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The Baloch youth and Balochistan crisis

Balochistan Map. Balochistan is the largest province of Pakistan [Area Wise]

The Baloch youth and Balochistan crisis

By Muhammad Akbar Notezai

In present scenario, of course, disgruntled Baloch youth is bristling with anger motto is the killing of their brethren brutally at the hands of establishment, which has alienated them from Islamabad.

They show aversion from any reconciliation process set up by the government because they have been betrayed many times. On one hand, government tries to negotiate with them, but on another hand, their ‘kill and dump’ policy is going on.

Unfortunately, abduction of youth, in Balochistan, is substantially increasing day by day, which has put their relatives behind the eight ball.They have been protesting against the abduction of their loved ones for years, but no one seems to resolve these manifold issues.

They are being shown stick usually to not stand for the fundamental rights of the Balochistans’ people, who despite living in mineral rich province, are bereft of basic necessities.

Undoubtedly, the corpses of Baloch youth is being thrown in abandoned areas of the Balochistan mercilessly by so called democratic government. If they have committed any crime, then they ought to be produced before court because court can only castigate them if they are blameworthy.

Recently, chief of PML-N Nawaz Sharif went to Karachi to meet veteran Baloch leader Sardar Attah Ullah Mengal who point blank criticized the army and entitled it ‘Punjabi army’. He further said, “The leadership is in the hands of youth, they don’t want to live in a country in which they received bodies of their brethren.” He further opined that the situation reached the point of no return.

Nawaz Sharif declared Sardar Attah Ullah Menagl’s allegations legitimate, and committed to negotiate with Baloch youth after coming in power, but many questions raise here: Will disgruntled Baloch youth negotiate with him? Will packages soothe the bereaved families of the ‘missing’ persons who tendered sacrifices for a great purpose? Will they be given their rights? It will definitely be a toughest task for him.

Subsequently, Nawaz Sharif met Talal Akbar Bugti (President of the Jamhoori Watan Party), he pledged him to give his father’s killers exemplary punishment, but he didn’t bother to ask about whereabouts of the bereaved families who are protesting for their relatives. It shows that PML-N chief merely gives priority to Baloch people for the coming election; unfortunately, he doesn’t want to pour oil on the troubled waters.

It is beyond comprehension that why is Imran Khan sympathetic to Baloch people? Does it mean that he has the support of the establishment? Well, he may have, because without support of the establishment none of them can rule in the country. That is why he discusses Balochistan’s concerns in his rallies because establishment may bring him to soothe Baloch people, especially the disgruntled Baloch youth, but they can not be tricked this time.

In fact, Imran Khan has become the leader of the turn courts who have enjoyed government with PPP, PML-Q and PML-N as well as has been the part of the military operations in Balochistan. PTI’s chief, with them, can never resolve the situation of the Balochistan.

Many of the political parties after coming in power, apologized Baloch people, then they became brutal to them. Imran Khan is going to follow their foot steps.

But Baloch people, especially Baloch youth is well acquainted with their policies that at first they apologize and then start suppressing them. Its instance is the Ex-General Parvez Musharraf’s regime and PPP’s government.

Ex General Parvez Musharraf apologized, and then launched fifth military operation in Balochistan which is still going on.

On another side, PPP did same that president Asif Ali Zardari apologized, then throwing of mutilated corpses of Balochs started, is continued up till now.

All political parties seem to be puppet in the hands of establishment which has treated Balochs and Baloch youth very badly. They are even killing educated Balochs who are raising voice for the disappearance of their brethren; therefore, it is going to alienate them more and more from Islamabad.

The political leaders had better think for the Balochistani people, who are downtrodden. They need to take stern steps for removing their sense of deprivation, because through barrel of gun they can never be brought into national mainstream.

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Ex-corps commander calls for talks on Balochistan issue

By Amanullah Kasi, DAWN

Former corps commander Lt-Gen (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch has urged the government to resolve the Balochistan issue through talks and avoid using force which is alienating the Baloch youth.

He said provinces should get the authority to exercise control over their mineral resources and the federating units should contribute a part of their revenue to the centre.

Gen Abdul Qadir, who served as governor of Balochistan under the present government, was speaking at the oath-taking ceremony of the Quetta Union of Journalists at the Idara-i-Saqafat here on Monday. Balochistan Assembly Speaker Jamal Shah Kakar was chief guest.

