Pakistan Rulers Blamed For Destroying Baluchistan
The Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed responsibility for the Tuesday afternoon, vehicle explosion near Confucius Institute – a Chinese language teaching centre in Karachi University – in which four people including three Chinese nationals were killed.
The BLA has been resisting the Chinese investments in Baluchistan, especially under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Baluchistan is a resource-rich but least developed region, An independent country when British left in Aug 1947, it was force fully occupied by Pakistan in 1954. Since then a movement for freedom has been ongoing for the past eight decades.
Since 1954, Pakistan’s civil governments, military dictators, armed forces operations, and opportunistic Chinese have destroyed Baluchistan, a local leader called for resources of the region to be spent on the local people. Thewe remarks were made by Maulana Abdul Haq Hashmi, chief of Jamaat-e-Islami Baluchistan, local media reported.
Hashmi further said that not giving constitutional rights to the people of Baluchistan, not providing employment, education, and health facilities, and letting the people face check posts and police stations have created “problems and worries”.
The leader said that due to the actions of the security agencies, even today, “Baluchistan suffers from feelings of injury, reaction, and revenge.”
“Unfortunately, the government never listened to the people of Baluchistan with honesty and sincerity nor did it show seriousness in giving them rights,’ Hashmi added.
He also highlighted that the youth of Baluchistan are heading towards the mountains (taking up weapons) due to the power-hungry leaders, the failure of the rulers, negligence, incompetence, and abuse.
“This is incompetence, negligence, and failure of the federal government and the provincial government along with other forces,” he said.
He went on to call for the resources of the region to be spent on the local people than being exploited by outsiders.
“If the resources of Baluchistan are spent on Baluchistan, then the rights of the people will be delivered and the feeling of deprivation will decrease,” Hashmi said.
He added that if the rulers had brought the missing persons of Baluchistan to light in time, provided employment and education to the youth, and solved burning national and collective problems, then the conditions of Baluchistan would be much better today.
