Gwadar Security Forces Check Post Attacked by "Foreign" sponsored elements

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On 21 July 2012, Foreign Sponsored elements are hit a security check post located in Pishukan area of Gwadar. In this militant attack, six security personnel were killed and four others injured when unknown terrorists fired rockets at security. The local administration and Levies personnel reached the scene and shifted the injured to hospital. The security forces cordoned off the area after the attack and launched search operation to arrest the culprits.

Notably, sudden increase in blast waves, militancy in Karachi and resumption of drone attacks just after restoration of NATO supply, beheading of soldiers after abduction from FATA, interference in Baluchistan, killing of Pakistani soldiers on Chenab River Bank, raiding under training security elements in Lahore and now attacking security check post in Gwadar Port (Baluchistan) on 21 July 2012, are clear cut indications of involvement of hands in militancy in Pakistan. All these subversive activities are being controlled by CIA, RAW, MI-6 and Mossad. Afghan National Security Council is providing and facilitating CIA, RAW and other intelligence agencies for launching their agents in Pakistani area. U.S. and her allies are working for grater Baluchistan. They are interested in causing instability in Baluchistan through terrifying locals and settlers.

As per set foreign agenda local lords of Baluchistan immediately allege country's intelligence agency for any murder and abduction of innocent Baloch. Whereas, it has been found that abduction of people for ransom and killing them have become the routine of daily life in Baluchistan. Few days back, honourable Chief Justice visited Baluchistan for hearing of missing person case. He has also shown concern over abduction and killing of innocent persons.

It is suggested that Chief Justice should take some more visit of Baluchistan for punishing the terrorists. Involvement of foreign hands particularly of Americans, British's and Indian cannot be denied since prevailing adverse security situation and unrest of Baluchistan directly linked to international politics due to the development and operation of strategically important Gwadar Port. It would also be correct in saying that intensification of current terrorism throughout the country is by design, since our political system is getting strength day by day.

Moreover, tenure of ruling elite is almost over and the country is heading towards transitional phase of exchange of powers. Thus, anti-Pakistan elements are more interested in instability of political system while sabotaging the peaceful transaction of the system. In fact, the current blast wave was planned, staged and executed by CIA, RAW and MI-6. Some of the Western, US, Indian and local electronic and print media started throwing slush on own country on the name of violations of human rights in Baluchistan. I would like to suggest to the honourable, Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo motu actions on the murder of soldiers rather than just pulling security and intelligence agencies on the name of missing persons. He should also take suo motu against Baloch lords who are playing in foreign hands, inviting CIA and RAW militancy to carry out in Baluchistan.

In most of the cases the act of killing is being done by RAW and CIA simply with the aim of fuelling militancy of Baluchistan. Anyhow, this adventure of maligning and alleging country's security forces and intelligence agency should be stopped since it is strengthening the hands of foreign intelligence agencies and damaging the country's solidarity. US and Indian joint venture is aiming at (1) supporting rebels and Baloch leaders for storming terrorism in Pakistan (2) Incorporating Iranian and Afghanis' Baloch areas in purposed Greater Baluchistan (3) Declaring Pakhtun region as Al-CIAda dominated areas and targeting Gas pipeline.

In short, there is a need of resolving the issue politically but at the same time foreign agents busy in fomenting terrorism, abducting and killing innocent people should also be dealt with iron hands. However, true leaders should be approached and given chances for ruling the province and establishment the peace. The prostitute Media pundit and so called anchors should not try to fuel the issue deliberately and the sold-out Media should stop encouraging the anti-Pakistan elements operating in Baluchistan.

By Zaheerul Hassan
Edited by PCF Web desk
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Pakistan Army launches FM radio in violence-hit areas

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ISLAMABAD – The military has launched a new project ‘FM 96 International Radio Network’ in the violence-hit Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Fata and Balochistan, a move described as ‘community service’ but being criticised by many, reported BBC on Tuesday.

According to the broadcast, the basic objection raised is that the army is trying to establish an institution parallel to the Radio Pakistan and prominent analyst Ayesha Siddiqa says it is a dangerous commercial venture of Pakistan Army.

The BBC says after the army’s investment in banking, cement, sugar mills, transport, fertilizer, land, construction and other sectors through its related organisations, the company, named as FM 96 International Radio Network, has been made subsidiary of Shalimar Recording and Broadcasting Company being run by the Pakistan Television.

