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State Department comments are a positive step; International Community should intervene in Balochistan: Dr Allah Nazar Baloch

Occupied Balochistan: Baloch national leader Dr. Allah Nazar has welcomed the American State Department statement against the human rights abuses, enforced disappearances, custodial and target killings of Baloch activists by Pakistan saying that it was a positive step, provided it was not a pressure tactic for obtaining other objectives.

Dr. Nazar said that, thus far, America, the international community and the United Nations have refrained from condemning the genocide of the Baloch nation. Every rational human being knows the reasons for which they have compromised the human rights of Balochistan. After 9/11, Pakistan promised the world community that it would fight terrorism, but it was a false promise designed to mislead the United States and its allies into extracting money and military aid in the name of the war against terrorism.

Instead of fighting terrorism, all foreign aid Pakistan has received from America and its allies is now being used against liberal Baloch forces to crush their freedom movement. It has also spread its tentacles of terrorism around the world. Baloch pro-freedom forces have, all along, been crying their hearts out to express that Pakistan is not the part of solution. Now it has been realized that Pakistan is, indeed, playing a double game.

Though the condemnation of human rights abuses has come late, it is promising that the Unites States has taken a step in the right direction. The international community, along with America, should openly come out in the support of the Baloch freedom movement under the auspices of a UN forum and impose economic, political and military sanctions against Pakistan.

As a regional power, China, too, should adopt a reasonable and responsible policy towards Balochistan and stop aiding the Pakistani state against the Baloch nation because Balochistan, as an independent state, can play a key role in maintaining peace, stability and democracy - crucial for achieving religious tolerance and prosperity in the entire region.

Dr. Allah Nazar, the field commander of the Baloch Liberation Front, said it should be clear that merely issuing a statement or deploring the abuses does not stop Pakistan from committing heinous crimes against humanity in Balochistan. The world powers and the United Nations should take pragmatic steps to bring Pakistan to book for committing crimes against humanity, just as they did against Serbian, Libyan and Sudanese generals for committing crimes against humanity in Bosnia, South Sudan and Libya.

Dr. Nazar said that Pakistan's spy agency, the ISI, the Pakistani military, the heads of Pakistani armed forces, the 16th corps commander in Balochistan and the Inspector General of the FC should be prosecuted for grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions. The International Criminal Court should also hold Pakistan responsible for committing genocide of the Baloch people in the form of enforced disappearances, extra judicial killings and inhumane torture inflicted upon Baloch political workers. Financial and trade sanctions should be imposed on Pakistan because these crimes are of an international character.

Courtesy: Dailytawar

Translated by Archen Baloch with additional edits by CB.


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