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Afganistan baloch news 07 01 2013




Establishment of Boloch General Council of Afghanistan

Kabul – Afghanistan
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The Baloch ethnic group on Thursday 22nd November 2012 urged the Karzai administration to give them equal rights as given to other ethnic groups of Afghanistan, representation in different government departments and enable them to resolve their problems.

“The government had paid inadequate attention to Baloch’s welfare and prosperity over the past decade”, complained the President of Baloch General Council of Afghanistan, Abdul Karim Barahavi.

Addressing a ceremony marking the creation of the council, Barahavi said a handful of individuals from the ethnic group were working in government departments.

He said; “Three million Balochs were living in the country, where their children were receiving education in other languages. The practice is a violation of the constitution”.

Article 16 of the constitution says; “Pashto, Dari, Uzbeki, Turkmeni, Balochi, Pashai, Nuristani, Pamiri, Arabic and other languages are spoken in the country, but Pashto and Dari are the official state languages.
Uzbeki, Turkmeni, Baluchi, Pashai, Nuristani and other languages spoken -- in addition to Pashto and Dari -- are the third official language in areas where the majority speaks them.”

"Some time back, I was appointed as minister of borders and tribal affairs and then governor of Nimruz province because in my assignments it was not as a representative of the Baloch tribe, but because I together with Karzai, fought against the Soviet troops after their invasion of Afghanistan." Barahavi remarked.

Deputy President of the council, Gharzai Khwakhuzhi said; “The Baloch people too demand to have equal rights like the rest of ethnic groups living in Afghanistan.

Baloch people through out history have defended the sovereignty of this land with their blood, but sadly today their rights have been violated and they struggle to preserve their culture, language and customs as well as their presence in the current governmental departments is dull.

We also condemn any genocide that’s carried out in the name of ethnicity around the world, especially of Baloch people and support their legal and rightful demands and the Balochistan Freedom Charter.”

The council’s spokesman, Khuda-e-Nazar Sarmachar said; “The council was previously operated only in Nimruz province but luckily as of today we have elected representatives from 23 provinces across the country and with the agreement of all we have established this council which will defend the legal rights of the Baloch people across the country.

The council is established with the following members in the Head Delegation:

1 - Alhaj Abdul Karim Barahavi Baloch President of the Council
2 - Alhaj Zulfaqar Baloch Deputy President of the Council
3 - Alhaj Gharzai Khwakhuzhi Deputy President of the Council
4 - Alhaj Khuda-e-Nazar Sarmachar Spokesman
5 - Alhaj Mohammad Anwar Secretary”



Sarmachar blown gas pipe line 07 01 2013



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Dera Bugti: BRA fighters blown up two gas piplelines, supply disrupted
2013/01/07
Occupied Balochistan: Baloch Republican Army fighters have blown up two gas pipelines in Pirkoh area of Dera Bugti on Monday.

BRA fighters have blown up two gas pipelines during different attacks in Pirkoh area of Dera Bugti, in first attack, BRA fighters attached explosives to the 16-inch diameter gas pipeline from well number (15) near Pirkoh high school and an denoted it. As a result of the blast, the pipeline was completely destroyed

History of baloch people Short book




History of the Baloch people

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The Baloch people are an ethnic group that are mainly settled in the Balochistan areas of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The word Baloch representing the nation as a whole; while the word Balochi represents the language itself alone.

Etymology

Different researchers have analysed the name Baloch (Balochi : بلوچ ) or Baluch in different ways. Some says it means "Plume of Cock", based on references from Balochistan by Firdausi in which he stated that the Baloch, who fought in Ventures of Kai Khosrow, had worn cloaks with linings and a plumed turban. Others say that it means "mobile". A third group says it is a modified form of "Baloot", a Persian word which means "Desert Resider". An English researcher says that Baloch is a modified form of "Barlooch", which means "Desert Fighter." There are few mythologies about the origin of Baloch. Some claim they descendant from Aleppo (Syria) region, some claims them to be of Arab origin but the most widely research and claims are that Baloch, like the Kurds, are of Iranian race who were living in the northern part of Iranian city called Mazandaran, now province of Iran.