The transmission of the radio network managed by the army can be heard in Malakand Division, Fata except Orakzai Agency and various parts of Balochistan - Quetta, Panjgur, Khuzdar and others – in Urdu, Pashtu, Balochi and Barahvi languages.

Major chunk of the programmes are related to music, culture and national songs, while news and current affair has so far received a limited slot. Interestingly, Indian songs are not relayed by the Radio Pakistan, but they get ample space in the army-run FM network.

The head of the project is an in-service colonel of the military’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). According to Colonel Aqeel Malik, the initiative is not a commercial venture, but a community service project. He added that no advertisements could be obtained from the insurgency-hit areas.

Aqeel told BBC that the army had shut down the illegal FM radio stations operated in Malakand Division by militant chief Fazlullah, because they had been used to attract locals towards terrorism coated in the name of jihad. During the military operation in Swat, it had been observed that there was need to start FM radio service to provide entertainment and information to the people, badly affected by violence.

The army colonel further said the radio network had been set up after an approval given by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, adding that the reports about any foreign funding were totally wrong.

When asked why the army did launched the project in the presence of the state-run Radio Pakistan which has necessary experience and technical expertise, his reply was that media was mushrooming in Pakistan and it was necessary establish more organisations to convey the state’s message to people.

“21st century is an information century, during which more organisations will be set up to promote the state interests.” Although, Aqeel said that the network would be expanded, but he did not give any details. On the other hand, the BBC has a document which reveals that the plan envisages establishing 44 radio stations under the army-sponsored network. 

Some analysts are saying that the army is attempting an institution parallel to Radio Pakistan, which will face drastic effects because of the venture, a view rejected by Colonel Aqeel.

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Wiser approach needed for Balochistan

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In 1948, while addressing Quetta Municipality, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah said that, “you know, I take special interest in Balochistan because, this province is my special responsibility, therefore I want that it should play its role in Pakistan affairs like other provinces.”

Unfortunately, this great leader died in the same year and his vision could not be implemented. Area wise, it is half of Pakistan, but forming 5% of the total population. The leadership, following the Quaid, did not pay worthwhile attention towards the affairs of the province, thus there remained deterioration of the situation with each passing day. There have been grievances of the locals, turned into insurgencies and rebellions in the province, but use of force was considered the only option to quell all, rather addressing the causes.

The successive governments and their functionaries have been dealing with the Baloch issue without consulting the real stakeholders, the people and national acumen. Generally, governments have their own way of doing the things with vested political interests and priorities as per their conveniences’. On the issue of Balochistan, traditionally, there has been single handed and bureaucratic approach adopted by successive governments to resolve the issue without knowing its dynamics. Indeed, there have been no worthwhile efforts at national or provincial level to resolve this complicated issue.

 It is very encouraging that the literate class of Pakistan has finally realized the significance of national issues and started organizing debate and conference to resolve them. In this connection, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) organized a national conference on Balochistan on May 26, 2012. SCBA had invited the leadership from all political and religious parties in this national conference. In the conference, entitled, “Balochistan Issue and its Resolution,” the participants of the conference called for “taking on board all segments in the province over all policies and development projects, besides, redressing their genuine demands.”

Indeed, there is a need for the national mobilization to understand and address the national issues of Pakistan in the best national interests of the state of Pakistan. Political parties have their own agendas and evaluate the issues from their own particular perspective. Generally, there is a point scoring and relegation of the other party’s viewpoint. There remains a clear difference between what is said in the meetings and conferences and how the implementation takes place. Therefore, there is requirement for the dedication, clarity of the objectives and over and above the sincerity to resolve the issues, leaving behind the personnel or political party agendas.

At the conclusion, the conference adopted a fifteen-point resolution, demanding an end to the deprivations of the Baloch people and asking for an end to the military operations from the province. Whereas, various leaders from political and religious parties gave their own viewpoints for the resolution of Balochistan, Dr Abdul Malik, President of the National Party stressed the need for granting rights to the Baloch people. He said that, “Balochistan is an integral part of Pakistan and we have to find out solution by dialogue with all the stakeholders. This indeed was the most important aspect of the Balochistan issue, highlighted by a nationalist Baloch.

Between the lines, Dr Abdul Malik, has stressed the need for understanding the Baloch issue realistically, rather making political statements. His wordings were loud and absolutely clear. It is a fact that, in the entire history of Pakistan, Baloch people have never been given their basic rights. They are just the Baloch and have been used as tools both by national and provincial leaders. They have been deprived of basic necessities of life. They are Baloch and they are Pakistani, so must be given what the constitution of Pakistan has authorized to grant them.

