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Our petty minded politicians have no idea of what is important and what is urgent and what can wait. For example people are being killed in Karachi and they took up the issue of Commissioner-ate System from the middle of nowhere. Looks like they have no idea of what they are doing or must do, forget about important and urgent.
Instead of addressing the root cause of the problem, taking action against those who incite violence openly with racist statements on TV, talk shows and in speeches and moving against the killers and murderers they ignore it. Take no action, let them escape. The result is for months on ends the killings go on - total apathy for problems and law and order. That was one example.
Balochistan is burning. They have not a clue what to do. They go and rake up the name of Khyber Pahktunkhwa as if that could not havewaited. This appeasement of a race is not a good idea. Tomorrow they could ask for secession and you wouldn't be able to do anything. The name Sarhad was just fine - at least it was not on a race. Punjab is by the five rivers. Sindh by Indus, Balochistan by Bal. KPK is the only province on a race. So why blame poor Hitler for racism?
ZAB resisted it and so did all the previous administrations stubbornly and not without reason and this government thoughtlessly went ahead and did it only to get ANP support at the Center. These KPK guys don't want any laws and rules for themselves and want to export the same lawless (ilaqa ghair) mindset elsewhere in Pakistan. High time it stopped. It is important it is urgent. But they do nothing about it.
The Urgent and Important issue is Balochistan. The rebellion started not by the people but sardars. People of Balochistan are with Pakistan 100%. I have interviewed scores of ordinary Balochs. They have confided that they are sick and tired of the tyranny of sardars. They want Pakistan to free them from their hold. Surprisingly the media seems to be sold to the sardars as they do not talk about their tyranny, how they have kept Balochistan and Balochis backward.
The rebellion must be put down by force and the people appeased, not sardars. Talk to the people not the rebel sardars. Bring in a law to curtail their power that is land. Take land away from them by introducing strict land ceiling and distribute the excess land among the poor in the area.
As for the armed rebellion by the sardars take a cue from how India crushed the much bigger Khalistan movement.
Fred Mayer/Getty Images The Flavian Amphitheatre or Colosseum in Rome, built in 70-80 AD, October 1998.
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The guy was not murdered but died in military action although he brought it upon himself. When people die as a result of military action it is not called murder.
The way media at the behest of some political forces is using this incident for political mileage is anti-patriotic. It is totally unjustified using that word. Our army does not murder people. Whoever uses such words must be prosecuted.
Hamid Mir, God knows what is his agenda calls it a "baqaeda murder" meaning a full fledged murder as if Musharraf has gone and killed him with a knife or a pistol. One wonders how he can say this and why the ex-President does not sue such anchors for misleading people and building a positive image of criminals.
Who ever fights The State of Pakistan is a traitor and a criminal and The State shall deal with them accordingly. I am amazed at the words used by Hamid Mir. I cannot place him in the category of journalists for sure.
Unable to digest development in Baluchistan for the first time against the wishes of the sardars they have started to stoke separtist feelings. I have interviewed many common working Baluchis who left Baluchistan as there were no chances of employment and have found them all to be in favour of Pakistan. They openly say that these sardars just cannot bear development of Baluchistan as they cannot continue to treat them as slaves for long. This is the crux of the matter. We love the people of Baluchistana and they are with us.
Sardars must join the common man and give up their usurped and British awarded lands for "ghaddari" and voluntarily give to the landless poor in Baluchisthan and join the mainstream. If they do not do this themselves we must introduce land ceiling and take over their excess land and distribute among poor.
These are beautiful pictures of old times. No where are the Sardars seen as Kings or Princes. One wonders how they claim to be princely states like that of Hyderabad, Mysore, Kashmir or even Gwalior, Junagadh etc. Balochistan figures no where as a Princely State. The claim of Sardars does not seem to hold ground historically. See earlier detailed post on this blog.
