Re: Punjab - a real problem?
Another article of “blame” from BBC this time :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4182151.stm
More important was the emergence of a new militant group calling itself the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA). It is this group, say government officials, which is fuelling the current unrest. The BLA says it carried out several attacks over the last year.
Mr Bugti argues that the BLA’s agenda clearly strikes a chord with the Baloch population.The BLA, for its part, says it is fighting “Punjabi domination” - the sense that Balochistan’s natural resources are being exploited by a state apparatus dominated by people from the province of Punjab.This, they say, results in the “marginalisation of the Baloch population through mega-development projects”.
The Balochistan legislative assembly is by far the most fragmented house amongst the four provincial assemblies in the country.What this means, say analysts, is that an entire population of young men, who have no jobs and no hope of a better future, is running around leaderless and directionless. And it is these people who have decided to take on what they call “Punjabi domination”. The army is generally seen as a Punjabi-dominated institution in Pakistan’s smaller provinces. Way back in the mid-1970s, an armed uprising in Balochistan was brutally quelled by the army with help from the Iranian military. Some 30 years later, many fear that the province seems poised to repeat its past.
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A petition to UN/HRC by “Unknown People” asking for signs… Punjabi hatered again…watch out!
http://www.petitiononline.com/baloch/petition.html
…Cntd…
Thousands of unarmed Baloch civilians, including women and children are being forcibly displaced from their homeland, to convert them into Minority in their own home by making place for Punjabi migrants to occupy Baloch land in Gawader and surroundings.
Balochistan is the riches province of Pakistan in terms of resources has been the least developed province, because of illegal occupation by oppressors, Punjabi bureaucracy and army. As per statement of the permanent representative the primary cause of conflict and serious Human Rights violation is illegal occupation, the same economic, social and cultural rights have been never given to the national minorities in Pakistan. The Rights of development is as mentioned has been given only to Punjab province. Development is only done in PUNJAB at the expense of the resources of minority provinces in general and Balochistan in particular