Balochistan

The word Balochistan is a combination of "Baloch" (a tribe) and "Stan" (living place), so Balochistan means Homeland of Baloch Nation. All Baloch tribes migrated from Sistan to Makran then to Balochistan (also known by East Balochistan) then on the basis of different reasons they migrated, and spread throughout the Sub-continent. Balochistan is the region of the Iranian Plateau and South Asia where Baloch live.

Baloch ancestry

There are different viewpoints about the origins of the Balochs, including Arabs, Turks, Iranis, and Greeks who migrated to Balochistan with Alexander The Great and did not return back. L. M. Dames says that Balochs are ancestral Iranian, who migrated from the southern coastline of the Caspian Sea. L. W. Oshanen, a well-known anthropologist of the Soviet Union, has supported Dames' theory. The northern and southern Balochs, however, consider themselves of Arab descent, and Aleppo their first homeland. There is no doubt that Baloch tribes, particularly Bugti, and Rind, joined the Balochs during wars in Baloch regions, so there were many Arabs in that area at the time. To this viewpoint that Balochs are Arabs, Rai Bahadur Hetoraam also agrees and identifies them as descendants of Hazrat Ameer Hamza, uncle of Hazrat Muhammad.
Now have an overview on those anecdote that are based upon Balochi Ancient poetry, reasoning that the Baloch are Qureshi Arabs ( Generation of Hazrat Ibrahim). All Baloch are well-renowned due to hospitality like Arabs, no doubt whom ancestor is Hazrat Ibrahim. On the other hand Balochs curls are Imitation of Spiritual Hierarchical . Prayers of al-Aqsa Mosque never shaved there poll hair. Balochs also follow the Practice of Hazrat Abraham to judge the Truth and Falsehood by moving the suspicious person on the live coal (Baloch use Specially wood of "Kaheer" (because its coal does not turns into ash within about 24 hours) .
Briefly describing, first of all a channel (about 10 ft (3.0 m) in length, 4 ft (1.2 m) in width and 3 ft (0.91 m) depth) is dug and wood of Kaheer (commonly) is burnt to prepare coal during this time a reciter recites some verses of the Qur'an, after that the suspicious person is asked to walk on the blazing coal in the presence of Above All (Muqadams, white beard men). If he is true then coal never burns his feet, a blameless Baloch has faith in this fact to that day. It is known by "Patt" in Balochi .

Ancient Baloch history

According to the Balochi narration, they are Quraishi Arabs, generation of Hazrat Ameer Hamza. When Yazeed, 2nd Caliph of Umvi Caliphate, Ejected Hazrat Imam Hussain, at that time Balochs living in Aleppo, a region in Syria also called Halab in Arabic, were confederates of Imam Hussain (A.S) against Yazeed . Yazeed Oppressed Balochs ( Then known by Balushi or Bailoos ) so they left Aleppo and migrated away . During their migration one tribe separated and moved towards the northern Egypt.
شکر الحمد گزاران ملک تھيں
.يگ وت کھوشتی مہ ملکا ، اے جھان خان گل ايں
ما مريدوں يا علی ، اے دين ايمان پشتيں
حمزہ اولاد بلوچی ، ہوب درگاہ گر دين
کل بلا بھمپور نياما ، شہر سيستان مريض ا ز حلبا پھاز کھايوں ، گوں يزيداں جھيڑويں
( Domki Epics )
In history " Koosh and Baloosh " have been described together and the same way, wrote the Arabic writers that they are same . Firdausi also narrates their same culture, and same Commander in the following epics of Shahnama:                                            


