Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The Balochistan crisis

No package can meet success if mutilated and bullet-riddled dead bodies keep on appearing in Balochistan. Each dead body sabotages the Balochistan package
Balochistan is suffering from a serious crisis of governance. There are two expressions of the Balochistan problem. First, the Baloch are being picked up and tortured, and their bullet-riddled bodies are being dumped. The Baloch believe that the intelligence agencies or the Frontier Corps (FC) is responsible.
There is a perception in Balochistan that there is no guarantee that promises will be kept or agreements will be respected. The Baloch think that the political government is under the influence of the army. Hence, there is a gulf of mistrust between the central government and the nationalist Baloch. The government needs to understand that the recovery of missing Baloch political activists is vital for peace in Balochistan. No package can meet success if mutilated and bullet-riddled dead bodies keep on appearing in Balochistan. Each dead body sabotages the Balochistan package. The government has to establish its credibility in the eyes of the Baloch. Only then can the nationalists come back from their self-imposed exile. The government must declare and consider the Baloch nationalists as being pro-Pakistan and offer amnesty to all. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011%5C11%5C30%5Cstory_30-11-2011_pg3_4

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