Nearly a million Hazaras live in Pakistan, mostly in Quetta Balochistan. Soon after the American invasion in Afghanistan after 9/11 attacks, a wave of target killings of Hazara people in Balochistan was started. On 2nd March 2004, 53 Hazara people were killed in a terrorist attack on Ashura rally. In similar kind of attack on 3rd Sep 2010, 73 Hazara people were killed in a suicide attack on a rally at Mizan chock Quetta. In 2009, 39 members of the Hazara community were killed, 81 Hazaras were targeted in 2010, over 120 members of the Shia and Hazara communities were gunned down in 2011, and around 100 pilgrims have been killed in just the first half of the current year, including the 18 killed in dasht area of kech district, when an unknown gunman opened fire on a bus heading to Iran. According to an official report, covering the last 4 years, ‘400 Shi’a and Hazaras have been killed’. According to unofficial reports around 800 Shi’a and Hazaras are killed since 2001. Most of the attacks on Hazaras in Quetta, Balochistan are claimed by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
On the other side, according to The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan the same number (around 800) of settlers, mostly Punjabis and including teachers and laborer’s, were murdered by Baloch Militant groups since 2006 and on occasions their spokesmen have justified the killings as revenge for the abductions and deaths of Baloch nationalists. Besides killing non-Baloch residents these groups are also involved in destroying national assets like gas pipelines/grid stations and targeting security forces deployed in Balochistan.
Who is behind Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Baloch Militant Groups?
To clearly understand, who is behind Lashkar-e-Jhangvi we can consider the example of “Jandullah” another terrorist organization with similar kind of strategy against Shi’a Muslims in Iran. Jandullah is responsible for assassinating Iranian government officials and killing Iranian women and children. Jandullah’s leader “Abdulmalek Regi” was captured by Iran with the help of Pakistani intelligence. In a tape aired on Press TV, Rigi claimed military support from the US, Rigi alleged that the US had promised to provide his group with military equipment and bases in Afghanistan, near the Iranian border. Report by Brian Ross and Christopher Isham of ABC News in April 2007 alleged that Jundallah‘has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials’ to destabilize the government in Iran. Until Abdulmalek Rigi was not arrested, US and International Community kept blaming Pakistan for supporting Jandullah and was pressurized to act against the group. But Abdulmalek Regi dennied the involvement of Pakistan in his statement on Press TV.
Similar is the case with Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. In the case of LEJ too, Pakistan is blamed by the US led International Community for helping the organization. They establish LEJ’s connections with the Afghan Taliban and on the basis of Tabliban-Hazara rivalry of Afghanistan; they assume that all the terrorist activities in Balochistan are done by LEJ/Taliban under the shadow of Pakistani security agencies.
Through the International/Pakistani Media it is shown to the world that no action is taken by the Pakistani security forces against the LEJ’s militants. In every discussion stress is made on the fact that no militant has been arrested or killed by the Pakistani authorities till now. Here is a line from The Guardian “Not a single person has been arrested or prosecuted; in fact, police investigators openly admit they are not even looking for anyone”.
But in actual reality it is not true. Sher Dil an alleged terrorist also known as Babu, was arrested for his reported ties with LEJ. Other than him there is a long list of arrests including Hafiz Muhammad Usman alias Abbas, Dawood Badeeni, Jalil Ababkki and Shafiq Rind. Terrorist like Khalid Bungulzai and Majeed were killed in Police encounters. In a recent Press Conference, the IG of the Frontier Corps Major General Ubaidullah Khattak said that his force had handed over 129 militants to the police. Still, when whenever one hears any discussion on a TV Channel or any article is printed in the newspaper on the issue, one will definitely find the line “not a Single person has been arrested” in it.
Some recent reports now have also revealed that Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is supported by US/NATO. The arms like P226-pistols exclusively used by NATO and US security forces were provided to LEJ through the Afghan Army.
In 1970’s, when the Baloch Militant Groups were fighting against Pakistani Security forces, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto dismissed the Balochistan Provincial government and arrested three main Baloch nationalist leader, after the Pakistan security forces discovered arms in the Iraqi embassy. These arms were supposed to be delivered to the Baloch militants groups. Pakistan’s government also announced an Iraqi, Soviet and Indian plan to break up Pakistan and Iran.
Last year Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik stated that Brahamdagh Bugti was operating terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. These camps were dismantled after Pakistan conveyed its knowledge of these camps to Kabul. Malik claimed that the president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai had accepted that militants based in Afghanistan were fuelling terrorism in Balochistan.
According to Wikileaks cable British intelligence strongly believes that New Delhi is covertly supporting the insurgency in Balochistan. That is why after the Mumbai attacks British officials feared that Delhi may respond by ramping up covert support to nationalist militants fighting the Pakistani security forces in Balochistan.
The IG -Frontier Corps Major General Ubaidullah Khattak disclosed in a press conference that 20 foreign intelligence agencies were active in the province with a mission to destabilize Balochistan. He added that these forces have established 30 training camps in Afghanistan.
Foreign involvement in Balochistan was more clarified by Justice (R) Javed Iqbal, chief of Inquiry commission on the ‘Missing Persons’. He disclosed that foreign agencies are involved in the issue of the missing persons. He said that propaganda has been done pertaining to the number of missing persons. He rejected the impression that thousands of people were missing from Balochistan. The list sent by chief minister of Baluchistan comprises of 945 missing people but actually only 460 people are missing from across the country and only 57 are from Balochistan.
All the above facts clearly show that there is involvement of Foreign Elements in Balochistan. They want to destabilize and break Pakistan. But they don’t know that Pakistan is not only a piece of land. It is a bond between 170 million people. These foreign elements tried to destabilize Pakistan from Sindh without any success; they tried to break it through KPK by 24 hrs announcements on Media that‘Islamabad is only 120 KM’s from Swat and soon Taliban will capture Islamabad’. But the people of KPK and Pakistan Army destroyed their dreams. Attempts were also made to destabilize Punjab and number of Terrorist attacks were made in Punjab with the face of “Punjabi Taliban” but that term was also buried with the hopes of foreign elements, and it is definite that Baluchistan will also treat these foreign elements with the same spirit and will not disappoint them and will once again prove that “There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan. It has come to stay” InshaAllah.
Source
0 comments:
Post a Comment