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Subject:
It is time to end occupation of Balochistan
musloko-maro
11/12/2005 5:19:19 PM
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The "Balochistan province" of Pakistan, the largest in area in the
terrirst islamist-military state of Pakistaan, is nothing but
an occupied territory. The President of Baloch Society in the U.S.,
a physician working in the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Wahid Baloch, has taken the first step to cause a free and independent Balochistan, free
of the occupation of Pakistan and Iran
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Interview: President, Baloch Society of North America
Introduction: Dr.Wahid Baloch is the president of newly formed BSO-NA (Baloch Society of North America) formed to ?educate the American people and the world community about Pakistani and Iranian occupation of our land and exploitation of our resources, and to bring their human right violations in Balochistan into the world notice.? He hails from Dasht Makran, Balochistan, graduated from Bolan Medical College-Quetta, in 1990 and Immigrated to the USA in 1992. He is a US citizen, working at the Mayo Clinic in Florida. Following is the Summary of the Interview by the author - Nagesh Bhushan is referred to as ?NB?
NB: Please Tell me about BSO-NA, and what it aims to achieve?
Baloch Society of North America (BSO-NA) was founded on Mar 27th, 2005, as a reaction to the latest military operation in Dera Bugti Balochistan which occurred on March 17th, 2005, in which scores of Baloch people, mostly our Hindu Baloch brothers, were killed and many were injured, including innocent children and women, by the Pakistani army. I was in Pakistan at that time, when the operation was going on. It was a very tense situation in Balochistan. And then BSO?s whole leadership, including Dr. Imdad Baloch, was kidnapped from Karachi, on March 25th, by Pakistani Security forces. When I came back to US, I felt obligated to do some thing about it. I decided to make an organization and expose the Pakistani and Iranian crime against our people to the world. The Very Next day I founded the BSO-NA.
NB: What are your short-term plans and long term goals?
We are a lobbying group. The main goal is educate the American people and the world community about Balochistan, to expose the occupation of our land and exploitations of our resources by Pakistani and Iranian regimes and to bring the human right violations in Balochistan into the world notice. We will work with US and any other like minded government or nation, who will pledge support to our struggle.
NB: What do you mean by Pakistani and Iranian Occupation of Balochistan?
We are all aware that Balochistan was forcefully annexed into Pakistan and Iran without the will and consent of our people. Baloch is an occupied Nation. Our status as a free Nation should be restored according to the international laws. Pakistan and Iran have to withdraw their armies from our land and they must stop looting our resources. They must compensate our people for looting and exploiting our resources for 58 years and for torturing and killing our people. Despite being bestowed with a large land abundant in rich natural resources Baloch people are still suffering immensely. Our main goal is to tell the world that Balochistan is an illegally occupied land and that the illegal occupation of our land must end. We have nothing in common with Pakistan or Iran. Our culture, language, traditions and all other facets of life and living are different from both these countries, excepting religion. Let me tell you this, not all the Baloch in Balochistan are Muslims. Most of them are Atheists, Hindus, Christians, Zikiris or very liberal Muslims but none of them are extremists or fanatics.
If Pakistan and Iran think that we should be a part of them just because we Baloch also follow Islam, then they should ask the very same question to Afghanistan, Turkey and all these other Gulf States to join them too. And if they don't then why should we? They say in Balochi," Mana kochakka Wartaa?? (Have I been bitten by a crazy dog to make such a wrong judgment and give up my freedom?) Baloch had never joined Pakistan or Iran. We have a huge land, rich in all the resources and we are far less in number, we can live like kings, only if we are the masters of our own land and resources. But, Pakistan and Iran are using our resources to develop themselves and their military but not us, the common Baloch folk. Ask Pakistan and Iran how many Baloch people are in their policy-making bodies? (Zero), how many Baloch are in their military (none), how many Baloch are in the federal Government services and in other key positions? (None), How many Baloch are Ambassadors in all the Pakistani and Iranian Embassies around the world (None, Zero!), and who are the Governors in Both Eastern and Western Balochistan? (Both are Non-Baloch, outsiders, appointed by Islamabad and Tehran). Who is the Police chief in Balochistan? (A Punjabi). So what does all this imply? Aren't these are the hallmarks of an occupying force.
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