The retired corps commander said that Balochistan with 13 members in the 342-member National Assembly could not protect its rights.

Therefore, the provinces should be given equal representation in the assembly.

He said he did not support the army rule because it was dangerous for the country. But, he added, political groups were involved in toppling civilian governments and clearing way for military rulers.

He also accused politicians, journalists and the judiciary of encouraging army generals to run affairs of the country, and said that on every occasion politicians welcomed army generals, journalists praised the army rule and judiciary endorsed the military takeover under the “doctrine of necessity”.

“Nawab Akbar Bugti was a respectable Baloch leader and he was badly treated but no-one could deny the fact that in 1973, the PPP government launched a military operation and Nawab Bugti supported the oppression in which hundreds of innocent Balochs were killed,” he said.

He claimed that political governments had done nothing for the development of Balochistan and military governments had played a better role in this regard by launching development activities and providing facilities to people in the province.

Gen Abdul Qadir regretted that governors and chief secretaries were often imposed on the province from outside, which showed that the federal government did not trust the Baloch and Pakhtuns of the province to become constitutional heads of the province.

Similarly, he said, personnel of the Frontier Corps did not belong to Balochistan; there was no Baloch diplomat or federal secretary in Islamabad and the province had no representation in hundreds of corporations.

He said the people of the province were not against the Gwadar port but they had certain reservations about development activities in Gwadar. The government, he said, must address the reservations.

He stressed the need for changing the “system of exploitation”, saying it had created disharmony and misunderstanding between provinces and the centre.

The government should recognise the right of the provinces over their resources, he said.

Speaker Jamal said that the corrupt among the educated people – whether they were politicians, doctors, bureaucrats, judges, lawyers or civil servants – were responsible for the current state of affairs in the country. He said the illiterate were sincere people, but they had lost faith in the system and believed that the educated were the source of their problems.

 

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A LIVING SAINT ARUNDHATI ROY: The Great Indian Love Affair With Censorship Democracy’s new torchbearers would brook no lenience to ‘sedition’

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Arundhati Roy’s speech being disrupted in New Delhi recently
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The Great Indian Love Affair With Censorship
Democracy’s new torchbearers would brook no lenience to ‘sedition’
 
 

“Patriotism,” Samuel Johnson said nearly 250 years ago, “is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” These days in India, the adage can be safely applied to nationalism. There is no other explanation of the threat to arrest and try Arundhati Roy on charges of sedition for what she said at a public meeting on Kashmir, where Syed Ali Geelani too spoke. I was not there at the meeting, but I have read her moving statement defending herself afterwards. I feel both proud and humbled by it. I am a psychologist and political analyst, handicapped by my vocation; I could not have put the case against censorship so starkly and elegantly. What she has said is simultaneously a plea for a more democratic India and a more humane future for Indians.

I faced a similar situation a couple of years ago, when I wrote a column in the Times of Indiaon the long-term cultural consequences of the anti-Muslim pogrom in 2002. It was a sharp attack on Gujarat’s changing middle-class culture. I was served summons for inciting communal hatred. I had to take anticipatory bail from the Supreme Court and get the police summons quashed. The case, however, goes on, even though the Supreme Court, while granting me anticipatory bail, said it found nothing objectionable in the article. The editor of the Ahmedabad edition of the Times of India was less fortunate. He was charged with sedition.

I shall be surprised if the charges of sedition against Arundhati are taken to their logical conclusion. Geelani is already facing more than a hundred cases of sedition, so one more probably won’t make a difference to him. Indeed, the government may fall back on time-tested traditions and negotiate with recalcitrant opponents through income-tax laws. People never fully trusted the income-tax officials; now they will distrust them the way they distrust the CBI.

In the meanwhile, we have made fools of ourselves in front of the whole world. All this because some protesters demonstrated at the meeting that Arundhati and Geelani addressed! Yet, I hear from those who were present at the meeting that Geelani did not once utter the word “secession”, and even went so far as to give a soft definition of azadi. By all accounts, he put forward a rather moderate agenda. Was it his way of sending a message to the government of India? How much of it was cold-blooded public relations, how much a clever play with political possibilities in Kashmir?

