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Baloch and Sindhi activists demand Pakistan be declared as 'terrorist state' | Baloch and Sindhi activists here have demanded that Pakistan be declared a 'terrorist state'. A large number of people
from the two communities converged in front of the BBC World Service office in
London to protest and observe Pakistan's illegal occupation of the "independent
state" of Balochistan on March 27, 1948, a day that has since been declared as
'Black Day'. "This is the time the world should realize and they should, I think,
this is the time for the security, for the peace and for the stability of the
region, and the international community that they should declare Pakistan as a
terrorist state," Samad Baloch, a member of the Baloch Human Rights Council, said.
The protest intended to tell the international community, including the UN, that
Balochistan should be recognized as an occupied country. The protesters, holding
placards with anti-Pakistan slogans, its military, and human rights violations,
blamed Pakistani authorities for settling Taliban militia everywhere in the country.
"Basically, they are settling Taliban everywhere; they are settling Taliban in
Gilgit and Baltistan; they are settling Taliban in Pakistani-occupied Kashmir;
they are settling Taliban in Sindh; they are settling Taliban in Balochistan,
because they are their strategic extension," said Lakhu Luhana, Secretary General,
World Sindhi Congress, UK. Luhana said that Sindhis and Balochs are being denied
their basic rights. "People are being disappeared, the political activists, and
the Sindhi people... historical rights, political rights and legal rights and
cultural rights, they have been completely denied them. There is no law and order,
they have entered into poverty and suffering and that has descended on Sindh and
Balochistan," he said. The protestors also said their struggle would continue
until they had achieved their goal of a free Balochistan. They said that Pakistan
never wants to resolve the Kashmir issue, as it would then stop receiving international
aid. "If the Kashmir problem solved, how Pakistan General...becoming...take money,
so they are the most corrupt army in the world, people call it fifth largest army
of the world, but we say this is the most corrupt army in the world," Mir Ghulam
Hussain, Information Secretary, Baloch Human Rights Council, UK, said. New Delhi
accuses Pakistan of sponsoring terror in Indian-administered Kashmir. Pakistan,
which claims Kashmir in full, has consistently denied its involvement in abetting
an anti-India insurgency that has killed more than 47,000 people since 1989. Former
legislative assembly member from Balochistan and member of the powerful Marri
tribe, Harbiya Marri, also said that Pakistan has no intentions to have peace
with India, and the dialogue between the two countries is a farce. "They have
no intention of having peace with Pakistan because they have to maintain this
large army and the army is main ruler of Pakistan, which is controlling Pakistan
for the last 62 years. So this is the creation of this artificial stage. So, they
have to have some sort of dialogue to show we want peace but in reality the intentions
are not peace. They want these camps to be maintained to keep on terrorizing Indian
government, people and the whole world," he said. India broke off a four-year-long
sluggish peace initiative with Pakistan after the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks,
saying dialogue could resume only if Islamabad acted against militants on its
soil. It blamed the attacks, which killed 166 people, on Pakistan-based militants. |
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