Friday, February 24, 2012

Balochistan raises some questions


 Owing to its geo-strategic and geo-economic significance, US think tanks and CIA has been covertly debating and planning about the future of Balochistan since last many years. A week after US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher chaired a congressional committee’s hearing on Balochistan, he tabled a resolution in the US Congress calling for right of self-determination for Baloch people and their ‘own sovereign country’. The proposed bill states that Balochistan is currently divided between Pakistan, Iran and Afgha­nistan with no sovereign rights of its own.
Already, maps by US authorities showing Pakistan all splintered with its Balochistan province together with Iran’s Sistan-Balochistan region becoming a Greater Balochistan were published. This Great Game reflected by the US strategic map makers has been for pretty long in full play in the province, and dollars in bagfuls and munitions have been flowing into further stirring up the insurgency and buying up the people. The nationalists in Balochistan due to their foreign association are likely to be enticed and provoked by anti-Pakistan forces/operatives of foreign intelligence agencies.
Brahamdagh Bugti who is in Afghanistan after his grandfather Nawab Akbar Bugti was killed in an encounter with the army was looked after by Afghan intelligence chief and subsequently transported to Switzerland on Afghan travel documents, where he is trying to seek asylum. He is being actively supported by undercover agents of CIA and RAW.
It is also learnt that he has been heavily funded to maintain his faction of Balochistan Liberation Army to create trouble in the province. On the other end, it is learnt that Sardar Akhtar Mengal had a meeting with Israeli and US officials. He has instructed his brother to strengthen and equip Lashkar-e-Balochistan and has instructed his party members to take part in the elections. That will demonstrate his political as well as militant clout in the province. By projecting himself as most powerful chieftain, he presumably wished to bag the biggest chunk of money doled out by donors funding Baloch movement.
The current wave of blasts and killing of MPA’s family are interlinked, which by logic, has been planned, staged and executed by either the CIA, RAW and MI-6 or in collation. To an observant mind, it appears strange that why suddenly some of the Western, US, Indian and local electronic and print media has swiftly started throwing mock on Pakistan in the name of human rights violation in Balochistan. Target killings of teachers, doctors and prominent personalities by these segments have induced a sense of insecurity.
Murder of the wife and daughter of Mir Bakhtiar Domki, member of Balochistan Assembly, has enraged the people of Balochistan. The ladies happen to be from Bugti family. It is mentionable here that Domki’s wife is the sister of Brahamdagh Bugti and granddaughter of late Akbar Bugti (Tribal Lord of Bugti Tribe). The victims were travelling in Karachi when the killers reportedly intercepted them and shot them dead at point-blank range. All this happened amid the ongoing wave of killings in Karachi. This could have been done by the segments operating against the state of Pakistan in order to create uncertainty among the masses and specifically worsen Balochistan situation.
As per set foreign agenda local lords of Balochistan immediately accused country’s intelligence agency for the murder of MPA’s family. Just after two days abduction and killing of soldiers of security forces were carried out by the foreign sponsored terrorists. Therefore we can say wife, daughter and driver of Domki and current wave of blasts are interlinked and being sponsored by foreign intelligence agencies backed by vested intelligentsia.
The questions arise, why as a nation we are failing to make public the US and other’s evil designs against the state of Pakistan? Why our think tanks, academicians, media and above all the politicians are not voicing against these conspiracies? Who kill Pakistani nationals mostly Baloch masses for the implementation of their agenda by creating hatred among the people? No outsider, whoever he may be, has any right whatsoever to meddle in our internal matters. And the Americans could only be the last to speak of human rights as their track record on this score is so foul especially if seen in the backdrop of Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The devastating exposes of Abu Gharib, Guantanamo and Bagram jails and rendition of suspects to foreign jails for torture, is known to everyone, they have no moral authority at all to pose as the champions of human rights anywhere.
Ayesha Ifrahim

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