The only solution of afghan problems

By Hafeez Hassanabadi


Apparently America had a big gratitude on Russia by removing its missile shield
program from Eastern Europe, because from the beginning it has been opposing it.
However, there are two main reasons behind it which are generally ignored; no one is
willing to turn the debate towards it and both reasons are related to afghan and
Iraq wars. This was the main reason the America brought changes to its missile
shield deployment program in Eastern Europe. The first reason is that the Americans
are, at the same time, directly engaged in two colossal wars in two countries. These
two wars have rendered the Americans into a difficult position along with its
European allies. So in such circumstances, it has economically become difficult for
them to continue this war further more.
Secondly, quite contrary to the expectations, keeping in view the fact that they
might suffer a disgraceful defeat, the Americans and the allies have all now focused
all their attention towards that issue, so that they could attain a comprehensive
solution to it.
As our debate evolves around Afghanistan issue, therefore, we are going to analysis
its different aspects and dimensions so that we could reach to a solvable result.
It is our believe that there is only one solution to afghan issue, that is, unless
America and the world as well, do not think seriously that angle of the issue, then
they will have to seek different solutions of several issues.

A: Then what should be done with Pakistan, Which is fighting simultaneously for
Talban and its allies through state sponsored terrorism? Now the new statement by
the American government that it does not believe that nobody from Pakistanis
leadership knows, where the Al Qaeda leadership sanctuaries are located, besides
this, previous experiences of two years show that whenever a big operation started,
either it ended up in a failed agreement, or terrorists leadership made the save
escape masterly, despite the tall claims of Pakistani army that they have closed all
escape routes.

B: What should be taken of the Pakistan internal problems, that even under a
democratic government; corruption has broken all known record of previous
governments by 400%. Who make it sure that the money been given to it for the war
on terror, would not be wasted like the previous ones?

C: What is the solution of different nationalities within Pakistani federation with
which Baloch and Pashtu states were forcefully annexed as a political bribe by the
then British empire to safeguard it’ future Interests? Not only Pakistan has
failed to keep them, but also it has made every opportunity available for Talban and
Al Qaeda to grow in these areas. In Balochistan the Baloch areas are totally free of
their affects, but how one can make it sure that the Baloch areas are not going to
be affected by this cancer in future?

D: What should be the take of the world community about the involvement of Pakistan
in Iranian atomic weapon programs, where it is most probable that Iran would allow
IAEA experts to inspect its atomic installations, but tomorrow, who predicts that it
would not make an excuse and ask the inspectors to leave the country?

E: The Iranian Islamic ideology, under which the Iranian government is established,
is based on the philosophy of ayatollah Khomeini who said that there were two big
Satan in the world - America and soviets union – the Iranian officials are still
describing America as the biggest Satan, yet about the Russia, which is inheriting
the soviets legacy, the Tehran regime has still not taken back its leader words. The
main reason, why Iran is wedged with Russia is obvious because, it has now become
necessary for it to seek a veto wielding power, which could help her out against
Israelis and American pressure in time of need, and alleviate its difficulties.

F: It is now no more a secret that, wherever there is an insurgency in the name of
Islam around the world, the fingerprints of Iranian funding and Pakistani technical
supports are clearly visible. The problem, which has united the entire world against
Islamic extremism, is deep rooted in Pakistan. It is fed and nourished by Iran and
the Islamic extremist elements around the world. Now how this complex formation of
ferocious forces can be unraveled and rendered ineffective, remains to be seen.

G: Both Pakistan and Iran are united not just because of Islamic ideology, but
because of precious Baloch land, which has compelled them to be united. The
unpredictable grim situation of Pakistan has worried Iran beyond its imagination,
lest Balochistan should break away from Pakistan. If it happened so, then it would
be utterly difficult for Iran to contain its own controlled Balochistan from
breaking away! The same could be said about Pakistan comprehension. If a
"successful" attack on Iran by America or Israel, or a rupture from internal
pressure, would surely slash Iran into different independent nation states. It would
further aggravate the situation in Pakistani controlled Balochistan. Therefore
Pakistan would do every thing to strengthen Iranian position.

One may wonder why we are talking about Iran's nuclear program and the relation
between Pakistan and Iran, while the subject we are here dealing with, is about
Afghan issue. It is very simple, because, I think, unless America and the NATO
remained bogged into Afghan quagmire; they would not be able to exert
considerable/appropriate pressure on Iran. Hillary Clinton is justifiably
apprehensive of Iran speedy nuclear program, "world community has no time to allow
Iran any unlimited grace time".

Therefore, it would be folly of the world community if it allowed conditions,
conducive for Iran to prevail for enhancing its nuclear program.

The above mentioned problems are different from that of Afghanistan internal
countless complexities. The unpopularity of karzai government, widespread
corruption, the existence of widen gulf between Pashtuns and other nationalities,
the vacillation of American and NATO military in decision making, ethical
dilapidation, the increasing power of Talban, the financial bankruptcy of America
and its allies, the reluctant of nations other then the allies to assume peace
keeping task, and above all The lake of an alternative ideology to replace the all
powerful Islamic extremist ideology of Talban in Afghanistan, (Because only an
ideology can defeats an ideology, not the gun)

Here the most worrying factor is that, apart from the Iran's internal revulsion and
its atomic program, the unpopularity of Karzai government and corruption in
Afghanistan as will, all other existing problems are directly or indirectly related
to Pakistan! It means Pakistan is the root cause of all those problems, which have
complicated the afghan war and created problems for America and its allies.

In such circumstances there remains only two ways to proceed. Firstly, all the
problems should be regarded separately, and be put into separate categories, and
then the solution should be sorted out; which is a time consuming and daunting task.
Each problem must be thoroughly diagnosis and for each a new strategy should be
chalked out. The second is that all attention should be focused on the main sources
of the problem, which is Pakistan.

But Before focusing all attentions on Pakistan, the question should be kept in
mind why Pakistan is not serious in eliminating the Talban and the Al Qaeda?, What
is its weakness, which is urging it to create problems in Afghanistan, about Which,
afghan president and American officials have often been heard that Pakistani secret
agencies are involved in deteriorating the situation.

It is our firms believe that unless the Americans and the entire world do not
comprehend the minor fact, the solution of Afghanistan problems and forcing Pakistan
to stop its involvement in it, remains an unattainable desire, and that minor fact
is that Pakistan never wants a prosperous Afghanistan exists next to its door as it
poses a existential threat to it. In the prospect of a prosperous and developed
Afghanistan, the Pashtuns (as they call themselves Afghani) would never want to
remain with another country.

In this scenario, secondly, the Baloch would never relent, unless their identity is
threatened. If the independent and democratic Afghanistan allowed Baloch( the
Baloch who are living on their own land within afghan federacy) to enjoy all
democratic and human Rights within its federation, then on the other side of the
border in Pakistani controlled Balochistan, the desire of Baloch people for
independent Balochistan would stirred up, which is already intriguingly fascinating.
One needs to have an exclusive look on it. It is a nightmarish scenario for
Pakistan.

Therefore, for Pakistan unless Afghanistan remained ruined, the Durand line would
remain a silent issue. The day the Durand line issue raised and Baloch leadership
and Afghan government successfully presented their point of view about it before the
world community, Pakistan will have to eat the humble pie in abdicating its afghan
areas to Afghanistan and accepting Balochistan as an independent Baloch sovereign
state.

Iran is also in the same boat where it is in accomplice with Pakistan in committing
the genocide of Baloch nation and other nationalities within its orb. By the virtue
of the same Durand line, a large chunk of Baloch land is in its possession where
Baloch are almost all excluded and kept in slavery.