We shall never know, just because most of those who pass as politicians today and our knowledge-proof babus have proved themselves incapable of understanding the subtleties of public communication. They are not literate enough to know what role free speech and free press play in an open society, not only in keeping the society open but also in serious statecraft. In the meanwhile, it has become dangerous to demand a more compassionate and humane society, for that has come to mean a serious criticism of contemporary India and those who run it. Such criticism is being redefined as anti-national and divisive. In the case of Arundhati, it is of course the BJP that is setting the pace of public debate and pleading for censorship. But I must hasten to add that the Congress looks unwilling to lose the race. It seems keen to prove that it is more nationalist than the BJP.

It is the hearts and minds of the new middle class—those who have come up in the last two decades from almost nowhere and are middle class by virtue of having money rather than middle-class values—that both parties are after. This new middle class wants to give meaning to their hollow life through a violent, nineteenth-century version of European-style ‘nationalism’. They want to prove—to others as well as to themselves—that they have a stake in the system, that they have arrived. They are afraid that the slightest erosion in the legitimacy of their particularly nasty version of nationalism will jeopardise their new-found social status and political clout. They are willing to fight to the last Indian for the glory of Mother India as long as they themselves are not conscripted to do so and they can see, safely and comfortably in their drawing rooms, Indian nationalism unfolding the way a violent Bombay film unfolds on their television screens. 

Hence the bitterness and intolerance, not only towards Arundhati Roy, but also towards all other spoilsports who defy the mainstream imagination of India and its nationalism. Even Gandhians fighting for their cause non-violently are not spared. Himangshu Kumar’s ashram at Dantewada has been destroyed not by the Maoists but by the police. I would have thought that writers and artists would be exempt from censorship in an open society. As we well know, they are not. The CPI(M) and the Congress ganged up to shut up Taslima Nasreen by saying she was not an Indian. As though if you are a non-Indian in India, your rights don’t have to be governed by the Constitution of India!

 

 
  Democracy has created a middle class, most of whom are not adequately socialised to norms vital to creativity and innovativeness in an open society.  
 

The trend of harassing political dissenters for their “seditious” writings and actions started early. It started with the breakdown of consensus on national interest in the mid-’70s. Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency and introduced serious censorship and surveillance, she claimed, to protect national interest, democracy and development. (She had foresight, for though she included development in her list, it took another two decades for the consensus on development to break down.) The difference between the 1970s and the first decade of the 21st century is that millions are now acting out their dissent and speaking out of their radical differences with mainstream public opinion. The whole tribal movement—wrongly called the Naxal movement, because the Naxals have taken advantage of the tribal problem—is an example of this.

 

There are times when a national consensus is neither possible nor desirable. The best one can do is to contain the violence and negotiate with those who act out their dissent. That may not be easy in the case of the Kashmiris because their trust in us is now close to zero. Psychologically speaking, the Kashmiris are already outside India and will remain there for at least two generations. The random killings, rapes, torture and the other innovative atrocities have brutalised their society and turned them into a traumatised lot. If you think this is too harsh, read between the lines of psychotherapist Shobhna Sonpar’s report on Kashmir.

What is it about the culture of Indian politics today that it allows us to opt for a version of nationalism that is so brutal, self-certain and chauvinist? Have we been so brutalised ourselves that we have become totally numb to the suffering around us? What is this concept of Indian unity that forces us to support police atrocities and torture? How can a democratic government, knowing fully what its police, paramilitary and army is capable of doing, resist signing the international covenant on torture? How can we, sixty years after independence, countenance encounter deaths? Could these practices have survived so long and become institutionalised if we had a large enough section of India’s much-vaunted middle class fully sensitive to the demands of democracy?

The answers to these questions are not pleasant. We know things could not have come to this pass if those who are or should be alert to these issues in the intelligentsia, media, artistic community had done their job. Here I think the changing nature of the Indian middle class has not been a help.

We are proud of our democracy—the consensus on democracy still survives in India—but unaware of a crucial paradox in which we are caught. The democratic process has created a new middle class, a large section of which is not adequately socialised to democratic norms in sectors not vital to the survival of democratic politics but vital to creativity and innovativeness in an open society. The thoughtless, non-self-critical ultra-nationalism, intolerant of anyone opposed to the mainstream public opinion, is shared neither by the poor nor the more settled middle class. Ordinary Indians, accustomed as they are to living with mind-boggling diversity, social and cultural, have no problem with political diversity. Neither does the settled middle class.

