within the Pentagon, there is growing interest in the campaign as a possible harbinger of a new sort of warfare.

Admiral Eric Olson, the former SEAL who is soon to retire as commander of Special Operations Command (SOCOM)—the umbrella command for both “white” and “black” special forces—has noted that special forces have nearly doubled in number in the decade since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, their budget has nearly tripled, and their overseas deployments have quadrupled.

The Special Operations Command’s overall strength now stands at roughly 60,000, according to spokesman Kenneth McGraw. Of these, some 13,000 were deployed last week, he said, in 79 countries.

That’s a lot of activity that most Americans can’t see. And it gives Petraeus and Panetta—as they swap agencies—the foundation for designing a new blueprint for covert warfare.

Agnimitra · Post by **Agnimitra** » 04 Aug 2011 21:34

Yawn: Balochistan very significant for US, says Munter

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http://www.dawn.com/2011/08/04/balochistan-very-significant-for-us-says-munter.html

QUETTA: US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter on Thursday said the province of Balochistan was very significant for the United States, DawnNews reported.

Mr Munter was speaking to Speaker Balochistan Assembly Mohammad Aslam Bhootani in Quetta.

Moreover, Mr Munter declared his support for the democratic setup in Pakistan.

Earlier on Wednesday, Mr Munter had announced Rs 8.6 million for the construction of two houses in the SoS village in Quetta.

Also on Wednesday, Mr Munter reiterated that he was very optimistic regarding the Pakistan-US ties despite disagreements between the two countries on various issue.

He maintained that the US government was aware of the suffering of the people of Balochistan and was extending cooperation in fields such as education and health to benefit the people of the province.

Another rag: Balochistan is of importance to US: Munter

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http://thenews.com.pk/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=20045&title=Balochistan-is-of-importance-for-US:-Munter

QUETTA: US Ambassador Cameron Munter said Pakistan and specially Balochistan is of importance to them and US would continue to work for strengthening democracy in the country, Geo News reported.

He was talking to media after a meeting with Balochistan Assembly Speaker Mohammad Aslam Bhootani here today. Munter noted that we US would always be there whenever needed.

'People of Balochiatan are very hospitable and I have always receive respect by them.' He told journalists that US would cooperate in Balochistan's water and energy projects.

In meeting with Speaker Aslam Bhootani, they discussed matters of mutual interests.

arun · Post by **arun** » 06 Aug 2011 21:59

arun wrote:^^^ X Posted, The cited Human Rights Watch report:

“We Can Torture, Kill,or Keep You for Years” : Enforced Disappearances by Pakistan Security Forces in Balochistan

Amnesty International joins Human Rights Watch (HRW) in the condemnation of the genocidal acts of the Punjabi dominated security forces of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in Balochistan:

Document - Pakistan: Detained Baloch men risk death

Agnimitra · Post by **Agnimitra** » 11 Aug 2011 18:42

Leading 2-page story on Asia Times today:

Balochistan caught in spiral of violence

A report by Human Rights Watch on resource-rich Balochistan province says "the Pakistani security services are brazenly disappearing, torturing and often killing people because of suspected ties to the Baloch nationalist movement". In response, Balochis are targeting Shi'ites and Punjabis. The violence is escalating into all-out war, recreating the situation in 1970-1971 that culminated in the birth of Bangladesh.

Agnimitra · Post by **Agnimitra** » 11 Aug 2011 19:06

And another leading piece on Baluchistan on ATimes:

Unrest ripples across the region

Strife-torn Balochistan is a key component of the regional rivalries centered in Afghanistan. These create further friction in the already-deteriorating relations between Pakistan and the United States, while Iran and India also have reason for concern as the province slips into anarchy.

Agnimitra · Post by **Agnimitra** » 11 Aug 2011 22:15

From article linked above:

Meanwhile, Pakistan has publicly accused India of supporting Balochi separatists, and some officials in Islamabad are privately skeptical about Iran, too, while Iran has accused Pakistan of sheltering members of the Iranian terrorist group Jundallah, mostly composed of Sunni Balochis fighting against the Shi'ite government.

Why would Iran support Baluchi insurgents in TSP?

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 18 Aug 2011 18:49

Pak govt unable to extradite Musharraf in Bugti case

The Pakistan government has informed a court that it cannot extradite former President Pervez Musharraf in connection with a case registered over the killing of Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Bugti in a military operation in 2006.