Comments on: Talking Balochistan

By: Qurat-al- AIN

Qurat-al- AIN — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Greetings: I noticed hat there has not been one single politician or elected official has taken part in the conversation from either side. It tells you the state of affairs of the country.

By: Nadeem S

Nadeem S — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Congressional hearings mean nothing, get a grip people. I am surprised Pakistan has given so much notice to it, it means absolutely nothing.

Pakistan should not react to a single congressmans personal crusade, it should have been ignored.

Now the Baloch leaders who are rebels have become bold, we must not invite them under pressure.

By: Nadeem S

Nadeem S — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I dont know the facts but I dont think one nation can prevent another nation from digging on their own soil just because the oil may flow towards them, it is our fault if that is true and we should not have stopped digging.

However I think this is an urban legend.

By: mehmoona

mehmoona — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

come on 17 seats in the national assembly out of a total of 342.. is not a sizeable representation.regardles of that and what has happened in the past .the fact of the matter is that baluchistan does feel itself sidelined denying it is not going to solve the situation…we have lost east pakistan to arrogance so please lets hold on to baluchistan with reality.
equal representation means equal representation, if there is inequality in the size of the provinces make them equal so it is actually equal representation.. what we have done is divided provinces on ethnic bases and hence bred feelings of injustice

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Greetings to all. For the love of God Almighty, the kiling of a young mother and her child is limit of cruelty. Even Mafia never touched the family members and their relative, Have we become animals or we were always that way.

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

There is a international law concerning the Mineral right royality. If the land is owned by a individual or this is a family property, the royality money goes to the land owners. If the property is owned by state the royality goes to province. In case of offshore, outside the legal boundry, being in the international waters such as oil wells in deep sea, the money goes to the central govt. In the case of Baluchistan if the land is owned by a sardar or nawab ( recorded in court by the registrar and abstract report can authenticate this. ) then the legal owner gets the revenue. There can be an exception however if the exception defined and approved by the lasgislation.

By: amjad

amjad — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Asim your points made here are true to the fact and are worth considering for Balauch separatists.

By: amjad

amjad — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Mir Sahib there is no doubt, you have rightfully mentioned some disturbing facts and your grievances may be justified from many aspects.
you want to be left alone but Believe me it is not just a matter of everybody haunting you,it is not for natural resources either it is much bigger then that.Please look at things from a bigger perceptive. and you may find why we are worried?

By: Abdul Ghafoor Baloch

Abdul Ghafoor Baloch — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Killings will go on happening in Balochistan as there is no accountability and has been no accountability and there will be no accountability. Institutions are weak and there is a very strong PERSONALIZED form of system intact. A system where might and power has become the law and the law of might and power is the law of the jungle, and the law of the jungle is prevailing in our society. There are touchables and the untouchables in the society where one is targeted due to it being weak and the other, an invisible hand that can hit wherever and whosoever at will and desire with no regrets. There can be seen no magnanimity. If we become merciless against one, we gradually become merciless against all and eventually we have turned into a merciless society where the value of the life of a human being is nothing but a priceless target on a shooting range. A society may it be a law enforcing agency or an individual, that has become trigger happy, wants to shoot and kill at will with no resolve or emphasis to the law or humanity or the revelations of the Almighty in the Holy Quran.

The animosity of our society has now reached new heights where the innocent wife and daughter of Mir Bakhtiar Dhomki were so mercilessly killed in this so called mega-city. In the Baloch Soceity, Culture and History, sanctity of a women’s respect prevails and there is never found an instance where revenge is taken from a woman or a child. Their killers will never be identified same as those tortured and killed and their mutilated corpses thrown around in the Balochistan Province. If there is a government, is it not the responsibility of the government to unearth the facts and bring the killers to task, the killers of young Pakistanis in the Balochistan Province and now killers of women and children too. Where and when will this end? Or will it ever end! Or can we as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan bring it to an end. The retaliation and reaction to such actions is again devastating where innocent human lives are wasted.

The memory of East Pakistan is still fresh in our minds, let us not make history repeat itself and should try to bring a turnaround before its too late or perhaps it is already too late.

By: amjad

amjad — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Shafi that will never happen,nobody has the interest at their heart for the masses.
everybody is being lead,there is no awareness of the root cause of any of the problems being faced by the people of Baluchistan or the people of the country on the whole.
Until an average person develops below surface understanding of the issues, they will be played like rouge dolls. Jaha n hai manzil wahee n lutaira