Balochistan crisis & its resolution!

[yazdi]

Re: Balochistan crisis & its resolution!

@Ali_Syed

The settlers have been settling in Balochistan for quite some time, and the main reason would be related to economics, and there is nothing new in that. This has happened every where in the world, there are many Baloch’s too who have settled throughout the country Baloch of Punjab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia including Punjab. Infact Punjab has the biggest Baloch population outide Balochistan. Anyways thats not the point when Pakistanis travel to other countries for better economic opportunities so why should a particular area of the country be out of bounds?

Having said that I dont think the issue has been handled properly at all by the government. The economy of Balochistan needs to be lifted, and more people from the province need to be trained and prepared for taking up jobs within the province. If the government is facing resistance from a few mischievious sardars, there are many other areas where the sardars are pro Pakistan, districts like Khuzdar and Turbat where there is no role of sardars per se, and then we have the pashtun areas; who is stopping the government from developing those areas.

The way Pakistani government has tried to ‘rid the Baloch’ from their bad sardars is not well thought as well. The way the operation has been carried out, it has started to alienate even the pro Pakistan elements there. Pakistani army is using gunship helicopters (Indians didnt use them even in the peak of Kashmir violence), and then instead of prosecuting the terrorists through judicial process the abduct cum kill and dump has not helped either.

**The Baloch people are very simple and they only want respect/honour. But if you want to persecute (control them through force) then they have a very long history of fighting injustices (the Brits and now with our government for the fifth time). **

Some times it does help to learn from the history and make the policies accordingly.

The economy of whole Pakistan not only Baluchistan has to be lifted as it is touching new lows due to corruption and mis-management. Everyone in Pakistan is frustrated with this mis-management not only Baluchis.. They are just venting their frustrations in a different manner.

To solve the problem of Baluchistan we need to divide the problem in two distinct parts..

A) The Problem of Sardars:

Having lived in Karachi during my youth days I have seen the families of Bugtis, Zehris, and Marris etc. All their children used to drive fancy cars and were sort of gangsters who had a fleet of personal armed people around them.. not missing any opportunity to create trouble. These Sardars used to get direct Bhattas from the government of Pakistan and all the lavish life style was maintained through these bhattas. None of the families used to live in their villages.. where Sardars just maintained their private armies to safeguard their fiefdoms.

Musharraf stoppped these bhattas and these Sardars got angry and turned against the government. They had these private armies with rocket launchers and every sort of arms and ammunitions. Now these Sardars have turned to some foreign countries to finance their private armies.

What is the solution to this problem.. disband their private armies.. go after their finances.. cut their supplies.. disarm them totally.

B) The problem of general population/masses in Baluchistan:

Their problem is purely economic and solutions are also economic. The first step to solve this economic problem in Baluchistan will be to establish law and order there which can not be done without disbanding these private armies. Create business/increase agriculture opportunities. Establish some tax free zones to boast industrialization..

All type of insurgencies flourish when a country is not doing well economically. I can tell you if Pakistan gets good management and starts doing well on economic front.. all these insurgencies will die automatically. Nobody would like to leave Pakistan to miss the economic boom. People will feel pride in recognizing themselves with Pakistan.. just like what happened in India/China.

You are saying that we were not able to uplift the non-trouble areas in Baluchistan.. we were not able to uplift any area in Pakistan.. leave alone Baluchistan due to this mis-management and corruption. We have not been able to make water reservoirs/dams.. we have not been able to solve our energy issues.. we have not been able to control our exploding population.. we have failed miserably on educational front. And these failures are not just Baluchistan specific. I can tell you once a good management is given in Pakistan all these problems will vanish automatically.. Like Bill Clinton said: “It’s the economy stupid!!!”…