                                                            
سپاہی زگردان کوچ و بلوچ
سگاليدہ جنگيدہ مانند غوچ
کے در جہان ديد ايشان نہ ديد
نہ آہن يک انگشت نامد پديد
سپہدار شان اشکش تيز ہش
کہ باراۓ دل بود دبا مغز ہوش
در فش بياوردہ پيکر پلنگ
ہمی از در فشش بيا رند چنگ
( By: Firdausi )
It is obvious from above epics that Baluch and Kooch(Kurds), used to fight in the same way, under same commander and under the same Flag, showing a Leopard image (Commonly sign of avenge), according to Baluchi proverb " if stone can liquefy then a Baluch is not Avenger " because avenging is their instinct.
According to Arabic writers:
  1. Kuchs and Baluchs are same by ancestry.
  2. They speak their Languages, different from Persian.
  3. During the age of Arabic Conquerors, Kuchs and Baluchs lived together and belonged to same Genealogy however, they spoke different languages .
Similarly Historians claim, Language can not be the identifier of Genealogy.
In about 680, they migrated towards Kerman in Iran and stayed there for a while with peace.
It is found from the ancient Baluchi epics that there were 44 branches of Baluchs at that time . Based upon the ancient Baluchi poetry, they migrated from Karman when Emperor of Karman pressurised them to give him 44 girls from each tribe.the emperor of karman wanted to make baloch in their control, that,s why he demanded for girls, which was against the dignity of baloch.
So, the Baluchs sent 44 boys in girls' dress and before the secret opened, they decamped towards Kech and Makran in South-East, and camped near Arabian Sea. After dwelling for a short while, they inhabited the area now called Baluchistan (Eastern Baluchistan). The Emperor came back the boys and chased the Baluchs towards Kech and Makran, where he was retreated by Baluchs.
Baluchi epics relating to Baluch Ancestry,are of about 11th or 12th century that is the time of immigration from Sistan to Makran. In these epics 44 elementary branches (In some Baluchi epics 26) of Baluchs have been adverted. Some of those retained their Tribal names such as:
Magsi,Mazari, Hooth, SAJWANI,
Mugheri, Gorgage, Kalmati, Jamali, Nutkani, Malghani, Gashkori, Korai, Rakhshani, Kulachi, Rind, Qaisrani, Dareshak, Gabol, Gurmani, Khushk, Buledi, Domki, Lund, Lashari, Khosa, Jatoi, Gopang, Khurd, Dashti, Jiskani, Mirali, Leghari, Chandio.
These Baloch tribes adopted their names either from an "Abode" from where they immigrated or characterised by neighbourhood as a denotation.
For example, Qatna after Qatna in Syria Magsi after Magas, a valley in Makran, Dashti after Dasht a region in Makran, Khushk and Buledi after Khushak Buleda, a valley in Iran, Muhammad Hassani after the name (Hassan Khan), Domki after Domak, a river in Iran where they used to live. Gashkori after Gash river in Iran which irrigates Khushak Bulaida Valley. While Doodai after (Doda Khan), Jatoi (Jatto, daughter of Mir Jalal Khan), Mirali (Mir Khan), Ahmadani (Ahmad Khan), Sherhanzaee (Zinadini), Umrani (Umer Khan). Zirkani Baloch are also very vast tribe of Baloch. They belong to ZARK Khan Baloch.
Similarly, Mazari is a Balochi word meaning Lion, Khosa(Balouchi) "The warrior", Hoot (Balouchi) Brave, Gabol (Persian) Aggressor or Combatant, Bozdar (Persian ) Goat Keepers, also claimed to be derived from " Bordar " which means "Horse Bestrider" Dareshak (Persian) Brawn.Nizamani are also baloch, who are given name nizamani because of the name of an elder Sakhi Nizam.who was not only a great saint but also a mystic sufi poet of his time. His grave is in Dera Ghazi Khan in Southern Province of Punjab Pakistan.(( Bilwani)) is also a baloch tribe which speaks saraiki language.in the same way ((bughlani)) is the derived tribe from leghari tribe.they also speaks saraiki Nutkani is a famous baloch trible.they belong to Nutkani khan.--



                                     

                                    
                                  
                             
                                              
                                     
Kolachi, Kulachi or Kulache is a Baloch tribe that originated from Kulanch, Makran, Balochistan, Pakistan. Kolachi is considered to be a clan of Muhammad Hasni tribe and is settled in the provinces of Sindh in Ghotki District and Larkana District), the Punjab (in Dera Ghazi Khan District) and Balochistan (in Sibi District). Karachi city was named after Kolachi tribe as Kolachi-jo-Goth, who were main inbabitants of the village centuries ago. Mirrani baloch are found all over the Pakistan, specially in Dera Ghazi khan division.and Gurmani tribe also is settled in D.G.KHAN division.
Kulachi is a major tribe of Baloch Tribal system in D.I.KHAN.They speak siraiki language. Nutkani is a famous baloch trible.they belong to Nutkani khan.