Keeping in view the current situation, Pakistan would not relent in foiling all
those schemes and efforts made to stabilize Afghanistan, unless the world community
grantees it that the Pashtuns would never, in any form, make any demand of
conjoining their ancestral main home land Afghanistan.

And the second grantee is that (Pakistan's seeking) the Baloch would not make any
demand of liberation from Iran and Pakistan.

But no country in the world could meet such demands particularly in circumstances,
when the world have ceased in trusting Pakistan any more! Neither one can trust its
politics nor does anybody trust its economy. Therefore it's seeking the defeat of
America and its allies in Afghanistan forever through its foxy war by using the
jihadist Talban.
Unfortunately it is not hard to conceive that Pakistan, to a great extent, has
succeeded in its design. America and its allies would not be able to continue their
presence any more within two and half years. So far as the question of termination
of Talban and Al Qaeda is concern, , by the virtue of Pakistani operation (the
Talban would mysterly leave the place where the operation is carried out and
thousands of people become homeless as result of bombardments) which, in terms of
results, could be quoted as a worst form of scheming.

Now in such conditions, anyhow, what should be done to remove the permanent Baloch
and Pashtuns sword hanging over Pakistani head? So that it could play an affective
and positive role in the war of terror! There are only two ways of resolving this
question, others are temporary and ineffective.

1- To bring Pakistan to the level of development with any of the developed nations
in Europe, where everyone has a social welfare grantee, no one feels insecure, nor
it has any restriction on crossing borders, neither has it faced any restrictions of
having business, nor one faces any threat to their culture, language, and their
civics social life. Even despite of presence of all these grantees, no one rejects
the possibility the pashtuns will ever abdicate their desire of leaving together.
And nor the Baloch would abandon the demand of an independent homeland.

2- Under the objective of "divide and rule" the British Empire gifted the lands of
different nations to Iran and Pakistan, as if they were their ancestral property.
Now it is imperative upon the British government to rectify the above mentioned
historical blunder, returning back their lands to them. These nationalities should
be allowed to live together according to their past history. So that in case of
utter desperation from Balochistan, Pakistan and Iran would not be able to interfere
in Afghanistan. Or they should be rendered so weaken to an extent, where they would
not be able to pose anything dangerous to Afghanistan stability.

So far as the development of Pakistan is concerned, it is a far off cry, all rulers,
from the first prime minister till the incumbent president, no one ever tried to be
self- reliant. Even in good times the hand with begging bowl has not been so
stretched as its today.

The history of Democracy in Pakistan has never been so radiant. Zulficar Ali Bhutto,
who was regarded as the biggest democrat, has committed the worst form of
undemocratic sin in the history of democracy in the world. It was he who declared
the majority of Bengalese as traitor and forced them to depart their whys. The
rationale behind it was to get rid of them forever. As they were in majority, if not
allowed today, they would come again tomorrow in majority and claim the power be
transferred to them.

The judiciary in this country has also never been a trusted one. 62 years history of
this county bears the witness that the judiciary has always been a congenital slave
of rulers.

In the name of democracy, the democratic institutions and dictators have, and
sometimes together, cold bloodedly murdered the democracy in this country.
Instead of establishing equality among the different nationalities, a relation of
slave and master was molded to run this country. All known social ills, like
lawlessness, bribery, nepotism, bankruptcy, and corruptions are increasingly allowed
to prevail and expand, and the judiciary has become a spectator.

The centre of our debate isn't Pakistan judiciary, so therefore let us put it in a
nutshell, if a man cuts a man hand, he will be punished for it. But those, who cut
off one of Pakistan's arms (Bangladesh), got scout free. No one even dared to expose
the secrets, let alone the punishing them. (The military operation in Balochistan,
genocide of Baloch people, the apathy of judiciary towards it and the disappointment
of people to the judiciary is not included in the debate)

It is the bad luck of this county that all its governmental institutions are in a
worst form of anarchy. Police fed up with military, military fed up with police and
judiciary.
The conditions of civil institutions are worst of all. The worst conditions of
governmental institutions have reached to the extent, that the ruling party has no
trusts in its law enforcing agencies and security institutions to arrest the killers
of their leader, then how a common man would expect justice in this country for
their problems. This is the weakness under which things are getting out of their
control. Just to end a crisis; they have to create a new fabricated one. Then it
becomes a real one with the passage of times.

A country, where its government is unable to bring under control the flour, cooking
oil and sugar mafia for the past 20 months, which is not armed with weapons, so
how on earth one expects that it would fight the terrorism, drug smugglers, and the
Islamic extremists?

Those who rendered this country in such conditions are still holding the power of
everything, though in different names and different forms. Now expecting from such
people that they would clear all these mess is an utter stupidity, it is as if to
ask someone "take this rope and hang yourself".

Here the thing which proven fatal most of all is the state structure which is
established on the bases of deception of all nationalities and they have been pushed
in a dark alley to hands them up off everything.

A total of 62 years was wasted in rendering the ideologies of G.M Sayad, Pacha Khan
and Sardar Khair Baksh Marri ineffective. In the opposition of the above mentionsed
empty handed leaders, despite of having the facility of billions of dollars and
ample opportunity, This country is still bogged in a quagmire where there is no way
to extract it out of its predicament.

A country for which the survival of its very being is Question number one, how
much time it requires to come on par with Swiss lands and Sweden. Talking about it
is just a waste of your time.

In our opinion, neither the world have such a amount of money nor does it has the
time to pull Pakistan out of its predicaments and put it on the path of development
besides fighting the war on terror. And similarly Pakistani rulers seem to have no
wishes to see their country prosperous and happy.

Under current circumstances, Pakistan, because of misdeeds of its rulers, seems to
be a car which is taken to a garage after the impact of a bad accident where it
receive the suggestion, that it is better to put this structure in a scrap shop
and sell it parts off one by one. Because the problem is that not only this car is
beyond of repairable, but also it is full of explosives. One has to clear it first
of its explosives, before it is required for any use.

What should be done? Before answering this simple question, a minor point is
necessary to be explained here. why we are not paying attention to the solution of
afghan problem within it by holding new elections, establishing a temporary
government, deploying the forces of Islamic countries, decreasing or increasing the
American forces or withdrawing them, holding talks with Talban and buying the local
warlords etc, with several such other schemes, but instead, we suggesting the
solution of Afghanistan's internal problems should be sought externally?

I believe that considering the above mentioned all schemes or considering them
practicable is just a self deception. Because these are the options which are in
use from the beginning of afghan war till today, by using different names, different
forces and different levels. It all resulted in wastage of time. And the second
thing is that, if all these options are acted upon, then the defeat of allied forces
is writing on the wall. And this is what Pakistan government wants.

Pakistanis are still in an illusion and hoping that if the America decreased its
pressure on it or withdraws itself from the area, then they would struck a deal with
Talban like in past times, this make them able to move the war again into
Afghanistan. And Pakistani rulers as usual, in the name of afghan war and war on
terrorism will continue to black mail the world community, because they have now
adopted this dirty game as a source of income. But they have not the slightest idea
Pakistan is internally a ruins and its vital internal organs are bleeding. They not
only lack, the required ability to push it into Afghanistan but now this war has
become so heavy that they even can not slightly move it. Here goes the saying of old
wisdom "what you sow, so shall you reap".
Certainly our suggestions about Afghanistan solutions would enrage Pakistani rulers,
because they still believe that by maintaining the current political status quo they
could bring serenity to it. But the realty suggests otherwise, now the condition of
a worst form of a civil war in this country is looming over its head like dark
clouds. While as an atomic county, its civil war would cause the region for a long
time of sleepless nights. On the other hand the Russians, Indians and the Israelis
would be the first who would feel the devastating affects of this civil war. In the
event of defeat of America and its allies, the morale of the Talban would touch the
zenith. It would be the stupidity of the world community if it ignored the slogans
of Islamic caliphate. The theocracy, under which they expel/defeat America, would
compel them to expand it beyond the region, so that the thousands of, or more so,
Talban and Al Qaeda warriors members (we don’t
regard them two separate identity) who would not set idle and create problem there.

