Balochistan - Province or Country?
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Since provincial discrimination is nothing new in Pakistan and where both NWFP and Balochistan has been crying for decades now that they need the royalty for the natural resources which are extracted from their area and eventually channeled to the whole country. The recent outburst of Jan Muhammad Jamali on the floor is an eye opener for everyone who wants this country united with the current borders intact. His open threat of disintegrating the country should not be taken as negative but as an extreme step taken by oppressed and frustrated people. Till date the Federal Government has not disbursed Rs. 800 million ($13 billion) to the province of Balochistan. This amount has been kept at center and disbursed in other provinces which is a major reason of despair for the Balochi people. With the above amount properly disbursed, Baluchistan would have been one of the most developed province of the country and there would have been no Balochistan Liberation Army to attack and kill our military men. There would have been no Bugti if we had stopped looking from the lens of Punjab, which our center mostly wears and we would have no talk of separation if we had not launched military operations against the people who want their basic rights. I was even amazed to listen our government telling the parliament that this year 5 officers from Balochistan have been promoted to the post of BS-22, which they termed a historic decision. I wonder why nothing like that happened before and i wonder why 75% of our military is from Punjab while less then 1% of people are from Balochistan? Did we ever investigate these incidents? Are the Balochis not brave enough to be part of our army? If that is the case, why our army is finding it difficult to control their rough militia? I think we should stop this provincial discrimination before we have another 1971, and later we start blaming game. This is the time to take action before its too late as rightly said by Jan Muhammad Jamali. |
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you *********.. how many people live in balochistan?
and how many resources were extrated from balochistan last year? and how many were extracted before 1999, before musharraf too power. the thing is before the ***** warlords took them and now the government takes them.
****** like you dont see that there is no balochi people, there is only pakistanis.
if you want your own country, go somewhere else. I can assure you that pakistan is not ready to give up its land so that you can be happy.
i doubt there will be another 1971 because i dont think balochis are traiters. they are blinded by their elders, who refuse to give up their position of power so that progress can come to the balochi people.
i am disappointed by your lens, wahab sb.
you have missed the whole point.
can you tell me how many people live in australia or for that matter, what’s the population intensity there? does this mean that australia should not be what it is now?
population will only increase when you create markets and jobs. once that happens, demographies will shift too. or else, why would people from lahore and karachi be buying real estate in gwadar?
please be aware that there are pakistanis and then there are pakistanis that are balochs, sindhis, saraikis, pashtuns and there are hindus and sikhs and christians and ahmadis and so on, all being pakistani…
yes there is sardari system in balochistan and wadera shahi in sindh and malaks in FATA but what has the state does, in the last 60 years to get rid of them? why were the land reforms carried out in indian punjab and not here, imeediately after partitition? why is the indian democracy working and not ours? why are there 22 official languages in india while we refused to accept bengali as a second national language (even when bengais were much larger a number than urdu speakers)?
grow up!!! and please read a bit more about your own country!
Faisal
ANU
The type of language Wahab used compelled me to not to reply to him at all because people like him are still living in their own world which is totally far away from the reality. Asking stupid questions like population etc shows his lack of knowledge about the ground realities. We have to accept that we discriminated few provinces of our country as well as Northern areas and unless we realize this mistake, we will suffer. BLA and Taliban movement are nothing but a result of our policies for the past 60 years.
I agree with Faisal and this article. I think this is the time we have got to do something in order to save federation. The conditions are getting even worse, Maybe bloggers like me and you guys need to start a revolution. I am always here to assist regarding this issue. I have got some videos also that can help
Exactly that is the main reason we came out with this blog to present the other side of Pakistan. By other side i mean the positive side which no one bothers to present and every new media outlets are busy in presenting the sad and disappointing news.
We have to get together to implement this new change in our society
But what I believe is we should be writing the truth. Either positive or negative.
I agree with your point that media is biased and emphasizes on negative points. So we bloggers have got to present true and honest journalism.
Have a look at the similar post at my blog:
http://www.guppu.com/2008/08/24/pakistan-or-punjabistan-pakhtunistan-sindhudesh-baloshistan-infact-why-not-lahoristan-or-karachistan-etc/
Junaid I am looking forward to your comments regarding the above article.
Regards,
Farhan
Aarpix.Com
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