Kolachi, Kulachi or Kulache is a Baloch tribe that originated from Kulanch, Makran, Mastoi Balochistan, Pakistan. Kolachi is considered to be a clan of Muhammad Hasni tribe and is settled in the provinces of Sindh in Ghotki District and Larkana District), the Punjab (in Dera Ghazi Khan District) and Balochistan (in Sibi District). Karachi city was named after Kolachi tribe as Kolachi-jo-Goth, who were main inbabitants of the village centuries ago.
Kulachi is a major tribe of Baloch Tribal system in D.I.KHAN. They speak siraiki language....

By,A.A.RIND.

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Hit twin transmission line in panjgoor 07 01 2013



Panjgoor mai namaloom afrad ne Tasp se f.c choki Zaraat and kallag jane wali bijli ki main transmission line ko damaka ghez mawad se taba kia jis se pure ilaqe ki bijli munkata.

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shaheed qambar chakar a man and myth


Qambar Chakar: A Man and a Myth

Qamber Chakar was abducted by Pakistani state intelligence agencies on 26 November 2010 from his house in Shahi tump. He bullet ridden body was found with his colleague student Illyas Nassar on 5 January 2011 from Pedark near Turbat. This article is being re-posted in his memory. (Baluch Sarmachar)

by: Baloch Students Action Committee, BUITEMS

Birth of a Leader

In Shahi Tump, a far-flung town of Balochistan in Kech (Turbat) district, the house of Chakar Baloch was overflowed with merriness and gleaming lights over the birth of the first son, Qambar. The boy was to become an inspriational leader for the Baloch people soon after entering his teen ages. One day, some ill-fated soldiers of darkness would walk, take this light away to the shadow of torture and death. His was a story of celebrations in unison. When he was born, the whole family, even the entire town cheered up with uncontrollable delight. When he was killed, the whole of Balochistan wept. His was a song of happiness and a melancholy.

Acquiring his primary education from the same town, Qambar was admitted at the Government College Turbat. He moved to Quetta to attain higher education at the university level because of the unavailability of a university in his native Turbat district. He managed to seek admission at the prestigious Balochistan University of Information Technology and Management Sciences (BUITMS) as a BS Economics student after passing a very competitive and anti-Baloch admission policy over there. During his one and half years BUITMS life, Quetta, Qambar emerged as an emblem of struggle for human rights, equal educational opportunities for all and Baloch national rights.

BUITMS Baloch Family:

It was another ordinary day ignorant of that I will be meeting an extraordinary man. As usual late for my lectures while rushing for the class, I heard someone calling ” Qambar!” Responding to the call I looked at a big distance on my right hand side at the corner in the lobby of the building. The call was for someone contrary to my body structure (Qambar Chakar), a skinny guy with an innocent smile holding module handbooks as well as some books that aren’t taught at the university. In Quetta, mostly students who are affiliated with politics are found holding books related to politics, history, identities and philosophy.

We built an eye contact and exchanged a smile while I moved on to attend the lecture. His appearance and first impression was fine enough for me to desire to meet him in person. Thanks to the biased admission policy of Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), we becam best of the friends.

The admission policy statement of the university states: “Balochistan University of Information Technology and Management Sciences is an equal opportunity institution and admission in all our programs is purely on merit without any distinction of race, religion, color or ethnic origin provided the learner meets the entry requirements in various programs. However, being a public sector University, it is created to serve particular needs of the Balochistan province by virtue of its location.”

A never to be practiced policy statement, beautifully articulated contrary to the ground realities of Balochistan, used to cover up the ethnic discrimination and injustice. Where the university, since its birth used to provide seats on all Pakistan open merit basis, the largest beneficiaries of that policy were the non-Baloch students coming from the Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the settlers of Quetta, Balochistan because they have access to top schools, tuition and private colleges equipped with latest computer and science laboratories so they would understandably, beat the students from the far-flung Baloch districts where no government has ever paid attention and the state of education is so deplorable that one can hardly find a appropriate functional school and the students cannot speak Urdu and use computer.

In fall 2007, the university’s highest policy making body ‘The Senate’ decided to provide seats on open merit to 70% students of Balochistan while 30% open merit was fixed for the whole country in other way reducing the exploiters from Pakistan level to Quetta level which helped grab most of the seats by the elite of Quetta city where the Baloch are in minority. Around 3000 male and female students enrolled approximately 300 were Baloch. The numbers have changed from 3000 to around 4000 while the number of Baloch students has slightly changed from 400 to approximately 470 to date in the university which offers courses in five faculties – Information & Communication Technology (ICT), Engineering, Management Sciences, Life Sciences and informatics, and Arts & Basic Sciences.