In the event of defeat of democratic and secular forces, Islamic extremism would be
the only concept which encourages them to forge ahead. They would start thinking
that they had defeated Russia and then America and NATO, so why not give a try to
establish Islamic Sharia in closed by Islamic countries. Relatively regarding the
Central Asian countries, the less developed countries would be the first victims of
their onslaught, and then in the same way the Russia and Europe, and on the other
side Kashmir, and from several other ways India as well. Thirdly from the inferno
of Iran, they would try to put Israel into flames. Pro Pakistan elements in Talban
and other common student leaders would not allow India and Russia to increase their
sphere of influences by creating chaos in these countries, in the wake of American
departure. Pakistan would support their policy, just because it also helps Pakistan
to save itself from Russians and Indians influences.
And it also provides an opportunity to Pakistan to crush the pro independent forces
there. America, because of its wounds of the defeat, would not be able to show any
immediate reaction.

But so far experience has proven that all Pakistani modus operandi of scheming the
things and calculations are doomed to failure.
Pakistan would not be able to calm down its internal anarchy, by spreading terror in
Israel, India and Russia, despite keeping them away from itself.

Therefore world should be waiting for another Burundi and Somalia in the shape of
Pakistan with a permanent power, which could be the main reason of a war between
Islam and Christianity, Jews and non-believers.

In this scenario, it is a rare opportunity for the world powers, including America
to save the world from the disaster of this country messes, and Pakistan itself, to
rectify that historical blunder where Baloch, Sindhis and pashtuns regard themselves
enslaved.
Only the complete declaration of freedom of all these nations would save Pakistan
and the world as well from disastrous consequences.

The relative peace that followed after the demise of Soviet Union, and the
balkanization of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, is the proven fact that when the
relations become strained, should be severed.

Pakistan and Iran would be disheartened from their interest of weakening
Afghanistan, if only the freedom of these nations returned back to them. The
cooperation between Pakistan and Iran which has put the entire world in a strained
situation, would receive an end. The connections of Islamic and Talban terrorism
tendency would be severed and isolated, thereby it helps to rehabilitate them in a
civic society. The danger of Pakistani nuclear arsenals falling into wrong hands
could be circumvented. Because when all its nationalities get their freedom, the
only Punjab would not need the atomic bomb anymore. And its historical enmity with
India would come to an end. The Kashmir issue would receive the entire world
attention and it would be resolved amicably and peacefully. Corruption in Pakistan
would not pose any danger to a world community. Iran would be compelled to show
flexibility to world community, when the alliance between Pakistan and Iran is
broken. There too it paves the way for all nationalities to regain their freedom
and basic human rights would be restored. The best advantage is that after the
establishment of a common afghan (the inclusion of Pakistanis pashtuns into
Afghanistan) government, post- Pakistan pashtuns would have the ability to do their
level best to control the extremist policy of Talban. Today all the pashtuns have
been put into juxtaposition against each other by Pakistan. But tomorrow, if
allowed, in the event of their togetherness, they would use their best capacity to
establish an excellent democratic government.

A Soviet Union gave birth to 15 different states. None of them shouted foul to each
others and now they all enjoying their freedom and trying to establish good
relationship among themselves. A one of few may have a strained relationship, but it
doesn't mean that their existence is in danger. Or that their mêlée have any
affect on the world peace.

In our humble opinion, the day when the world powers and America identified the root
cause of all evils and perceived that it is laying in the niche of unnatural
division of nations and in the decision of the then British Empire, they would start
seeing the problem from a different point of angle. It would help them resolve this
issue, and this emancipates them from the fear of a possible war of Islam and
none-believers.
Otherwise, today the terrorists who sneak into Europe and carry out terror, but
tomorrow they would enter into Europe with diplomatic passports and wreck havoc
there.

Source; Dailytawar
Translated by Archen Baloch

Police constables gun down Baloch youth in Karachi

KARACHI: Police on Friday shot dead a youth, who had no criminal background, in a Ranchhore Line locality apparently in an attempt to enforce a ban on pillion-riding.

Police said that the deceased, Arif Baloch, was riding a motorcycle along with his pillion passenger, Kashif, in the Ranchhore Line area.

Two policemen of the Garden police station, also on a motorcycle, found them violating the pillion-riding ban and signalled them to stop, but Arif Baloch tried to speed away, they added.

According to the police, the chasing policemen got the youths near the congested Eidgah Chowk. ‘The policemen shouted several times asking them to stop, but they didn’t pay any heed and all of a sudden a single shot was fired by one of the policemen.’

A bullet from the official AK-47 Kalashnikov rifle of Constable Akhtar Nawaz hit 27-year-old Arif, a resident of Lyari, in the abdomen. He died on the spot. His body was taken to the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK).

However, sources in the medico-legal section of the CHK told Dawn that the victim was shot from pointblank range.

The police version was also at odd variance with the account related by the victim’s pillion passenger, Kashif, who told Dawn that his friend was shot dead by police at pointblank range.

‘Arif Baloch had been suffering from a kidney-related disease and I used to take him to the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation,’ he said after the victim was laid to rest in the Mewashah graveyard.

As a matter of course, Kashif said, they were returning from the health facility and Arif was driving the bike when the two policemen intercepted them near Eidgah.

‘We were confident that we enjoyed exemption from the pillion-riding ban because of Arif’s health condition, but the policemen initiated an argument and, all of a sudden, one of them asked us to put up our hands and fired a shot.’

A cloth trader in the Eidgah market, Kashif said he saw red and grabbed Constables Shahzad Ahmed and Akhtar Nawaz.

The scuffle drew the attention of the passers-by who overpowered the law-enforcers and gave them a hiding before putting them in an auto-rickshaw so that they could be taken to their high-ups at the Eidgah police station. They also set fire to the policemen’s motorcycle.

‘Arif Baloch died on the spot,’ he said. ‘When the two policemen were being taken in the rickshaw, they tried to escape but a large number of people following them did not allow this to happen,’ he added.

A police patrol team rescued their two colleagues by firing into the air to disperse the charged crowd.

However, the protesters blocked the main road connecting the Eidgah Chowk with other city thoroughfares including M.A. Jinnah Road. Vehicular traffic remained suspended on the road as the protesters lit bonfires.

A heavy contingent of police arrived at the scene to maintain law and order. However, the protesters demanded the arrest of the policemen upon which senior police officials decided to arrest Constable Akhtar Nawaz, who actually fired at the victim.

The torched bike was owned by Constable Shahzad Ahmed. The police did not find any weapon from the possession of the deceased who had no criminal record.

Although the police authorities ordered registration of a murder case under Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code against Constable Akhtar Nawaz at the Eidgah police station, they maintained that the facts of the incidents needed to be examined before reaching any conclusion.

‘No criminal record of deceased Arif was found…the police did not recover any arm or illegal thing from his possession,’ said Saddar Town SP Abdullah Sheikh. ‘However, there are a few things, as claimed by the two policemen, which are needed to be investigated.’