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Recently Nasim Zehra talked to students in Baluchistan, carried on TV and Najam Sethi spoke to Haer Bakhsh Marri in London. I was shocked to listen to constructed history to which neither Nasim Zehra nor Najam Sethi could counter convincingly. I was obliged to do some research whose findings are as follows:
Who is a Baloch Prince and where are they? They (Baloch Princes) are no where to be found in the list of Princely States like Hyderabad, Mysore, Gwalior or Kashmir etc. If they were catergorised as British India they would not be in Princely States category. You could be in either not in both. I have searched many books now. Baluchistan has always been included in the British India although a Muslim majority one. I fail to understand how this story of a princely state came about. Political Agencies were not Princely States. A full list is available at the end of this article. Did they have their own Currency, Postal and Railway System?Princely States like Hyderabad for instance had 21 gun salute, had its own currency, own postal system, own railways besides all the other institutions of State like Legislature, Executive and the Judiciary with all pillars and institutions well defined and highly developed. Nizam enjoyed the title of HEH His Exalted Highness. Except Foreign Affairs The Nizam VII of Hyderabad controlled every thing. From the British It had a resident like viceroy. In contrast Baluchistan was run by petty Commissioners, not even Governors. Did Buluchistan have any thing close? No. Even in Kashmir, a princely state, there was Hari Singh a prince and in Mysore Maharaja of Mysore enjoyed similar privileges. See the list of commissioners given at the bottom who ruled Baluchistan. Independence of India Act:Of the 400 or more Princely States only the big Princely States had an option to either join India or Pakistan or remain independent as per Independence of India Act. India just crushed all. Invaded Hyderabad against the wishes of its people and the ruler, with 27 Division from all sides having earlier blockaded a land land locked country illegally for an year. In Pakistan, the genuinely Princely States joined Pakistan and the rest of the area was automatically amalgamated with Pakistan and the Sardars fell in line. Pray tell me how Sardars can become princes? Badly informed media is hurting Pakistan interests and dividing people... Media is giving undue vent to their supposed grievances and giving an un-necessary platform to a secessionist idea. Media is playing to the gallery for small gains and at the expense of national interests. Petty sardars were not princes. There is no way British would allow 400 countries in The Sub-Continent. In the entire struggle for independence no where do you find mention of regions demanding independence. It was just the two nation theory that was the issue. There was not a mention of a region. It was not a struggle for Punjab, Sindh, Baluchistan or Pakhtunisatan. It was purely Hindu and Muslim issue and hence the struggle. Any thing else is figment of imagination. Some even made comparison with Nepal it is just not true. This is not fact but fiction. Bad policies, governance and the callous Punjabi domination... Unfortunately it is just weak and poor governance and bad policies subsequently that have turned things sour and so sour. Punjab being the most populous State and rather callous in their approach occupied all military and government positions all over the country. And that was also one of the reasons of East Pakistan becoming Bangla Desh. Punjab indeed should have cared for the aspirations and sentiments of other provinces and restrained instead of riding rough shod over the rights of people of other provinces. Not only Baluchistan but all provinces resent Punjabi overwhelming presence and dominance in Government and armed forces.
Resentment against Punjabi domination should not be aimed at Pakistan... But let not your resentment against Punjab be a resentment against the State of Pakistan. Pakistan belongs to you and me alike although all of us may be ethnically a little different from each other. But that is OK. Don't forget we are all Muslims and only on this basis we got independence from The Brits and nothing else. It was The Two Nation Theory that made Pakistan and gave us independence otherwise we would still be under British Rule.
How will you stop Osmosis? Bring back the Baloch Diaspora to Baluchistan... But let us not forget that Baluchistan has more land and less people. The osmosis is going to take place. Liquid from higher pressure will move to areas of lesser pressure. That is natural. It has happened every where. You cannot stop it. You cannot fight it by guns. It is not good for the State and the people of Baluchistan. There are ways to ensure Baluchi population is protected. Give them eduction, protection in jobs and businesses. Have genuine development in Baluchistan so that The Baloch Diaspora comes back to Baluchistan, invests there and settles down in their own home. Nothing else is going to work. Do something for the people of Baluchistan not for Sardars who have exploited the Balochs no ends already.
Baluchistan is a virgin territory, can be turned into the most prosperous area in the region...Baluchistan and hence the Balochs are blessed with immense natural resources. But all of it is deep under ground or high up. There is enormous water barely a few feet beneath that can turn the entire Baluchistan green. You can grow any crop imaginable. It will become the Banana basket to the world for example. All it needs is vision, investment and hard labor. It is all available. The State has to just give law and order by all means. The benefits will accrue to the common Baloch. The Sardars will also benefit. Industrialization will follow.