Based on the new admission policy, the results for new admissions for spring 2008 were put on notice boards. With the sense of inferiority and anxiety I along with my Baloch friends went to see the results expecting the induction of good number of Baloch students in our University. Out of 600 students given admission, only 56 were Baloch making 9% of the total seats, 62% of the seats were secured by the students belonging to the elite of Quetta city and the rest 29% were from other provinces. Grieved with anger we moved back and went towards the canteen to have a cup of tea and certainly helpless and mourn over the biased admission policy and administration of BUITEMS.

Taking his last sip of tea Qambar Malik started the conversation, “They (the Government) Governor Balochistan Owais Ahmed Ghani and President Pakistan General Musharraf in particular keeps visiting Balochistan with his sweet promises that he is sincere in building up Balochistan by initiating some Mega Projects including the deep sea port of Gwadar in addition to that they will establish an institution named BUITEMS to equip Baloch with technical education to compensate the manpower required to run the port thus ensuring fair employment for Baloch, which will avoid the import of manpower from other provinces of Pakistan. A never to be kept promise, however we saw them making the one and only Institution of higher studies on our name in Balochistan but we do not see them helping Baloch to avail from it deliberately due to their unfair admission policy moreover if we talk about it they expel us without any reason and are answerable to none. They do not care if Baloch is provided the opportunity or not but what about the new Baloch Governor, CM and elected members of the parliament, why they are silent on this?”

In agreement with Qambar Malik, “maybe we need to bring this unfair admission policy to their knowledge. After all they belong to Balochistan and are aware of the economical, social and political backwardness of their people. When they claim to resolve the issue of Balochistan then most probably they will be able to resolve the issue confronting Baloch students at BUITEMS. We replied.

Those questions needed to be answered and we restless decided to do something not for ourselves but for our other Baloch students who dream and intend to study at BUITEMS. With little fear of getting expelled from the university, we started working secretly by visiting students in person at University hostel and different students living in private accommodations, discussing with them these points and gathering them to take an action against the biasness that is depriving Baloch students from higher education.

Baloch in minority at BUITEMS, we were around 15 to 20 Baloch students who already had made a little union with good aims of helping every new comer Baloch student to get adjusted to the university and studies along with those students who already were a part of BUITEMS and needed some help in regards to their course works or any other administrative work. The Baloch students of BUITEMS were like a family bond with the strong feelings of love, mutual respect, brotherhood and the eagerness to help each other in educational as well as personal matters. The only wrong trend present among them which was positive to some extent but was a barrier when it came to take wise and bold decisions, was that the students were from different districts of Balochistan and had a sense of tribalism in a way that the students were present in different groups as well as were segmented as senior and junior students based on the length of time period they had spent at BUITEMS. So in order to gain the support of all students it was important to persuade the senior students who would then convince the rest of the junior students.

Despite not liking the trend, we went along with it waiting for the right time to challenge it and the hunt for support started where at first four senior students Mukhtar Baloch, Imran Baloch, Khurshid Baloch and Riaz Baloch appreciated and ensured their full support to promote the idea of challenging the status quo and implementation of District open merit admission policy at BUITEMS. Their support proved to be very helpful to earn the support of other students. So working out the idea we decided to meet at BMC complex hostel to make a proper plan to guide us throughout the procedure as how to achieve the set goals. Our meeting where I along with few other Baloch students and the four above mentioned senior students was present concluded on Qambar Malik to supervise the campaign and to call upon a big gathering of all Baloch students to get and share views in this regard.

A new member in BUITEMS Baloch Family:

“I concur and appreciate my Baloch brothers who realizing the need of education have arranged this gathering. No wonder we have always deliberately been kept deprived of opportunities, the other ethnicities of Pakistan define rights different to how we define it. We yet seek the very basic right of our existence as humans and we demand the education that the other people have already mastered in.” with continuous movement of his right hand he kept on speaking fluently to the gathering of Baloch students, in a very humble and polite way, quite convincing, had grabbed the attention of all audience, Qambar Chakar was the one in command.

