House Hearings on Balochistan: US Mulls Balkanization of Pakistan

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Re: House Hearings on Balochistan: US Mulls Balkanization of Pakistan

@Ali_Syed

well I blame Pakistan army/establishment more for this mess, we had the map published by Ralph Peters (2006) depicting the kind of Pakistan that would exist in the future (by the way that Pakistan wouldnt include FATA as well) . Our army played into their trap. They had a lot of chances of withdrawing from Balochistan on their own terms, but in their arrogance they missed those chances and in fact deteriorated the situation instead of improving it. None of the provincial assembles, national assembly had time for the Baloch, for media memogate and other trivial issues were more important than Balochistan.

Now we have Balochistan being discussed in American House (moral victory for the baloch) with Pakistan (Army) under pressure and now they will have to solve the problem under pessure with the militants on top and confident.

What do you mean withdraw from balochistan? If rules are arbitrary, then I guess MQM was ok as well to ban imran khan’s entry in the past in karachi. Now, I don’t see enforced disappearances as a way to win in a counterinsurgency (only looking at it militarily), but what kind of message does it send if Pakistani army can’t deploy in its own territory? The south tried that in North Carolina (fired at union troops) and see what happened as a result (re: Civil War).

I’d say that Pakistan should permanently close the overland NATO supply line and also reduce the NATO air corridor over afghanistan. If US doesn’t bite the bullet, then surely would NATO, whatever of non-US of NATO is deployed, will convey the message to the US. US needs other soldiers in afghanistan, so screw with that part of the equation.