The Solar irradiation is so good that if properly exploited it can give power to the entire country and may even export it to Afghanistan, India and Iran. There will be no power crunch. I am not yet talking of the minerals and oil deep down. Lets keep it for future generations. Baluchistan will be the envy of the world. It will be an example for the world to follow. Who has kept the Balochs behind? Let a Baloch be free and then see what he does...
The Sardars with their disdain for education and development have created this situation so that people do not go after them for their tyranny and expose their rule that has kept education and development away from the people of Baluchistan. People want development but Sardars don' want it.They want the status quo and backwardness. They want their own lordship to continue at any cost while they keep people uneducated and send their own children abroad for education and also live off this land in foreign countries. Media is committing a grave mistake. Nasim Zehra was even conceding "ziyadathi huwi" meaning deprivation has taken place. Not correct. "Kya ziyadathi huwi?" agar kuch huwi tho unke sardaron se. (deprivation if it all was meted out to Balochs by the sardars not the Government of Pakistan) she should have made that plain.
No more Sardar and no more slaves please... Limit ownership of land to let more people enjoy land not few... No body in Pakistan is against Baloch but could be against The Sardars who are arousing anti-Pakistan sentiments for their own narrow ends. In any other country they would be tried under Disaffection Law or even Treason. We cannot have the Sardar and Slave situation in Baluchistan any more. One has thousands of acres of land and the other none. Let there be social justice. Let more people enjoy the resources of the country not a chosen few. High time we brought in land ceiling and limited land ownership to not more than 56 acres per head and 14 acres under canal, as they did in India in 1951. We want all Balochs free like the rest of Pakistanis. Unfortunately some parts of Sindh and Punjab are also suffering from slavery due to landlord-ism and strict land ceiling should be applied there too. Balochs are not against Pakistan but Sardars are... People of Baluchistan are not speaking the sardar's language but their hand picked workers are. Law and good governance demands that they be arrested immediately and things not allowed to get out of hand. Any leniency will make matters worse. Did you not see in Lal Masjid case how delay made matters worse? Nip it in the bud if you want to stop the dismemberment of Pakistan. I have done extensive interviews, believe me the overwhelming majority of common poor Balochi is with Pakistan. Sardars are certainly not with Pakistan. Let them be themselves so long as the majority is with us.
Sardari system days are numbered... The Sardars know the day land reforms and development comes to Baluchistan their lordship is over. They are making all out efforts to keep Baluchistan backward for as long as they can. They resist development in shape of regionalism. They have succeeded for over 60 years and now fear the time has come to give people their rights so they are conspiring with Israel and inimical neighbors to overturn the apple cart. This is their last ditch effort. They have a shadow cabinet in Jerusalem. Which state in the world is going to tolerate that? Please tell me. When India could succeed putting down such a big rebellion why can't Pakistan? See how India crushed the Khalistan movement totally and effectively? They used the heavy stick against the terrorists and the carrot for the common Sikh. Let one man say he is not an Indian but a Punjabi or something else see what happens. Here they are openly defying Pakistan and the interviewers and anchors are showing soft corner. The media is behaving as if The Baluchis have been wronged. If any thing The Sardars have wronged the Balochs not Pakistan. It was the Sardars that did not allow gas to the residents of Buluchistan, not Pakistan. It was publicised as if Pakistan did not give gas to the Balochs. Sardars stopped them. If the Sardars have a minimum level of honesty let them deny this. People have lost lives, the law should take its course. What belonged to British then belongs to Pakistan now...As for natural resources of mines etc. they had already surrendered to The Govt. of India then and took money for it. After creation of Pakistan it automatically goes to Paksitan. Read a full article in Dawn. Now what are they claiming?
Placate the Baloch, sideline the sardars!
Fascinating: Reproduced below from history (Encyclopedia Britannica) are some historical facts. Please see. Quoted:
Baluchistan during the British India period contained four princely states and an Omani Port of Gwadar (which later became part of Pakistna on 08 Dec. 1958). Below are details of rulers:
Baluchistan - Province of British India:
Gwadar
Kalat
Kharan
Lasbela
Makran
19 Jun 1877 British India Baluchistan Province
and Tribal Areas.