We were all impressed by the way he spoke and conveyed the message in a way it had to be. Once the meeting was called off and students started leaving, Mukhtar Baloch said, “He (Qambar Chakar) is big man, very organized and dedicated to the Baloch cause. I know him and seen him when I was in Turbat, he brought a complete change among the students of Turbat by advocating nationalistic aspirations among them”.

The Baloch students had lately established a unit of BSO AZAD at BUITEMS that specifically worked for the educational needs of Baloch students at BUITEMS along with producing posters of the admissions announced at BUITEMS, UOB and Women University, Quetta and distributing them throughout the province to encourage students toward higher education but to avoid confrontation between different student organisations working outside BUITEMS and to earn the maximum support of every political party, all students present decided to run the campaign under the name of Baloch Students Action Committee, BUITEMS (BSAC) and ask BUITEMS’s Senate to revise the Admission policy and devolve it to District Open Merit to ensure equitable representation to all the districts of Balochistan.

Qambar Chakar quickly became friends with us because our interests were aliened that were the induction of Baloch students at BUITEMS and help the Baloch students equip themselves with the technological education to play a vital role in the political, economical and social development of their people and Balochistan. Qambar Chakar himself coming from a far-flung district of Balochistan knew well the problems confronting Baloch students and the depression it gave to the students who aiming to study at BUITEMS were deprived of admission, he dedicated himself for this good cause and we along with other family members of BUITEMS started working together on each and every step. We scheduled our campaign starting from a press conference followed by a protest demonstration, a march in front of the Balochistan Assembly on the very first day when Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani was to take his oath as CM and so forth.

Before going for the protest we conducted the primary research to formulate a draft of our demands taking into account the backwardness/deprivation of opportunities to the people of Balochistan in comparison to the other provinces and collecting information about admission policies of other universities in Balochistan and other provinces of Pakistan where District Open Merit is being practiced and enjoys a safe place in the constitution of Pakistan too. Imran Baloch helping us compiled and completed the draft to be distributed among the representatives of different political parties, Chief Minister, Governor, Chairman HEC, VC BUITEMS and different media personnel so that they could play their due role to address the issue and if they do not then we will go accordingly for protest. It is important to state that Qambar Chakar and Tariq Baloch were the only students among us who had a strong political background and had the knowledge of organizing protest demonstrations. It was Qambar Chakar through whom we found the contact details of different political parties to earn their support as well as he was the one who knew how to issue statements to the media and being a cogent orator used to address to the media personnel during protest demonstrations on behalf of BSAC.

Our press conference made the BUITEMS administration call Khurshid Baloch and Qambar Malik to clarify our stance before them which wasn’t unexpected and they were pressurized to stop the campaign and if not obeyed, the administration will take disciplinary action against them along with those supporting them but we asked them If action is be taken against us then action must be taken against Mr. Farooq Ahmed Bazai VC BUITEMS too who yet has not done PhD the minimum requirement for the post he is occupying. We enjoying the full support of Baloch students of BUITEMS together with the Pashtun students from Ziarat, Qilla Saifullah and Musa khel districts whose representation was very low due to the unfair admission policy and also the Baloch students from Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab enrolled in BUITEMS joined in to support the campaign, carried on with our scheduled program and with continuous protests for four months, meeting with the Chief Minister, Education and IT minister twice providing them a copy of our draft and briefing them on our demands, we were assured by them to be provided the right response but all in vain.

On the orders of CM the Education minister late Shafiq Ahmed Khan made an official draft in favor of District Open Merit, we were asked to collect the draft from the office of Deputy Secretary Education who happened to be a Baloch, when I along with friends of BSAC went to collect the draft, the Dep. Secretary pointed us saying you should look after your studies and engage other students in their studies rather protesting and carrying out rallies for District Open Merit. It was sad to hear that from a Baloch Bureaucrat, we replied him that if you and our fathers would have thought and done something in this regard then we would have not been protesting for our educational rights and those whom we are protesting for include your children too.