Citing the initial statement of the two policemen, he said that the two youths violated the pillion-riding ban, did not stop on police orders, ran into a commercial area and finally when they were almost caught, the motorcyclist tried to hit the policemen’s bike due to which both bikes fell down.

‘In the process Akhtar Nawaz’s rifle went off accidentally and the bullet hit Arif,’ said SSP Sheikh.

‘But we are not depending on any statement to arrive at any decision as senior investigators will probe into the case with all honesty following all legal formalities.’

A resident of Singo Lane in Lyari and the eldest among three brothers and seven sisters, Arif was the only breadwinner of the family and was an auto-rickshaw driver by profession.

THE PRE-PLANED GENOCIDE OF BALOCH AN ALLIED WISH OF PAKISTAN AND IRAN

BY HAFEEZ HASANABADI

The debate of Baloch national genocide has been taking place since long but after forced occupation of Pakistan in this region the possibilities of Baloch becoming minorities like Red Indians increased. 250 years ago Baloch had a coastal area of 1500km I.e. from Karachi to Harmoz but today its divided in 5 parts in Iran so that it doesn’t unites as a political power there. Being in Pakistan with 3 different provinces, Balochistan where Balochs are in majority, Pakhtoons are forcibly involved against their will according to a plan to avoid Baloch becoming a great power. The same conspiracy was played on Pakhtoons where they were divided in Balochistan, Punjab and then free tribes etc. to deprive them from unity. Similarly Sindhis had to face weakness in their political power because of bearing hundreds of thousands of refugees from India who were later on localized. That particular refugee who traveled from Delhi and Hyderabad wearing a patched shirt and loin cloth is the master of Sind and the poor sindhi is its servant.

Punjabi is the only nation in this country who absorbed other nations and is united whereas all other nations are victims of indigenous division. This is the reason whenever nations speak about the injustice they faced, blame Punjab because Punjab is the only nation strengthening with Pakistan whereas other nations are suffering division under the governmental and semi-governmental conspiracies.

Baloch’s issue is much critical than other of these nations because not even it is able to read or write its own language in its school, neither it has any opportunity of saving its tradition nor it can defend its culture. Similarly its land can be taken from it and its facing the threat of losing its national identity forever.

From prominent American intellectual Sleigh Harrison to ordinary writers have repeated several times expressing the threat of Baloch facing slow motion genocide. We too have repeated using the term of ‘slow motion genocide’ in tens of our articles, but concentrating more on this subject reveals that using the term of ‘slow genocide’ does not reflects the current disaster Baloch nation is facing.

In fact it is an ugly truth, due to rapid development of science, nations are developing too. So in case of suppression of any nation it can swiftly lose its national identity where killing everyone is not necessary .

Only 1 or 2 per cent of Balochs who migrated to Sind and Punjab in the 15th and 16th century, write their identities as Baloch but are disconnected from Baloch, Balochi and Balochistan in such a way that 5 military operations in Balochistan and genocide of Baloch could not succeed in convulsing them. 90% of them speak Sindhi, Punjabi and Saraiki. Similarly Baloch in Iran bearing 80 years of slavery do not have the stamina to rescue its language, history and culture. Baloch history and Baloch culture is being attacked by Persian history and Persian language like an uprising storm. More than that Baloch can not even practice its Sunni religious prayers in a peaceful environment.


In these past 80 years, Baloch nation was kept backward so much that it feels embarrassed to wear its own traditional clothes. Persians have intentionally attacked Baloch’s culture and tradition to intellectively make them slaves. Baloch living there is convinced that the memento of being educated and civilized person is to wear paint coat whereas its own traditional dress is the bookmark of ignorance and backwardness.

We think any nation dies at the moment when it becomes a victim of inferiority complex. The nations who think they are superior and above all, are called Fascist and aren’t acceptable by the world. Similarly the States who try to involve other weak and minor nations into inferiority complex are hated by the world. These states with the help of their enormous political machinery drive the particular nation in so much inferiority complex that they lose the stamina of rescuing their national identity and they move forward to their end unknowingly.

It took around 4 to 5 centuries for the Balochs living in Sind and Punjab to become one of them but developed Iran in a small period of 80 years turned a large number of Balochs into Shiites. It convinced many people that they being Baloch are less civilized, less educated and in fact less intelligent than Persians. Similarly many were convinced to speak Persian to their children so that the gates of success open to them as if speaking Balochi or being close to Balochistan would close the gates.

In these 80 years a large number of Baloch were perverse to believe that Baloch did not had any such history which can be taught in colleges and universities and neither Balochi was a language to be proud on.

Tehran and Pakistan are killing Balochs in different ways using different weapons. In Iran Balochs are hanged or shoot in the name being Sunni, in the name of drugs, in the name of being US, Britain or Western agent, or in the name of provoking Balochs for freedom. Along with these killings, They are assassin with the weapons like keeping them in ignorance, unemployment, backwardness and corruption murdering their Balochism. These people are seemingly living human but are empty inside. They think alike their masters to keep them slaves forever.

In Eastern Balochistan the situation is no different. In Pakistan, Balochistan is the less developed and most back warded province and Pakhtoon areas are much developed than Balochs. (Here it should not be taken that Pakhtoons are in heaven in Balochistan.)

As here Baloch being slave since a less period of 62 years, so it is less under pressure than in Iran. Newspapers and Magazines are published under help yourself theory here. Music centers are present and literature is in inventory mode being published by helping their own selves. Government TV and radio channels teach the lesson of being Pakistani rather than being Baloch so that Balochi and Brahvi language are near to the stage of elimination. I, being drama and TV person from 1993-97, am a witness that while I used to write scripts, producers always used to tell me to write the dialogues of the characters using most of Urdu words so that ordinary people could understand. Whereas my Balochi was never tough but was indeed pure because I used to implement Rakshani, Makrani and Suleimani accent equally in my dialogues. Being familiar with 3 of these accents, I never had the necessity of using Urdu words that’s what my producers never liked. I was usually present in recordings where actors on the advice of producers used to place Urdu or English words in the dialogues and I used to immediately correct them but in my absence they used to neglect the script using such an ordinary Balochi mixture which used to embarrass me listening to it later.

The main reason of giving this ordinary example is to let the world know the Balochi and Brahvi programs published in the TV and Radios are just to pollute these languages and not for their development.

The situation of Pakistani politics is in front of all, some Balochs have been bought and some have been misguided. Those who want to apprise the threats Baloch and Balochistan are facing, end up like more than 8000 missing people which can be seen by the world. The terrible result of democratic politics in Balochistan resulting the assassination of Martyr Ghulam Mohd, Martyr Lala Munir, Martyr Sher Mohd, Martyr Rasool Baksh and tens of other leaders is a question mark to the world. The state terrorism has reached a point that in the month of September this year, a peaceful public conference in Tump was opened fire in which nearly 20 innocent victims were injured including women and children and one youngster Mukhtar Baloch was martyred.

Here too Balochs are being targeted directly along using the weapons like terror, greediness, corruption, backwardness, division and illiteracy at the same time.

As we have mentioned before, we would like to reinforce the point that in this computerized era it is not so hard to eliminate any nation as all new weapons such as carpet bombardment, media, seminars, internet etc. are used at the same time.

Iran and Pakistan have not only planed to snatch Baloch homeland, the fact of Baloch being a secular nation pins like a needle in their eyes. If the civilized world helps the broad minded Baloch in this region against Pakistani and Iranian religious trend of extremism, the civilized world gains the profit itself. Baloch arising as a moderate power in this region can help the world to fight against 2 challenges in this 21st century I.e. prohibiting drugs because many of Pakistani and Iranian high officials are backing the smuggling of drugs from Afghanistan to Europe and America through Balochistan.The second biggest challenge is the religious extremism which is promoted both in Pakistan and Iran and is a challenge to the entire world. Baloch nation with its secular thoughts can be actively helpful to the civilized world in the fight against this negative trend. Balochistan Zindabaad!

