Baloch Human Rights Council (UK) appeal: We would like to draw your attention to the cold blooded murders of Baloch political activists by the Pakistani Military in recent months.
This is a war of survival. If all the Baloch don't resist in discipline by being united now, we can never rise again, or at least for a very long period.
Just one day before the completion of one year since Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani presented in a joint session of the parliament the much-hyped Aghaz-e-haqooq-e-Balochistan Package, authorities in Pishin District found five more dead bodies supposedly of the missing Baloch persons. Levies officials said these bodies had been found by a shepherd in an isolated place between Yaro and Bostan.
Islamabad and its powerful establishment are committing Balochcide, a systematic act committed with institutional intent to destroy Baloch society. Islamabad's brutalities and Hitler-like policies against the Baloch people will not deter us from continuing our struggle nor will these terror tactics result in suppressing our feelings
Their harsh treatment of nations under their subjugation is backfiring and will eventually bring about the demise of these arbitrary structures. Colonialism in case of Pakistan and Iran or other arbitrary countries with similar status are parallel to the earlier era of European colonizers and the ancient conquerors and plunderers.
Washington should stop providing Islamabad with weaponry that can be used against India and take a realistic view of the reasons for Indian-Pakistani tensions.
On 4th August 1947, a tripartite agreement was signed between Pakistan, the British and Balochistan called The Standstill Agreement in which the sovereign status of Balochistan was accepted. The Khan declared Balochistan independent on 12th August 1947, two days before the independence of Pakistan. The Khan affirmed his intention to build Balochistan as a prosperous sovereign country in which Baloch could retain their identity and live in accordance with their traditions and establish relations through treaties of friendship with neighboring states of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan as well as with India and outside world.
n the 1950s, 60s and 70s, the national struggle in Balochistan had a strong socialist content. The overtones of revolutionary socialism in this nationalist movement had attracted not just the Baloch youth but also inspired young students from the Punjab and other areas who travelled from far and wide to join this résistance
Unbeknownst to even most residents of Pakistan, the country's military has unleashed a new phase of systemic violence upon Balochistan. The apparent reason this time around is Dr Allah Nazar, a former chairman of the Baloch Students' Organisation (BSO), whom the military intends to "˜remove'.
Activists and workers of political parties have been gunned down practically on a daily basis for nearly two years now. Also in the crosshair are ordinary people, who are being targeted for no apparent reason except their ethnicity.