After passing years of self-imposed exile in London, President of the
Balochistan National Party (BNA), Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal who returned to
Pakistan has external and internal connections with the anti-state elements of
the country. During the hearing in the Supreme Court of Pakistan in relation to the case
of missing persons and deteriorating law and order situation in the province of
Balochistan on September 27, Sardar Akhtar Mengal distorted the facts in his
statement, while adding similar allegations against the security agencies of the
country, which have continuously been leveling by the anti-Pakistan
elements.
Giving a six-point solution to the Balochistan issue, Sardar Akhtar Mengal
suggested to the Supreme Court that all death squads operating under the
supervision of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) or Military Intelligence (MI)
in the province should be disbanded. He said that all missing persons which are
under the custody of intelligence agencies should be produced before a court of
law, and Baloch political parties should be allowed to resume their political
activities without any interference from these agencies. Mengal explained that
those responsible for torture, killing and dumping of bodies of Baloch political
leaders and activists should be brought to justice. He further stated that
military operation should be stopped in the province and measures should be
taken for the displaced Balochis.
The federal government and the armed forces in a joint statement to the
Supreme Court on September 28 rejected assertions of Baloch leader Sardar Akhtar
Mengal, saying armed forces are neither conducting any military operation in
Balochistan nor are there any death squads of intelligences agencies. The
statement clearly mentioned that no missing person is in the custody of the
secret agencies and every political party in Balochistan is free to work.
Notably, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has also expressed similar views
in his latest statement.
In fact, we can not see baseless accusations of Akhtar Mengal as mentioned in
his six-point solution of Balochistan situation in isolation because these are
part of a deliberate propaganda which has been accelerated by the foreign-based
NGOs, human rights groups and media. With the secret support of American CIA,
Indian RAW and Israeli Mosssad which are well-penetrated in these external
entities and Pakistani media are being used to implicate Pak Army and ISI
including Frontier Corps (FC) regarding the human rights violations and
disappeared persons.
In this regard, with the help of Baloch separatist leaders who have taken
refuge in western countries, these hostile entities are perennially launching
false campaign about human rights violations in Balochistan to obtain the secret
strategic designs of US, India and Israel. In this respect, on February 8, 2012,
the hearing of the US Congress Committee on Foreign Affairs, chaired by Dana
Rohrabacher discussed target killings and human rights violations in
Balochistan, blaming Pakistan Army and country’s intelligence agencies for
extra-judicial killings. He also favoured an independent Balochistan. Earlier
Dana Rohrabacher arranged a meeting in which Baloch separatist leaders
participated along with the anti-Pakistan NGOs.
On July 31, 2011, a rally was organised by Baloch Human Rights Council in UK
in front of the US Embassy in London, which raised false allegations such as
inhuman torture and extrajudicial murder of the Baloch intellectuals by the
Pakistan’s security agencies. Besides, a demonstration was held outside the United Nations in Genva on the
occasion of the 19th Session of UN Human Rights Council to condemn the human
rights violations in Balochistan. The demonstrators accused the Pakistan’s
security and intelligence agencies of extrajudicial killings. Apperently, the
demonstration was organised and led by Mehran Baloch, Balochistan’s
representative at the United Nations and Noordin Mengal, but in fact, it was
arranged by anti-Pakistan NGOs, human rights groups and Indo-Israeli and
American lobbies.
On all these occasions, Sardar Akhtar Mengal who is speaking in the tone of
these foreign elements, played a key role secretly. It shows his covert liaison
with US high officials and CIA. Recently, the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances visited
Pakistan in connection with the missing persons, especially focusing on the
Province of Balochistan. In this context, during hearing, the Supreme Court has
questioned on September 19, this year that when the case of missing persons is
subjudice as to why the UN delegation has been invited to Pakistan.
The delegation of the UN Working Group also held meetings with the leaders of
various nationalist parities to know about human rights violations and situation
of missing persons, particularly of Balochistan. As the UN is under the
influence of the US-led major countries, so it also raised similar allegations
against Pakistan’s security agencies.
Particularly, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is
taking personal interest about the missing persons and law and order situation
of Balochistan. And impressed by the foreign elements in this respect,
Pakistan’s political parties and media have also been following the blame game
of the US-led entities. By taking note of these phenomena, US and other
anti-Pakistan elements decided to send Sardar Akhtar Mengal to Pakistan so that
the aggravated situation of the province could further be internationalised.
Regrettably, Nawaz Sharif, leader of (PML-N), Syed Munawar Hasan, Ameer of
Jamaat-i-Islami and Chairman Imran Khan of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf who have met
Akhtar Mengal encouraged him in maligning country’s key security institutes in
order to increase their vote bank at the cost of Pakistan’s integrity. Akhtar
Mengal also seeks to take the place of Nawab Akbar Bugti by manipulating the
circumstances of Balochistan.
Besides some other political figures, Akhtar Mengal also met media anchors
who helped him in providing false information to misguide the general masses
about the situation of Balochistan through TV channels. In fact, some of our
electronic media anchors and journalists are working on the payroll of the
foreign elements and thus they are creating misperceptions about
Balochistan.
Reliable reports suggest that these media commentators and Baloch separatist
elements including Sardar Akhtar Mengal have intermittently been invited by the
US officials and participated in their secret meetings in Pakistan so as to
intensify propaganda against Balochistan as part of conspiracy against the
country.
Pakistan’s internal elements, especially political parties should know that
the reality behind the worsening circumstances and the missing people of
Balochistan is that secret agencies like CIA, RAW and Mossad which have
well-established their collective network in Afghanistan are in collusion, and
have perennial been supporting bomb blasts, suicide attacks, abductions, target
killings, ethnic and sectarian violence in Balochistan through their affiliated
militant groups such as Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), Jundollah (God’s
soldiers), Balochistan National Party led by Sardar Akhtar Mengal and other
Baloch feudal lords (Sardars) to dismember Pakistan and Iran.
These foreign-backed insurgent groups are responsible for target killings of
Punjabis, Pushtuns, people of Hazara community and patriot Balochis including
Pakistani and Iranian Shias. Their subversive activities have resulted in
missing persons in Balochistan. In this connection, Pakistan’s Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik
disclosed in his recent statements that he also showed proof about training
camps being run in Afghanistan, and supply of arms and ammunition by the Afghan
government inside Balochistan. Malik explained that separatist outfits have
owned 299 terror attacks in the province in which more than 170 personnel of the
FC were martyred.
Nevertheless, all these foreign-backed subversive activities indicate that
situation of Balochistan cannot be improved so easily, that is why, Baloch
leader Akhtar Mengal has recommended separation of the province, if his six
points were not going to be implemented. These are also his pre-conditions to
have dialogue with the government. In the past, he has rejected a number of
offers, presented by the government to have peace talks to improve the
deteriorated law and order situation of Balochistan.
Nonetheless, external and internal connections of Sardar Akhtar Mengal will
further aggravate the problems of a majority of Balochis who do not want
independence of Balochistan.
By Sajjad Shaukat
He writes on international affairs and is author of the book: US
vs Islamic Militants, Invisible Balance of Power: Dangerous Shift in
International Relations
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