Source: Daily Tawar
Translated by zrombesht

Fresh Military operation in Marri Bugti regions, several reported arrested

Kahan/Dega Bugti: Sources from the far-flung areas of Balochistan have reported that Pakistan military has been carrying out yet another military offensive in several regions of Marri and Bugti strongholds. According to BRP spokesman Mr. Sher Mohammed Bugti, 65 people have so far been arrested from different villages in Sui, Dera Bugti, and Jhatpat areas. He further said that the so called packages are just a drama and the military wa trying to pave a way to intensify army operation in Balochistan. He also strongly criticised the Pakistani Prime Minister's views that there was no ongoing military operation in Balochistan. He said that the Prime Minister was unaware of the situation in Balochistan and that he has no power at all.

The fresh attacks in Marri and Bugti region prove that the government is not sincere resolving Balochistan issue. He strongly rejected the government of Pakistan’s comments about negotiations and said that the Party leader Brahumdagh Khan Bugti would not talk to the enemies of Baloch Nation at any cost.

On the other hand Independent sources reported that Pakistani military has intensified its activities in Kohistan Marri, from last three days the Pakistani gunship helicopters and fighter planes have been pounding Kujjal, Jhabar, Nisao and other areas. These attacks on civilian areas are once again compelling people to flee from those regions and become refugees in their own homeland.

It is worth noting that there are already thousands of Baloch internally displaced people living in appalling conditions and the Pakistani government has stopped the International aid agencies to help them.

Unfortunately the international community including the UN have so far been unable to pressurise Pakistan to halt the military operation in Balochistan. BalochWarna once again urges the International Community and the UN to take notice the ongoing military operation & the slow motion genocide of Baloch people in Balochistan by the state of Pakistan.

Complete shutterdown strike in Balochistan to mark Balaach Marri's martyrdom anniversary

QUETTA: A complete wheel-jam and shutter-down strike was observed across Balochistan on Friday to mark the second death anniversary of Baloch nationalist leader Nawabzada Balach Marri, son of Nawab Khair Baksh Marri.

A former member of the Balochistan Assembly, Balach was killed under mysterious circumstances on November 20, 2007 in a town on the Pak-Afghan border.

The Anjuman-e-Ittehad-e-Marri and the Baloch National Front (BNF) called Friday’s strike, which was observed by all nationalist parties, the business community, transporters and the legal fraternity. Shops, restaurants and offices of private companies were shut in the city while traffic on the roads also remained thin.

Shops on Jinnah Road, Liaquat Bazaar, Prince Road, Abdul Sattar Road, Brewery Road, Saryab Road and the rest of the city remained completely shut.

"Everyone across Balochistan supports the shutter-down strike call, which shows that Balach Marri, who sacrificed his life for the rights of the Baloch people, is recognised as the undisputed hero of Balochistan," said a BNF spokesman. He said Balach had written a new chapter of struggle and sacrifice in Baloch history and would always be remembered as a hero who fought for the rights of his people during the military regime of former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf.

Life remained paralysed in Mastung, Kalat, Noshki, Turbat, Panjgur, Awaran, Gwadar, Naseerabad, Sibi, Khuzdar and other districts of Balochistan. The strike remained peaceful throughout the province as no unpleasant incidents were reported. Police and Frontier Corps patrolled different districts in order to tackle any unpleasant incident.

Balaach is alive

The one who realised the slavery of his nation,

In the high mountains,with no facilities of life

No water,no electricity,no gas,no education,no jobs

He raised his gun for the better future of his people,

Where children afraid to play any game under the shadow & thunders of fighter jets

Gunship helicopters appear before birds in the dawn,

Farmers tears cant extinguish the fire in the fields,

The son of soil displaced like a refugee at their own homeland,

They want us to be with them in the critical time,

Martyrs and missing persons increasing day by day

We should stand unite against the occupying forces,

We wont tolerate you to plunder our resources anymore

You got no roots in Shalkot better go back to Sialkot.

Dont be in any illusion Balaach is dead,

He is alive,his ideology is adopted by every Baloch youth.

By Ali Baloch

Pak government trying to convert university into cantonment: BSO leader

By Malik Siraj

Quetta: The Balochistan University requires funds to improve its existing security plan in the wake of mounting threats faced by the country’s educational institutions.

University officials said, “Ours is perhaps the only university in the world where trains move regularly on the campus, making it impossible for the university administration to establish a wall around the railway track to minimise the risk of terrorist attacks.”

“We need additional funds, millions of rupees to upgrade the security of the university,” said another official.

A senior official, requesting anonymity, said the university administration had prepared a new security plan in the wake of twin suicide blasts at Islamabad’s International Islamic University.

“The government is trying to convert the university into a garrison under the pretext of restoring peace. We do not face any threat from outside. Frontier Corps are our major concern as they have rounded up many students in the past. They also beat up a professor,” Hamal Baloch, a Baloch Students Organisation leader, said.

Under the new security plan, the parking lot has been shifted outside the campus and no one is allowed to park his or her car inside the university. All faculty and students are required to display their identity cards.

“We have installed several CCTV cameras and raised the boundary wall and barbed wire has been fixed on it,” a university official said. However, there is still room for improvement, for which we need funds.”

Second Martyrdom anniversary of Shaheed Balaach Marri to be held

Balochistan Human Rights Council UK, Balochistan Rights Movement and World Sindhi Congress have announced that the second martyrdom anniversary of great Baluch hero, Mir Balaach Marri, will be held on Sunday 22nd November from 1-4 pm in London. The memorial will be held at ULU (University of London Union).

The anniversary is being held to remember and pay tribute to the life, work, contribution and ultimate sacrifice of Mir Balaach Marri who was target killed by Pakistan army on 20th Nov 2007. Commemorations to pay tribute on the occasion of the second anniversary of Mir Balaach Marri are also being held in the USA, Europe, Middle East, Balochistan and Sindh.

Balochistan Human Rights Council UK, Balochistan Rights Movement and World Sindhi Congress invites all Baluch, Sindhis and human rights activists & freedom loving people of other nations to participate to remember and honour the sacrifices of Mir Balaach Marri for the liberation of his nation.


Event Information:
Room 3E, University of London Union Building
Mallet Street, London WC1E 7HY
Date: Sunday 22 November 2009
Time: 1:00 – 4:00 PM
(Nearest Tube Stations: Russell Square, Euston Square)

Organisers and Contacts:

•Baloch Human Rights Council UK
Samad Baloch - 07825087032

•Balochistan Rights Movement
Faiz Baluch - 07540591477

•World Sindhi Congress
Haleem Bhatti - 07939177286

Jail me but free my dad, Families demand release of missing Baloch

eet three-year old Beurag Baloch. He is the son of Jalil Reki, the central secretary information of the Baloch Republican Party (BRP), who went missing since the early days of 2009. Beurag tells us that he believes his father was picked up by the agencies. He does not exactly know what “agencies” mean and what their job is. Yet, he says he misses his “missing father” very much.

His dad is among thousands of Balochs who are currently “missing” after being whisked away by the country’s intelligence agencies. They say some 4000 Balochs have “disappeared” at the moment.

Beurag held my hand and asked me to take his picture pretending to be behind bars in order to convey his willingness to go behind bars in return of his missing father’s release.

“Uncle, can you do me this favor,” he asked this afternoon.