Indeed, as practised during the British era, in the tribal society of Balochistan, the sardars acted as agents of the British crown and kept the people under suppression and oppression. They did not allow the basic right to the locals. The locals became habitual of this pattern of living. They even continued these repressive policies after the decolonization and independence. Whenever, an attempt was made to curtail the powers of sardars, they would rebel and tried to violate against the federation of Pakistan by mobilizing the suppressed Baloch community.

The poor people of Balochistan would not know, as to why they have been asked to take arms for fighting, except that, it is the order of Sardars. It is generation after generation that such a practice is continuing in the Baloch dominated areas of Balochistan province. Today in the rural Balochistan, there are no basic civic facilities for the common Baloch. School and colleges are scant, resultantly; the youth of the province is deprived of the basic education, a necessity for an award society. There is a lack of hospitals and medical centers in the province; therefore, treatment of the people once they fell ill has been a real issue.

These deprivations are not accidental, but deliberate and planned. After all, all areas of the province have elected representatives, and in case of Baloch MPs, over 90% are ministers too. Then there are senators, MNAs, and Federal Ministers from the Balochistan, all have some responsibilities towards their people and areas. Generally, there has been no dearth of the funds, issued for the province, particularly in last two decades. Then, there was no reason that local development in Balochistan could have been compromised. It was bunch of same sky rocketing politicians, who were making hue and cry in the conference, without questioning, as who is responsible for this backwardness of the people of Balochistan.

Some of the participants of the conference targeted the law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies. The most critical were; PML (N) leader, Main Nawaz Sharif and Asma Jehangir, the former President of SCBA. Both made provocative statements and Main Nawaz went ahead by saying that, Baloch has the right to rebel. He said, “The Baloch have a right to rebel why shouldn’t they, after all that they have been put through?” The statement indeed, depicts the originator as an obtuse personality, who can do anything for his cheap popularity.

Promoting and encouraging violence and rebellion is a felony in itself. Should a leader with national stature do it, is a big question mark? Accusing intelligence agencies and LEAs in Pakistan is the easiest thing. Even a common man on the streets would do it quite conveniently. It has become a fashion for people like Hamid Mir, Asma Jehangir and Mian Sahib to criticise the institutions. No one questions these people’s credibility of these accusations and their linkages elsewhere. After all BAL Thackeray, RAW and CIA has no love with Pakistan, who have linkages with people in Pakistan to promote their cause.

As a matter of fact, it has become rhetoric in Pakistan, that ‘agencies are doing this and that’. Nevertheless, no fact-finding body has been designated by the Governments; federal and provincial to know the real hands behind all these acts of killings and disappearances. After all someone should think, who is the real beneficiary of the Baloch killings and disappearances? What advantage intelligence agencies and FC or any other LEA would get from these acts. On the one hand, some leaders, so-called human rights activists and media persons, otherwise quite generously following the global format (script), should not know the global agenda.

Being at the crossroads of the history, we must revisit the Quaid’s vision about the Province and reassess the issue through a nationalistic approach, leaving behind the personnel agendas. We must leave behind the politics of accusations and adopt a new approach’ the people centric approach to resolve the issue. The foremost requirement would be to know, who is doing this all to destabilize Pakistan. Then, there is an immediate need to provide basic facilities to the deprived people of the Balochistan. To start with, basic health and education facilities should get preference.

By Dr Raja Muhammed Khan

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Thinking logically on Balochistan

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After six decades of independence, the debate should not focus on whether Balochistan or part(s) of this geographically largest province of Pakistan willingly joined the state of Pakistan at the time of its independence or there was a forced accession. Rather, the debate should focus on the ways and means of addressing the grievances of Baloch people by those, occupying the driving seats in the Federal capital, Islamabad as well as in the province of Balochistan. Historians, writers, scholars and above all, the media should play their part in bringing out the nation from these worthless debates and discussions. Since the none-issue was irrationally puffed-up by some feudal (Baloch sardars), over the years, mainly because of their personnel gains, therefore, the global players, exploited the situation to their best interests and against the state of Pakistan.


