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| Mir Ahmed Yar Khan of Qalat along with Quaid |
A
common perception about poor situation of law and order and terrorism in
Baluchistan is that it is due to underdevelopment, military operations, death
of Nawab Akbar Bugti and utilization of resources of Baluchistan. A vital role
has been played by our liberal, pro-Indian journalists and politicians in
spreading this perception. Our progressive and liberals blame Pakistan army for
the whole situation and our politicians support these baseless allegations in
order to prove them innocent. However, on 7 July 2013, while addressing 23rd
session of UN’s Human Rights Commission, Mehran Bugti claimed that the reason
behind the liberation movement of Baluchistan is that in March 1948 Baluchistan
was forced to merge into Pakistan through military power and afterwards
representatives of USA and UK also supported this allegation. This proves one
thing that at least whatever our media, India and international media has been
deceiving the international community and Pakistani nation that target killing
and terrorism are reaction of deprivation of Baluchistan and military
operations there; on the other hand this also proves the Indian involvement in
terrorism in Pakistan and support of USA and UK to terrorists as well in order
to blackmail Pakistan for their damn interests.
If
we look at the history of Baluchistan after partition in 1947, it becomes
evident that militancy in Baluchistan started in March 1948 when Khan of Qalat
Mir Ahmed Yar Khan signed deal for accession with Pakistan and his brother Mir
Abdul Karim Khan rejected this accession, announced accession of Qalat with
Afghanistan with the support of Ghaus Bux Bazanju and other supporting tribes
and started Gorilla attacks on state and military installations. Khan of Qalat
had not decided accession with Pakistan within a day, in this regard Founder of
Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah met twice with Khan of Qalat from
January 1948 to February 1948 and satisfied all of his concerns. After these
negotiations 7th March 1948 was fixed as the day for signing
ceremony, however when Khan of Qalat did not arrive Karachi due to pressure
from Afghanistan and from his supporters, Quaid expressed displeasure over this
breach of promise.
In
order to pressurize Khan of Qalat, Ghaus Bux Bazanju said that he does not accession
to Pakistan as being a separate state, on the same principle Iran and
Afghanistan should also accede to Pakistan. Quaid was aware that India was
behind the pressure over Khan of Qalat who was utilizing Afghanistan for her
damn plans. Khan of Qalat was also that accession of his state with Afghanistan
is unnatural and would result in seclusion of his subjects. So he signed deal
for accession with Pakistan on 27 March 1948 at Karachi. This was the time when
the militancy started in Baluchistan and when terrorist activities of Mir Abdul
Karim Khan grew intolerable a military operation was initiated against him, he
was arrested and imprisoned. In this way first operation in Baluchistan was
conducted in 1948 as Pakistan had no other option except army against
terrorists, equipped with latest weapons of that time. At that time neither
there was any problem of missing persons or mutilated corpses; the whole
dispute was of separation of state of Qalat which was surrounded by Baluchistan
a part of Pakistan since partition.
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| Baloch Insurgents armed with foreign weapons |
As
long as Abdul Karim Khan was under arrest peace prevailed in Baluchistan. In
1955 on the request of Khan of Qalat and on the condition of Abdul Karim Khan
acceptin Qalat as part of Pakistan and staying away from militancy he was
released from the prison. After remaining peaceful for a year Abdul Karim
started militancy again, before starting his treachery he negotiated with many
tribes but they rejected support to him. However, Mari, Zahri tribe under the
leadership of Mir Gohar Khan and Nawab Naurez Khan not only accepted to join
militancy but went a step ahead of the terrorism what today’s BLA is doing
while targeting Pakistan armed forces and defense installations. In Quetta and
other districts, Punjabi inhabitants living there for more than 4 generations
became target of this organized terrorism, sabotage of railways became was
common and during gorilla attacks over army convoys latest of that times were
used; so this question arose at that time as well that who is supplying these
millitatns or terrorists with latest weapons and training?