I could not promise but assured to convey his message with his own photograph to everyone that this young child is volunteering to go to Pakistan’s torture cells in return of his father’s release from the custody of the intelligence agencies.

Two Baloch students abducted by Pakistani intelligence agencies

Quetta Junior Joint Secretary of B.S.O. Azaad, Mr. Shafi Baloch has been abducted by Pakistan’s secret agencies while he was on his way back after attending a public gathering at Balochistan Medical College, in Shaal (Quetta). According to BSO- azaad’s official website www.sagaar.org On 7 November Shafi Baloch was first apprehended by the Pakistani police and taken to Barori road police station and then shifted to an undisclosed location. He was kept in the police station for 5 hours and then handed over to the Pakistani army. Shafi Baloch’s abduction provoked and disappointed the Baloch youth and his family but it comes as no surprise to anyone.

Shafi Baloch is just another name that has been added to the list of already thousands of missing Baloch students, political activists and ordinary Baloch. The Sagaar statement further reads: “B.M.C. has recently seen the brutal thrashing of the female students of medical sciences by Pakistan army where another incident of kidnapping has taken place by Pakistan army. The witnesses of the incident stated that Shafi Baloch was immensely beaten at the spot by the officers of the said police station which resulted in injuries to him, later on the Police even denied the incident and said that they didn’t know anything about it”.

It has become a trend of Pakistan’s police and the criminal army that they deny the abduction of Baloch activists after snatching them from Universities, colleges, and public places.

No one either in judiciary, provincial government or from the federal government dares to question the notorious criminal general for abducting Baloch students. The Pakistani media also ignores the atrocities against the Baloch people that their own army is committing, thus becoming a partner in crimes of the intelligence agencies.

Pakistan has stepped up the abductions of Baloch youth and killing them in cold blood while in detention. Several top Baloch political leaders have already been murdered while in custody and the relatives of the missing person fear that the rest of the missing person either have already been murdered or they might be murdered if the International Human Rights organisation and the UN do not take timely action and pressurise Pakistan to surface the missing Baloch activists.

Mr. Hai Bezinjo Baloch, a resident of Mashkay and a student of social works at Balochistan University has been abducted today (11-09-2009) by Pakistan army. Hai Baloch, also a member of B.S.O. Azaad, was taken off a bus in Shaal(Quetta) by Pakistan army personals and was thrashed in front of all passengers, he was blind folded and taken away to an unknown location.

Students in Balochistan are facing difficult conditions where the universities and colleges are turned into army garrisons by Pakistan and each day has its own stories of humiliation, torture, forced disappearances and killing of innocent Baloch students.

Open in new windowThe Senior Vice President of B.S.O. Azaad, Zakir Majeed is also among the thousands of Baloch missing people who are facing dire consequences for raising their voice against the oppression of Pakistan army and the occupation of their motherland.

Zakir Majeed Baloch is also one of the members of Baloch Watan Dost committee which was constituted to secure the safe release of UNHCR head in Balochistan Mr Jhon Solecki and missing Baloch people.

It is worth reminding that another member of Baloch Watan Dost committee Shaheed Ghulam Mohammad Baloch was abducted by Pakistani intelligence agencies from Turbat Town along with his two companions in broad-day-light and they were later killed in custody. Zakir Majeed Baloch has twice been detained in past and release after sever torture, similarly Shaheed Ghulam Baloch and Sher Mohammed Baloch had been detained and had been tortured before their cold-blooded murder on 8th April 2009. Mr Zakir Majeed Baloch’s family members expressed fear that Zakir Majeed Baloch might suffer the same fate as Ghulam Mohammad Baloch and his friends. International Human Rights Organisations and the UN must take notice of Mr Zakir Majeed’s arrest and pressurise Pakistan’s government for his safe release.

Balochs in Iran, the “enemies of God”

Story and photos by Karlos Zurutuza
Originally published in Spanish by gara.net

October 2009

The last Jundallah attack in Western Balochistan´s capital has exposed the dire situation local Baloch face under Tehran´s rule. Since the annexation of Western Balochistan to Iran in 1928, Iranian Baloch have been condemned to an assimilation based on both ethnic and religious factors.

“This city sucks”, complains Abdullah, a young Saudi businessman who has already spent over two months In Zahedan trying to close a deal with Baloch camel merchants.

“No women, no alcohol, no fun…and, what is more, everybody takes me for an Al-Qaeda terrorist!”, complains this 27 year old bearded Arab. He can hardly wait to return to his native Riyadh.

Zahedan is the capital of Sistan and Baluchistan province. Sharing borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan, here every “non farsi" is a potential "terrorist", “drug dealer", or both at the same time. And if you are a Westerner, you must be an “agent”. The ayatollahs accuse the Baloch of collaborating with the West and the armed People's Liberation Army of Iran (formerly "Jundallah"), a Wahabi type group, of allegedly receiving assistance from both the CIA and Al-Qaeda. True or not, the Shia regime seems not to distinguish between the fight against drugs and political dissidents. The result of this conflation is the public hanging of Baloch without benefit of trial. Just last June, 19 "enemies of God" were executed in Zahedan. They were characterized as "corrupt on earth"--in other words, both “terrorists” and “drug dealers”.

"Did you know that here they use camels to smuggle heroin from Afghanistan? Once they are taught the route, the drug is then grafted inside the hump and the animals make their way across the border", explains the young Saudi with a smile shining from his black beard.

In fact, drugs have always been an issue here. When Western Balochistan was annexed by Iran in 1928, Britain had already introduced the opium trade to the region long before. Compared to other parts of the country, its use here was still rare, limited to a handful of tribal leaders. But the consumption of heroin in Western Baluchistan was given a boost with the Pahlevis, whose huge windfall profits were not lost on the ayatollahs. Local public Farsi officers (Baloch are prevented from governmental positions) amassed huge fortunes and now continue to make money with the drug traffic that comes from neighbouring Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Tehran directs their “war on drugs” at small dealers. Drug abuse itself it not worried by Tehran, for a Baloch population hooked on opiates, estimated to be as high as 50%, simply translates as 50% fewer potential dissidents.

Neither men nor names
First local place names just vanish (Zahedan was Duzzap until the early '30s) and the same happens later with the local Baloch population. Today, 6 out of 10 people in Zahedan are Farsis. Unsurprisingly, there are no official figures for the missing local Baloch.

But there must be many, as added to the plethora of Persian security forces and intelligence services is now also the Mersad. It is a paramilitary group said to be operating under the direct orders of the Supreme Leader, Khamenei, that specializes in random beatings and shootings; doubtless an effective way to spread the sense of terror and insecurity among the local population. This unemployed young man from Khash came across them last year. "It was about six in the morning. We were waiting at the entrance of the village for someone to offer us work in the harvest. Suddenly, we heard firing from a Toyota van. Three died and other eight were wounded", explains this young man whilst he shows a bullet wound on his left shoulder.

When the British entered the region in the 18th century, they asked the local Baloch people how they wanted to settle civil cases. Unlike their neighbours who cried “Sharia (Islamic law)”, the Baloch shouted “Rawaj (Baloch traditional code of conduct)”. Tehran has obviously not bothered to ask anybody so, despite the constant killing of Baloch dissidents and Sunni religious leaders, no one in Tehran ever speaks of “religious conflict”. Such is the Persian version of the “war on terror”… and drugs!

"It is a tyrannical regime that seeks the Farsis total hegemony in Iran, nothing else”, complains one of the very few ethnic Baloch professors at the University of Sistan and Baluchistan. He denounces that out of over 20,000 students on the campus, only 500 are Baloch. Needless to say, discrimination in the classroom is proportional to the labour market.