We, as said, passed the draft on to the IT minister Begam Nasreen Magsi for further proceeding to discuss this in the assembly session and after its approval ask the Governor Balochistan Nawab Zulfiqar Magsi who is also the Chancellor and Chairman of The Senate, BUITEMS to ensure its implementation but the draft remained a wasted paper to end up in a bin. Our final examinations were scheduled on 20th of July but we had entered a phase where all the Baloch students of BUITEMS were highly grieved but motivated and dedicated towards the cause we had over taken. Observing the reluctant behavior of VC BUITEMS and our own Baloch Governor and Chief Minister to resolve the issue we all students decided to take a severe action where our protests could not stir the authorities our severe action might do.

http://gmcmissing.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/buitms-students-for-change-in-admission-policy/

23 students volunteered to sit on unto death hunger strike which was not feasible so reduced to 3 where Abdul Qayyum Baloch, Khurshid Baloch and Qambar Malik decided to sit for an unto death hunger strike until a copy of the demanded notification issued by the government is handed over to us which announces the district-based open merit system at the BUITEMS. The only person we all mutually agreed on to supervise the protests while Qambar Malik heads the hunger strike camp was Qambar Chakar supported by Ejaz Zehri and he proved it that none could do that better than him where that extraordinary man mobilized the students to do protests and take out protest rallies on daily basis, covered the whole media by going to each n every media office to hand in the statements he issued on behalf of BSAC and meet and seek help of different political parties as well as the respective authorities.

The hunger strike unto death started on 11th of July, 2008. Baloch Republican Party and BSO AZAD Quetta zone presided by Shahzaib Baloch were the first and were involved a lot in the protests which later on was joined in by every Baloch nationalist parties and student organisations including BNP, BNP Awami, National Party, Baloch National Front, BSO Pajjar, BSO Mohiuddin, BRSO, BSO Gulzar and the Baloch journalists too became a part of the campaign started by the students and participated at their best especially Malik Siraj Akber who went beyond his duties in helping and highlighting the students plight.

The hunger strike reached on its 7th day where no official or respective authorities came to see the students, the Baloch students in Sweden, Karachi and different districts of Balochistan protested and held hunger strike camps in support of the students on hunger strike unto death. Qambar Chakar then said we will go to them instead they come to us and him by arranging stretchers for three of the students on hunger strike took them and marched to the Governor House. The governor asked the students on hunger strike to meet him but the protesting students demanded that negotiations should be held in front of everybody. He eventually came out to meet the protestors but rejected our demands and said a committee consisting of all political parties would meet and discuss it soon. The protesting students reaffirmed that if the Baloch students did not get the opportunity to study, they would not willingly allow others to reap the benefits.

On 21st July, the 11th day of hunger strike, when the condition of the striking students deteriorated further, Balochistan Assembly Speaker Aslam Bhootani, Sardar Aslam Bizenjo and another minister came with a notification and constituted a committee in which representatives nominated by the Baloch students were also included. They also agreed to change the existing system and extend the date of examinations too, so the strike was called off but it was not the end of the campaign.

http://www.balochistan.gov.pk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=535&Itemid=600

They may have honestly promised change but they do not decide, so, to date, that policy remains unchanged. After 2 meetings the constituted committee that was to discuss our demands decided on to provide 40% of seats on district open merit basis and 60% on all Balochistan open merit but the decision remains unimplemented to date and the students are still protesting.

Qambar Chakar an Institution within:

For some he was a member of Baloch Student Organisation AZAD and for us he was BSO AZAD. A man and a myth, an institution within was Qambar Chakar. Starting his political career as a teenager by joining BSO Mutahida as deputy president Turbat Zone and strengthened it by going through some very crucial and complex phases of Baloch students politics. He remained very loyal and highly motivated by the ideology of Baloch national interests. When he moved in to Quetta in the beginning many like me did not know about him and that was because of his spirit of generosity where he himself accomplished different tasks without taking care of who takes the credit.

He never worked for the name sake but all he knew was the benefit of Baloch nation and the whole Balochistan evidenced that during his struggle for the educational, social and political rights of the Baloch and Qambar Chakar was well known among the students and locals of Quetta city for his communication skills and vast network of contacts in the media and political circles. For many times he was even asked by the locals to host their programs they used to hold in their respective areas, Qambar too generous never said no to anyone. Whenever we heard of a protest demonstration, a rally or a Balochi deewan being held anywhere in the town, we found Qambar always in the lead.