At
last in 1958, a military operation was conducted in which Nawab Naurez Khan
along with his two sons was arrested while other leadership of treachery
succeeded in flying to safe havens in Afghanistan. Both sons of Nawab Naurez
Khan were sentenced to death for murder of dozens innocent citizens; after
their execution Nawab Naurez Khan also died in the prison due to heart attack. This
is a bitter reality that after 1958 Military operation in Baluchistan law and
order and peace was restored in Baluchistan for some time. Many Baloch Sardars
joined govt., got funds in the name of development of Baluchistan that were
deposited in their personal accounts in spite of being utilized for development
projects in Baluchistan. Govt. of Pakistan turned a deaf year to this
corruption in order to ensure peace in the province.
After
1958, in 1971 the movement of treachery in Baluchistan once again started in
Baluchistan with the support of India, Afghanistan and Soviet Union. Militants
fighting in the Qalat were brain washed that with little struggle they would be
able break apart whole Baluchistan from Pakistan and establish a communist state
there. Look at the irony of the fate that those Sardars who had complete
control over the fate of the Baloch public, who deprived public from
infrastructure and education by utilizing funds for their personal use, were
showing the dreams of socialism to Baloch people to make them fuel for
militancy against state. In short another military operation was conducted in
1971 with the support of many other local tribes except Bugti. After this
operation skirmishes with foreign terrorists and conspiracies continued to be
hatched but recent wave of violence, and external terrorism started when
General Pervez Musharaf signed deal with China for construction of Gwadar port.
Here I would like to mention that our present elected rulers are now trying to
steal the credit of Gwadar port by quoting example of Pak-China friendship in
the form of 6 lane motorway from China to Gwadar; in their previous rule they
did nothing to develop Gwadar port except giving statements and photo sessions.
The
development of Gwadar port was unacceptable for our neighboring countries
except time tested friend China; however, India was most worried in this regard
as she was given a prime role to play in Afghanistan by USA (due to her
personal incapabilities) after US invasion of Afghanistan. Look at the strange
coincidence that a Baloch militant started treason by killing Chinese friends
working on Gwadar port on 3 May 2004 while in October 2004, 2 Chinese engineers
working on the construction of a dam in South Waziristan were murdered by TTP
foreign funded terrorists in the name of imposition of Islam. Rapidly this
series of terrorism spread out to those parts of the country from which the
motorway from China to Gwadar port has to be constructed.
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| District Wise Division of Baluchistan |
The
situation in Baluchistan deteriorated to limits when on 15 December 2005,
terrorists targeted a Helicopter near Kohlu in which IG Frontier Constabulary
Major General Shujaat Zameer Dar along
with Deputy IG Brigadier Salim Nawaz was present and both officers got injured.
On this terrorist attack when govt. of Pakistan decided to crush the terrorists
some of our pro-militant writers opposed this operation and even wrote that what
has happened if few (foreign) youngsters (terrorists) have fired crackers on
armed forces personnel. After such great violence and terrorism when China
succeeded in completing the construction of Gwadar port and started work on
Karakoram Phase-II project, the supporters of BLA and terrorism in Pakistan got
unveiled when BLA established an exiled govt. in Jerusalem, Capital of Israel. This
announcement was made by BLA terrorists on their website on 28 April 2008 in
which suggested map and flag of Greater Baluchistan was presented as well. What
a coincidence (or similarity of conspirators), map of Greater Baluchistan was similar
to the map which often had been presented by Wali Khan and his party for
Greater Pakhtunistan. The leader of exiled govt. was declared Mir Suleman
Dawood, Khan of Qalat. He established Council for Independent Baluchistan in
Europe on 12 August 2009, and this council with the American and British
support is not only projecting the propaganda of Separation movement of
Baluchistan to cover up terrorists but also involved in provision of weapons,
training, planning and execution of terrorism in Baluchistan. So with the safe
haven in Europe and support of European governments, terrorists target innocent
students, doctors and nurses providing them medical treatment and patients.
But
enough is enough now! This series of external terrorism and interference should
be stopped now. But this is only possible when we will get united, identify the
enemy behind these terrorists and stop their way; all units of federation will
unite and respect each other’s rights, priority of right over provincial
resources to local public, and abide by this rule honestly. But all this is not
possible until and unless we do not identify external hands behind this
terrorism because these are the hands that making us fight with each-other on
the linguistic, local or provincial basis…
Written by Khalid Baig,
Published in Daily Nawa-i-Waqt,
Dated 08 July 2013.
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