"70 years ago this province was just called Baluchistan; later it turned into Baluchistan and Sistan', and today it´s `Sistan and Baluchistan'. If we stick to this trend, in the future it will be just called `Sistan´", explains this maths teacher. "The power in Iran is held by the Farsis since the Shah´s times. Nonetheless, with the Pahlevis our only 'sin' was our ethnicity, but today Tehran also hates us because we are Sunnis", he adds.

The Kurds in the northwest of the country, or the Arabs in the south also have to cope with this “double handicap”. That´s the price to pay in a country which claims to be a republic, but is very much ruled as an empire.

"The main obstacle is the Iranian Constitution itself. It limits the Persian identity with Shiism as the only religion and Farsi as the only language", says Ibrahim, a student in the campus. "This is the source of the apartheid imposed on us by the ayatollahs," he stresses.

"I am Iranian"
Whatever the case, the university still remains an unattainable dream for most Balochs here, for Sistan and Balochistan provice has been deliberately abandoned to become the poorest region in the Islamic Republic. Mansur has a small appliance store in the impoverished town of Iranshar (once Parah), the second largest settlement in Western Balochistan.

In Tehran people take Mansur for an outsider for his dark complexion and, above all, for his white shalwar kameez, that long shirt and baggy pants set that is indistinguishable between nationalities in Central and South Asia.

"When I go to Tehran they always ask me whether I am Pakistani or Indian”, says the trader. "Then they get puzzled when I tell them in perfect Farsi that I happen to come from their very same country" he says.

"You are not Iranian," Mansur often has to hear on such occasions. "Unfortunately, I am."

Panel assembled for Baluch international moot

number of international activists, scholars and human rights practitioners will be participating in the first-ever Baluchistan International Conference in Washington DC on Nov. 21-22.

The American Friends of Baluchistan, an organization that supports the independence movement, has organized the conference.

The conference has been organized to highlight the Baluch issues in Eastern and Western Baluchistan -- now under Pakistani and Iranian occupation -- and to pay tributes to slain Baluch freedom fighter Nawabzada Balaach Marri, 41, an elected member of the Baluchistan state assembly and son of legendary Baluch leader Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri.

Marri was killed extrajudicially by the Pakistan military on Nov. 20, 2007.

Baluch international activist Mehran Baluch, a brother of the slain leader, will preside over the two-day conference that is aimed to find ways and means to end the plight of the Baluch natives in Western and Eastern Baluchistan.

The panelists at the conference are:

Selig S. Harrison, Asia director at the Center for International Policy, has written extensively on ethnic tensions in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran , focusing on the Baluch nationalist struggle. His 1980 book In Afghanistan?s Shadow: Baluch Nationalism and Soviet Temptations, published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, remains the most authoritative analysis of the Baluch nationalist movement. He is the author of Pakistan: The State of the Union, recently published by the Center for International Policy, where he directs the Asia Program. In this study, he calls on the government of Pakistan to honor the autonomy provisions of the 1973 Constitution and withdraw its armed forces and intelligence agencies from Baluchistan .

Harrison served for 22 years as a Senior Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and was South Asia and Northeast Asia Bureau Chief of The Washington Post.

His five books on Asia include India: The Most Dangerous Decades ( Princeton ) and The Widening Gulf: Asian Nationalism and American Policy (Free Press).

Annie Nocenti's writing has appeared in Details, Utne, HEEB, Stop Smiling, PRINT, The Independent, Filmmaker, Scenario, High Times, CounterPunch, Lies of Our Times, Chronogram and Prison Life. Her story The Most Expensive Road Trip in the World was published in the Best Travel Writing 2008, editor Anthony Bourdain. She has edited books for The Nation and Moveon.org. Her interviews with film directors have been published and anthologized. Her comics include Daredevil, Longshot, Typhoid Mary, and Spider-man. Nocenti made a film with Wendy Johnson called The Baluch http://blip.tv/file/1211472 and wrote a story about her trip to Baluchistan: http://www.brooklynrail.org/2006/12/e ... s/letter-from-baluchistan Nocenti currently teaches film in Haiti.

T. Kumar is the Advocacy Director for International Issues for Amnesty International USA. He has served as a human rights monitor in many Asian countries as well as in Bosnia, Haiti, Guatemala, and South Africa. He has also served as director of several refugee ships and refugee camps. Kumar often testifies before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and frequently lectures at the Foreign Service Institute. A former political prisoner in Sri Lanka for more than five years, he has been interviewed by CNN, BBC, and NPR. He is also a Professor at Washington College of Law's Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.

Andrew Eiva was born of refugee parents who fled tyranny in Lithuania, and learned early on that resistance warfare could help his homeland Lithuania regain independence. His quest took him to West Point -- where U.S. generals are trained -- and the Green Berets. He is best known for his impact on policy and the selection of effective weapons systems during Afghanistan's struggle against Red Army occupation. Later in Lithuania, he led the volunteer pro-independence forces in a showdown with Soviet occupation forces. During the Serb ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, he lobbied for military support for the Bosnians and Kossovars. Currently, he is working on a concept for the Sudanese resistance to use their oil and gas reserves as a tool for unity and victory. Eiva thinks a similar approach could benefit the Baluch drive for independence.

Saghir A. Shaikh, Ph.D, is based in California . He is the former chairman of the World Sindhi Congress -- a Sindhi advocacy and educational organization with chapters in UK, USA.. Dr. Shaikh has been active in different social and political forums since he was five. He is one of the founding members of Sindhi Baloch Forum, G M Syed Memorrial Committee, Sojhro.Org (an education and career abroad web portal), and a life member of Sindhi Association of North America. Dr Shaikh speaks regularly at Seminar and Conferences highligting the Sindh and Balochistan struggle for National Self-determination.

Munir Mengal is the managing director of Baloch Voice based in Paris, France and hails from the remote Mashkay area in Awaran, Occupied Balochistan. He had planned to launch a Balochi and Brohi language Satellite TV channel called "Baloch Voice." But Pakistani intelligence agencies abducted him on April 4, 2006 and he was held incommunicado and faced worst torture in Pakistan military dungeon for 16 months. After being freed on 23 rd April 2008, he came to France with the help of and Reporters Sans Frontieres. He has attended two UNHCR council sessions and made speeches at events organized by the UNPO and Interfaith International.

Dr. Gul Agha is a well-known Computer Scientist and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Agha grew up in, and has traveled extensively throughout Sindh and all of South Asia. He has written numerous short essays about Sindh and has lectured at many Sindhi gatherings. He was the Guest of Honor ('Mukhi Mehman') at the Sindhi New Year (Cheti Chand) celebration organized by the Bharti Sindhu Sabha in Thane in 2000 (Mumbai, India). Dr. Agha is an outstanding speaker whose expertise and personal experience enables him to speak extensively on human rights and international and domestic politics pertaining to Sindh and Baluchistan.

Wendy Johnson is a co-producer of the seminal documentary The Baluch. She has a Master's degree in Languages and Literature of South Asia from the University of Minnesota. She has lived and traveled extensively in Pakistan and India while studying Urdu on the Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Lahore, Pakistan, on two occasions, and with the American Institute of Indian Studies program in Delhi, India. She also studied documentary film at the Anthropological Film Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Wendy works as a graphic designer in New York. She and her husband Albert Larew manage thebaluch.com website.