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, for instance, wrote an essay savaging the middle class in mid-nineteenth century. We had to study this in our school and it has remained a prescribed text in Bengal for more than a century. Today you cannot introduce such a text in much of India without probably precipitating a political controversy and demands for censorship.

Recently, at a lecture organised by the Information Commission of India, I claimed that the future of censorship and surveillance in India was very bright. It’s not only the government that loves it but a very large section of middle-class India too would like to silence writers, artists, playwrights, scholars and thinkers they do not like. In their attempt to become a globalised middle class, they are willing to change their dress, food habits and language but not their love for censorship. We should thank our stars that there still are people in our midst—editors, political activists, NGOs, lawyers and judges—to whom freedom of speech is neither a value peripheral to the real concerns of Indian democracy nor a bourgeois virtue but a clue to our survival as a civilised society.

 

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Zardari’s Corrupt Mafia’s schedule for hanging :To be performed instantly before their Chacha comes to their rescue

 

Public Accountability, Due Process, and Exemplary Punishment

Schedule for Instant Public Hangings

a la Z.A.Bhutto responsible for the current cataclysmic situation prevailing in Pakistan

 

 

A schedule for ending Pakistan’s nightmare

1. Gilani in 2012 (earlier the better, earlier precedence available a la Z.A.Bhutto) 
2. Kayani in 2012 (fall would work) 
3. Nawaz in 2013 (early in spring would be good) 
3. Zardari in 2013 (300 lashes first for him to feel the misery of 180 million people, late summer would be ok) 
4. Altaf in 2013 (may take time to bring him back, commando action to whisk him to Pakistan) 
5. All cabinet members (past and present) within a year 
6. All MNA’s first and then MPA’s (spread over the next two years) 
Schedule permitting, all corrupt bureaucrats wihin three years. 
List can be modified as needed.

 

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PAKISTAN’S DREAM TEAM – DR.QADIR, PRESIDENT, IMRAN KHAN PRIME MINISTER, AND DR.TANVIR AHMED KHAN FOREIGN MINISTER


Imran Khan for future Pakistan Prime Minister!

Imran Khan is most sincere, positive, visionary and couregeous leader of Pakistan!

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  1. Why is Imran Khan so important in Pakistan Politics scene…even though he has no presence in Parliament.

I wouldn’t say I am a very keen observer of messy unpredictable affair that is Pakistan Politics, but I do keep my eyes open for interesting developments happening. In particular Imran Khan’s rugged induction and journey into Pakistan politics. As a follower of his cricketing prowess he so consistently performed playing for Pakistan cricket team,naturally me like many other Imran’s fans keep an eagle eye in his political affairs and innings.

Ok admittingly even the great man himself may admits, the journey has been a rollercoaster ride and not much results to show for all efforts he has put into political campaigning, One has to admire the man’s fighting spirit and positive character. For a man who could easily have been sitting in relaxing and enjoying all the creature comforts the world has to offer because of his fame and international respect he acclaims, it is more so admirable that this Pathan man continues to fight for betterment of his people, realizing that many dangers and pitfalls await him in the future.

This Pathan fighter I sometimes feel is playing the role of modern day Fakir of Ipi by the name Mirza Ali Khan. Fakir Of Ipi by the way was a gureilla fighter who along with his small army possessing most simple weopons, gave the British the scare of their lifetime. He was a very proud freedom fighter who could not stand injustices of British tryanny in the then NorthWest Frontier and rebelled against the powers who despite much greater armoury strength could niether subdue him or catch him.

Imran Khan also is battling and fighting against the injustices imposed on the common man of Pakistan, almost single handedly against a corrupt and mafia ridden Pakistan political set up. The ouster of Musharraf,The campain to seperate legal from executive meaning giving the judges its important place and value in society, the lessening of Pakistan behaving like American puppets and instilling in many Pakistan people that there is still hope is all that can be attributed to Imran khan. The irony is that he initiates these movements only for opportunists like Musharraf and Sharif to steal his thunder. Imran Khan and his party were the pioneer of the current resurgence of Pakistani justice movement yet its Nawaz Sharif who very late in the day joins the bandwagon. The movement to rid the country of its corruption was also campaign started by Imran khan early on in his political innings, yet Musharraf stole that sloagan without ever any measurable results.