1896 Province of British India. 14/15 Aug 1947 Baluchistan becomes a big province of Pakistan.
On June 19, 1877 The British occupy Quetta. Baluchistan becomes British India's Province on October 1, 1877. From November 1, 1877 it is incorporated into British India. Chief Commissioners: (where are the sardars? Sardars are not princes any way).
·Sir Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St. John (1st time).19 Jun 1877 - 11 Dec 1887
·Acting Chief commissioner.
·Sir Robert Groves Sandeman (1st time).............11 Dec 1887 - 03 Apr 1889
·Sir Harry North Dalrymple Prendergast (acting)....03 Apr 1889 - 08 Oct 1889
·Sir Robert Groves Sandeman (2nd time).............08 Oct 1889 - 23 Apr 1891
·Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes (1st time, acting).....23 Apr 1891 - 08 May 1891
·Sir Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St. John (2nd time).09 May 1891 - 04 Jun 1891
·Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes (2nd time, acting).....05 Jun 1891 - 09 Jul 1891
·John Biddulph (acting)............................10 Jul 1891 - 16 Nov 1891
·Sir Robert Groves Sandeman (3rd time).............16 Nov 1891 - 29 Jan 1892
·Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes (3rd time, acting).....29 Jan 1892 - 21 Mar 1892
·Sir James Browne..................................22 Mar 1892 - 13 Jun 1896
·James Adair Crawford (acting).....................14 Jun 1896 - 14 Nov 1896
·Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons(1sttime,acting)18 Apr 1936 - 20 Jun 1937
·Ronald Evelyn Leslie Wingate(2nd time, acting)..20 Jun 1937 - 28 Nov 1937
·Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe(acting)...............28 Nov 1937 - 14 Mar 1938
·Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons(2nd time).....14 Mar 1938 - 11 Aug 1939
·Sir Herbert Aubrey Francis Metcalfe.........11 Aug 1939 - 24 Nov 1943
·William Rupert Hay..........................24 Nov 1943 - 1946
·Henry Mortimer Poulton......................14 May 1946 - 1946
·Sir Geoffrey Prior..........................1946 - 15 Aug 1947
·Continued to be the Chief Commissioner of Pakistan's Province of Baluchistan
·till 03 Oct 1947.
It no where suggests that it was a princely state like Kashmir, Hyderabad, Gwalior etc. There is no Resident throughout which was the requirement of a Princely State. See the British Rulers of Balochistan.
If you can see above there is not a single member of any tribe that actually ruled. Balochistan today:Placate the Baloch, sideline the sardars!
Balochistan a part of Pakistan as you can see some pictures above. People were freed from the British and the land lords yoke and were poised to write their own destiny. They rejected their destiny to be written either by The British or the vested interests of the region. Muslim League did not wage a struggle so that some land lords came to power and controlled the destiny of the Baloch common man. We are with the people of Balochistan, we want them to be free and wish the best for them. Some old beautiful pictures of Baluchistan of the British Time.
Dinosaurs of Pakistan. Watch:
Dinosaurs of Balochistan.
King George and Queen Mary visit Balochistan in 1906. Watch and simply enjoy the music.:
The ultimate original thinker of all time - Allama M.Iqbal. He is one thinker who is never out of date and knows no boundaries - timeless and boundaryless. He is a World Poet not just a poet of the East.
Timely justice for all, not a few. Pro-poor. Rule of law in national and international issues. Against aggression. Against exploitation in the name of poverty or religion. For professionalism. Against all kinds of hoarding including land and property. Very strong advocate of self reliance, import substitution, earning of foreign exchange and its conservation. Against squandering of foreign exchange for consumer goods. For land ceiling - agricultural and urban. For industrialization with emphasis on exports. For equitable distribution of wealth. Against concentration of political and financial power in hands of a few. A strong believer in people empowerment. Very democratic. Believe in Muslimtha but the genuine one. A strong advocate of Freedom of Press. Against political slogans that fool people. Against corruption of all kinds. Support honest people. Maintained Integrity throughout. Always take a stand on right against wrong. Do not believe in conspiracy theories without proofs. Advocates excellent relations with followers of all religions. Strong P.R.Man. I love difference of opinion. My best friends are those who agree with me and also those who don't.