Asad Rahman is program director at the Sungi Development Foundation. He had taken part in the Baluch resistance against the Pakistan military occupation of Baluchistan along with the Marri guerillas in 1973-77. He was the youngest but fittest in the popular London Group, when at the age of 21, he used to ambush the Pakistani military convoys and take away ammunition from them to sustain the Baluch liberation movement. An eyewitness to the "genocide" of the Baloch in the 70s, Rahman alias Chakar Khan, still an ardent supporter of an independent Baluchistan. He recalls Pakistan military butality saying Baloch women were used as 'comfort women' in military custody and male fighters were captured and thrown from the helicopters.

Ismail Ameeri attended high school in port city of Chahbahar and college in Zahedan in Western [Iranian occupied] Balochistan . After the 1979 Iranian mullah takeover, he went to Karachi and did his Master's in Political Science in from the University of Karachi in 1985. In Karachi he was actively involved in Baloch politics and Balochi literary forums and joined the Western Balochistan-based Balochistan National Movement. He is presently a member of the central and executive committees of the pro-independence party.

A writer in Balochi language, he had been a co-editor of Monthly Taptan ( Balochi ). He regularly chairs and moderates Baloch gatherings in London.

Ali Arjemandi, was born in Kishkor, Sarbaz in western Balochistan in a farmer's family. He was forced to become a refugee and arrived in Norway in the beginning of 1987. He graduated in physiotherapy from the State Physiotherapy School in Oslo in 1995. At the age of 14, was captured and imprisoned for 48 hours of notorious Savak – th seceret service of the Shah of Iran, Reza Shah Pehlavi, was tortured and his leg was broken. He became a member of Baloch Raje Zrombesh from 1985. He is a brother of Ehsan Arjemandi, who was kidnapped by the Pakistani Military Intelligence on August and is still missing.

Aziz Baloch now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he represents the Baloch Human Rights Council. He is MA (Economics) from University of Balochistan and former zonal general secretary of the Baloch Students Organization [BSO], a student body engaged in securing the irghts of the Baloch people since 1967. He has associate degree in professional management and business technology management and served as lecture coordinator in the student program, inviting academics to speak on international topics. A volunteer interpreter/translator for Baloch community in Canada he is a also a seasonal writer -- his articles have been published in articlebase.com and other websites.

Humaira Rahman is a director of the World Sindhi Institute. A former practicing architect and lecturer, she is an environmental and human rights activist. She had laucnhed a highly successful non-profit against urban sprawl in her hometown of Karachi. Ms. Rahman belongs to a well-known family from Old Karachi, where her father and uncle were respected for their community service as educationists and jurists. Currently, she resides in Canada.

Dr. Nazir S. Bhatti has been campaigning for equal basic democratic rights of Christian people in Pakistan since 1985, he is president of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC www.pakistanchristiancongress.org He led numerous protests, hunger strikes, rallies and long marches with other leaders and members of PCC to condemn black and discriminatory laws in Pakistan. He was arrested many times.He contested the blasphemy law in Lahore High Court and Supreme Court of Pakistan and has challenged the Hadood Ordinance. He was forced to flee to U.S. safety after the government of Pakistan registered 21 false cases of treason and blasphemy against me on February 13 1998, in Karachi, for leading a protests against the burning of Christian village Shanti Nagar by radical Muslims in Punjab.

Meanwhile, American Friends of Baluchistan condemned Islamabad for putting one of the invitees to the conference, Prof. Naela Quadri of the Baloch Republican Party on the infamous exit control list. Prof. Quadri was recently offloaded from an aeroplane while she was travelling to Manila to attend a premier Asian Pacific NGO conference on conflict zones.

"We condemn the Inter Services Intelligence and Military Intelligence for their crimes against humanity in Baluchistan," two AFB leaders Rashid Baloch and Mailk Baloch said. "Those who conspire with them will face the popular wrath of the Baluch people," the two leaders warned.

Over the years, secular Baluchistan has been turned into a killing field by both Pakistan and Iran. The Baluch are engaged in a heroic David-and-Goliath struggle to regain their lost statehood.

A PROFILE IN COURAGE

Balaach Marri was born on January 17, 1966. He was the fourth among six sons of Nawab Khair Bux Marri. He was named after the great 15th century Baloch hero Balaach Gorgej of Chaker-e-Azam era. He started his primary education at Quetta Grammar School. He was only six in 1972 when the National Awami Party government was removed forcibly at the instigation of the military. The entire area around Nawab Khair Bux Marri's house in Quetta was surrounded by military and Balaach witnessed his father being arrested by the army. The seige of the house continued for many months after the arrest.

Nawab Khair Bux Marri was jailed for the next seven years for plotting to liberate Baluchistan and during this entire period, Balaach was able to see his father only a couple of times. Nawab Khair Bux was released in 1979 and went into self-exile in Afghanistan the following year with his family and thousands of Baloch people. Balaach continued and finished his secondary education in Afghanistan.

Balaach excelled in his studies. He was a keen student who really loved his school and studies. During this period Balaach started to learn and understand politics.

He attended study circles run by his father Nawab Khair Bux that included philosophy, history of Baloch people and Balochistan and about the possible options for political struggle and emancipation. The study circles and discussions also included the analysis of international situation.

At that time a lot was happening in Afghanistan, attracting many liberal activists and intellectuals from the surrounding countries. The study circles and the interactions that Balaach attended during this period had a deep mark on his understanding of Baloch issues.

He was also believed to be probably one of the closest to Nawab Khair Bux among his sons. Balaach interacted frequently with his father, whom he used to call Ada or "Elder Brother."

After finishing his secondary education in Afghanistan, Balaach moved to Moscow to finish his higher education in communication engineering. Again, he proved to be an excellent student. Balaach was very effective in interacting with people from many different countries with revolutionary ideas and enthusiasm to bring a change. He continued to maintain many of those relations that he established during this period.

Nawab Khair Bux Marri returned to Balochistan in 1992 and Balaach Marri returned in 1993 after completing his studies. He left Balochistan at the age of 14 as an adolescent and returned as a man of 27 years.

In 2000, the entire family of Nawab Marri was implicated in the murder of Justice Marri. Nawab Khair Bux was imprisoned. Balach incidentally was at that time in London. After the arest of his father, family and friends and family advised him to stay in London.

He immediately started work to raise awareness among the international community about the plight of the Baloch people. He worked tirelessly to inform international community about Baloch sufferings. He firmly believed in the combined struggle of Baloch and other oppressed nations. He was one of the founders and first secretary general of Sindhi Baloch Forum established in 2001. The purpose of this forum was to provide common platform to Baloch and Sindhi cause at the international stage. He participated in the 2002 elections in absentia and swept the polls.

In early Nov. 2003, he went back to Balochistan. During the oath-taking ceremony he refused to take oath in Urdu and insisted on taking oath in Balochi language. He did not say the words that he shall be loyal to Pakistan, but instead he said he will be loyal to his motherland, Balochistan.

Balaach was offered seats and to join PML-Q but he turned down all the offers. Soon he realised that the Pakistani agencies were after him and filing false cases against him, thus he moved to Kahan (his ancestral town) and never attended a session of the assembly again.

He started working to develop the backbone of the current Baloch resistance. One of his greatest achievements is that he resolved long-term feuds between Marri and Bugti tribes and assisted Nawab Akbar Bugti to lead the Baloch national cause. This demonstrates his visionary and statesmanlike capabilities. He organised the Baloch struggle not on tribal but Baloch national lines.

He raised the profile of the Baloch struggle to a new level within the international community and in Pakistan. The impact was so big that on many occasions coup leader and dictator General Pervez Mushraf explicitly said Balaach Marri has to be eliminated to keep Baluchistan under Pakistan's military thumb.

Friends and political activists who were close to him described him as a perfectionist as he wanted to bring perfection in Baloch struggle