Owing to its strategic location, the conspiracies against Balochistan are dates back to pre-partition. Indeed, this landmass of Pakistan joins various regions of Asia, hence got the attention of international actors at all time. Apart from the covert conspiracies against Pakistan over Balochistan by some global spying networks, the US lawmaker Dana Rohrabacher has very recently assigned for himself the role of frontline runner to fight the Baloch case in the US. It is very surprising that, the research of Rohrabacher could found after sixty-five years of the independence of Pakistan, that, “the Baloch Khanate of Kalat was founded which functioned as an independent, sovereign country.” What he could not research that some US states also declared their independence, until reunited at the end of US civil war. We must say that he is a very scrupulous researcher, or else, a buffoon, latecomer, trying to catch the flight that has already took off.


To put the record straight, particularly for those readers who may have misconception that, how Balochistan became part of Pakistan, I do not find any logic in these unfounded demands and debates at this point of time. Nevertheless, the reality is that, the Khan of Kalat Mir Ahmed Yar Khan, who initially decided to keep the Khanate as independent state unconditionally acceded with Pakistan, on the request of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. However, the Instrument of Accession was signed on 27th March 1948. Earlier, other parts of the Balochistan decided to become part of Pakistan through a referendum held on June 3, 1947, under the British Government, as done elsewhere in the united India. The fifty-four members of the Shahi Jirga, and Quetta Municipality voted to join Pakistan.

While analyzing the Baloch history, one would learn that, under the sardari system, the people of Balochistan had no voice of their own, thus practically remained subservient class. Deliberately, these Baloch masses were kept economically backward and illiterate by these sardars. In the past, whenever, these sardars had differences with Federal Government, would use the remote and educationally backward masses against the state of Pakistan. On their part, the successive federal governments too did not play a part to change the status quo in the province. Owing to the typical nature of the tribal system, these governments allowed the sardars to continue exploiting the Baloch masses and federal governments too.


The current situation in the province indeed, is a sum total of the follies of the past rulers of the country. It is because of their deliberate overlooking of the socio-economic condition of masses that the situation has worsened to this level. Federation maintained a policy of pleasing the sardars and ignoring the masses, constituting the bulk of the province indeed. In the process, the sardars exploited both as per their convenience. Even today, those masses being used by sardars to challenge the writ of the government are unaware of the motives behind. They act as per the ordain of sardars. Mostly the insurgents are the paid murderers of the sardars and now international players too. Even after having known all the facts, those at the helm of affairs are keeping mum over the extraordinarily changing situation.

Indeed, neither someone in the Province or at the Federal level is ready to address the real cause, as if someone else will do it for them. There has developed an environment, where everyone shifts the blame to another. As disclosed by a minister of Balochistan, some of the ministers and MPs are involved in the abduction cases of the Baloch masses. The disclosure is an eye opener for everyone that, those whom masses elected as their representatives are involved in the heinous crimes of Baloch abduction and human smuggling.


No Government in the Federation or in the province has ever tried to seriously understand and resolve the socio-economic problems of the province. There have been announcements of packages for the socio-economic uplift of the province, but, practically those were only for the political consumptions. Aaghaaz-a-Haqooq Balochistan was a huge political stunt of the incumbent Government, whose implementation has not been felt in any part of the province as yet. This project remained on papers only and sufferance of the people is a matter of routine without a change. In the previous governments too, there have been such political gimmicks without practical manifestation. I am afraid that, if still sardars are paid the funds as an appeasing policy, that means we have not learnt anything from our past history.


Then there are the cases of the missing persons. It is very easy to blame Frontier Corps Balochistan, Pak Army, ISI and other law enforcement agencies as responsible for those, but very difficult to prove that. This indeed is a global format, followed by domestic media, some analysts and writers. Then, there have been discovery of mutilated and disfigured bodies of some Baloch missing persons. Even for those, sub-nationalists, media and some analysts are bashing these LEAs. Astonishingly, no one has ever bothered to think logically that, after all, who is the beneficiary of this entire game? What advantages these acts would bring for the security forces, except bringing bad name. Should an organization or agency would like to earn bad name for it. Surely, not. Should national and provincial LEAs create hatred for themselves? This is a big question mark.


Whereas those involved in various crimes must be dealt as per the law of the land, the issue of missing persons needs serious inquiry and investigations by an impartial body, rather involving into a blame game. After all, FC, Army and ISI are for the security of Pakistan and its people. How can they exceed the limits and involve themselves in extra-judicial killing of Baloch people. Let us think logically, find out the conspiracies behind, the beneficiaries of this entire campaign and above all, the motives behind. Failure to these, we will keep wandering in the darkness in search of invisible light across the tunnel.

By Dr. Raja Mohammed Khan

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