I posted sometime back in a thread regarding the proposed pipleline.
"Well, tough times ahead for us. From what I have gathered the proposed project is in no way in the interests of US and neither is the development of Gawadar( particularly the presence of China in this part of the world is an anthema for US). So whether it is the deal with Iran or the access of Chinese to the South Asian region, United States is actually not too happy about this whole situation.
Pakistan has clearly refuted all such allegations that implicated Iran in Baluchistan. Iran’s name was brought in primarily to create tensions between Pakistan the two and I guess we did the right thing by taking swift action to downplay all such statements.
Secondly, there is ‘some’ indication that it is infact the US that 's providing the Baloch nationalists arms and ammunition (through a thrid party) inorder to destabalize the region, so that China can stay away from this place.
Now, I found this report really interesting. Some of us might write it off by referring it as another conspiracy theory but there seems to be an element of truth in that.
http://www.dawn.com/weekly/mazdak/mazdak.htm
One hand clapping
By Irfan Husain
So what aerial threats are the F-16s going to guard us against? I am not suggesting that our armed forces should not modernize their equipment. We live in a dangerous part of the world where the security scenario does not take long to change. But the acquisition of the F-16s should not distract us from the fact that the real dangers that beset us are internal, whatever the source of their support and funding.
Recently, a reader e-mailed me an odd investigative report compiled by an organization called News Central Asia, based in Turkmenistan. Its website is given as www.newscentralasia. com, but as I am writing this from a very small town in Morocco, I do not have access to the Internet, and cannot comment on its credibility.
However, the four authors (including one Pakistani from Quetta) claim to have travelled 5,000 kilometres researching this report, and to have interviewed two ex-KGB officers in Moscow who were once tasked with fomenting trouble in Balochistan to punish Pakistan for its role in helping the Afghan resistance to the Soviet occupation.
‘Misha’ and ‘Sasha’, the two KGB sources, claim to have created the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) on the back of the old Moscow-leaning Balochistan Students Organization (BSO).
After the Soviet pull-out, the BLA became defunct for lack of funding, but was allegedly reactivated recently under a young man who studied electronic engineering in the Soviet Union where he was cultivated by the KGB.
According to this report, the first training camp was established in Kohlu in January 2002 by two Americans and two Indians. The authors make it clear that they have been unable to establish any official support from New Delhi for this clandestine venture, but do claim at least Pentagon backing for the American presence.
However, they do assert that the Indian consulates in Zahidan in Iran, and in Jalalabad and Kandahar in Afghanistan, have received a ‘700 per cent increase in their discretionary grant’ last year.
They also claim that disassembled arms like AK-47s, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades, mines, small anti-aircraft guns, ammunition and communication equipment are transferred from Kishangarh, an Indian village near the border with Pakistan where Balochistan and Sindh meet, to a transshipment point in Shahgarh, where these consignments are loaded on to camels, and then on to goods trucks where they are concealed by an upper layer of normal cargo. Apparently, they reach Kohlu in a few hours, as the distance is only about 180 kilometres.
Money, too, is pouring in. Allegedly, BLA foot soldiers are paid $200 each per month, while section commanders get $300 and above. Special bonuses are paid for successful missions. According to the authors, young Balochs are now driving around in flashy four-wheel drive vehicles.
Among the subjects taught at the training camps are ‘Greater Balochistan’, ‘Baloch rights’, ‘Punjabi tyranny’, ‘sabotage as a tool for political struggle’ and, intriguingly, ‘media-friendly methods of mass protest’.
The report quotes the KGB officers as concluding that the entire conspiracy is aimed at splitting Balochistan away from Pakistan to create a corridor from Central Asia for oil and gas to be transported to America.
A secondary aim is to deny this area to China which is now in global competition with America for energy sources. Beijing’s activities in Gwadar and elsewhere in the province are not viewed with approval in Washington.