So what I am saying here is that Imran khan even though outside the Parliment, yet his role play as an opposition has been far more effective than the opposition sitting in the parliment. Thats just the way of Pakistan politics where a sincere visionary man gets no rewards yet the corrupt and selfish are holding powers when they perhaps are not even qualified to be company secretaries. Because he is fighting on ideological grounds and vision for just and corrupt free progressive Pakistan rather than selfish reasons like all the others are, this makes him the most important and dangerous man in Pakistan politics.

 

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Imran offers Dr Qadir to become patron of PTI

By: INP | April 16, 2012, 9:07 pm 
Imran offers Dr Qadir to become patron of PTI

 

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan on Monday offered renowned nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadir Khan to become his party’s patron.

This offer was made by Imran Khan during a meeting with the nuclear scientist which lasted for an hour.

The two national heroes talked about terrorism, law and order situation, price hike, joblessness and other challenges faced by the country.

Speaking on the occasion, Imran Khan said that the people like Dr Abdul Qadir Khan should join PTI for the solution of national problems.

Dr AQ Khan said that politicians must talk about national issues instead of personal issues. He was of the view that it is necessary to get rid of politics of corruption to find solution of the problems.

 

 

 

 

 

May 28, 2012 

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chief Imran Khan Sunday said his party was going to file a petition tomorrow in the Supreme Court against National Assembly Speaker Dr. Fehmida Mirza’s ruling on Prime Minister Gilani’s conviction by the apex court.

 

Addressing a massive public meeting here, Imran Khan said Gilani was no longer a prime minister of the country on moral grounds and that people would come out on streets against the those who were trying to destroy the Supreme Court for protecting their corruption.

 

“PTI will install a system of justice in the country just the way our Holy Prophet (PBUH), the greatest leader of Muslims, did as a first step to bring an end to atrocities,” Imran Khan promised the charged crowd waving PTI flags.

 

The PTI chief during his speech punctuated with briefly played party songs, said the days of cruelties were numbered as his party was on its way to rebuilding a new corruption-free Pakistan where law andjustice would prevail.

 

He said no investment was not flowing to Pakistan because of bad governance, rampant corruption and theft and promised that PTI would get the overseas Pakistanis to invest in the country.

 

“PTI will improve governance to pave way for investment to come to the country,” Imran Khan said.

 

He regretted that people of Pakistan had to pay for power theft by buying expensive electricity and promised to end price hike after coming to power.

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افسوس آهي جو ماضي ۾ عدليه ۽ پارليامينٽ مارشل لا کي تحفظ ڏنو، ڪمزور جمهوريت آمريت کان بهتر آهي: چيف جسٽس

 

 

 

 

افسوس آهي جو ماضي ۾ عدليه ۽ پارليامينٽ مارشل لا کي تحفظ

ڏنو، ڪمزور جمهوريت آمريت کان بهتر آهي: چيف جسٽس


لنڊن(مانيٽرنگ ڊيسڪ) سپريم ڪورٽ جي چيف جسٽس جسٽس افتخار محمد چوڌري چيو آهي ته افسوس سان چوڻو ٿو پوي ته ماضي ۾ عدليه ۽ پارليامينٽ مارشل لا کي تحفظ ڏنو، ڪمزور جمهوريت به مارشل لا کان بهتر آهي، لنڊن ۾ وڪيلن کي خطاب ڪندي هن چيو ته سال 2006 ۾ اسٽيل ملز جو سودو 22 اربن رپين ۾ ڪيو ويو، جن پارٽين سان اهو سودو ٿيو، انهن جو وجود ئي نه هو، اسٽيل ملز تي فيصلو اچڻ بعد ئي عدليه خلاف مزاحمت شروع ڪئي، هن چيو ته ڊيل شفاف نه هجي ته اسان کي دخل اندازي جو اختيار حاصل آهي، ڇو ته اهو پئسو عوام جو آهي ۽ انهن کان ٽيڪس جي صورت ۾ وصول ڪيو وڃي ٿو.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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