When he was elected as Deputy Organizer BSO AZAD Shaal Zone, he ensured the Baloch students hold study circles in every institution in Quetta. The time had come when we realized that the students have build a trust in us and us in them and it was important to challenge the wrong basis of the trend of seniority among the students at BUITEMS and to devolve it to the credibility of reasonability, dedication and wisdom so that the campaign may run smoothly and everyone’s opinion be respected without the distinction of seniority or being junior. After a stiff resistance eventually majority agreed, during this Qambar Chakar played a crucial role and his goodwill was enough to convince the new comers and new trends were introduced where opinions were taken from every student and then mutual decision were taken.

He was organizer of Quetta zone but guided students of different zones too on efficiently carrying out work in a more organized way, sometimes organisational posters or stickers would run out of money then he used to spend his pocket money to get them printed. Qambar was a fluent English speaker whenever any foreign journalist was in town the political parties looked for him to speak and inform the journalists about the Baloch movement. He was equally respected among different political parties even those who had different political aspirations as that of his admired him for his commitment to the Baloch.

He was a highly organized, charismatic and punctual activist who besides his studies, did not only protested for the rights of the students but was also the voice of the Baloch missing persons where mother of every missing Baloch knows that it was him who always protested against the illegal abductions of their beloved ones and raised their plight but unfortunately he too became a victim of it on 10th of July, 2009 where at first he was whisked away by the personnel of the Frontier Corps when he had gone to the Takato Campus of the University to meet with the Vice Chancellor to speak about the issue of the district-based open merit admission policy.

On his return from the college, Qambar, who was accompanied by five other friends of his hailing from the Baloch Students Action Committee, was stopped at Chaman Pattick area by a convey of security forces. “They (personnel of the security forces) had come in eight vehicles and asked Qambar to get out of the Alto car,” said one eyewitness, “once Qambar walked towards them, we saw them putting a hand grenade in Qambar’s pocket.” According to the eyewitness, the FC officials shouted at Qambar pointing at the hand grenade: “What the hell is this? You Baloch terrorist! We have to take you in custody.” They slapped, manhandled Qambar and took him away to an unknown location while sparing his other colleagues.

Since Khurshid Baloch, Qambar Malik, Ejaz Zehri and many other students graduated, it was Qambar Chakar who along with other friends carried on with the demand of District Open Merit which was always discouraged by the administration of BUITEMS. The Baloch students accompanying him when he was abducted accused the VC BUITEMS for helping FC abduct Qambar Chakar due to his activeness and the students who boycotting their classes when protested for Qambar’s release the VC’s personal guard opened fire into the protesting students threatening them to give up their protest and demand.

Qambar was later on produced before the session court and was kept in illegal detention until April 22, 2010 where finally the court proving him to be innocent released him, on his release; he confirmed that he had been brutally tortured during the custody for being active for the educational rights of the Baloch students as well as for raising voice for the missing persons. Considering his security he had to leave his studies incomplete where he was a student of 3rd semester of BS Economics at BUITEMS and had to leave for his native home town Shahi Tump Turbat. After a little quiet period, he was once again whisked away from his house at Shahi Tump Turbat with his cousin, Irshad Baloch, on November 26, 2010 and Baloch nation was deprived of a great son of soil on 5th of January, 2011 when bullet-riddled dead body of Qambar Chakar along with Ilyas Baloch 26 years old journalist was found in a desolate place near Pasni Road, Pidrak area of Turbat, around 800-kilometers off provincial capital.

A Friend and an Inspiration:

Our relationship could be distinct from that of a blood relation and is of more value because these are the relations that we chose and make. The days we spent at BUITEMS with our BUITEMS Baloch family are the most precious days of our lives and Qambar Chakar is a great and unforgettable member of that family. We became so close that hardly a day passed when we did not meet. Our favorite meeting spots were BMC main hostel where he used to live and close to that Rasheedi Hotel, Barori and our random walks on the busy roads of Quetta where we used to tease him;

“Bichar Qambar ma sangat shartho baaz pazzor an tho baaz lagar ay, Thoohin gwaat ay byat wa tara baal dant”
(See Qambar we are all healthy enough. You are so thin that even a strong wind will blow you away)

But we knew it that day and are writing it this day that he was far better than any of us spiritually and practically and besides being thin no wind or power could blew his spirit and ideology. Qambar was a man of high spirits and was very much concerned about his friends who would always check up on his friends and would offer his assistance whenever needed and was a man one would rely on. A social man to the core with a respectful character he was loved and admired by many. Despite being the youngest of us all friends because of his credibility, wisdom and dedication he earned the title of “Kamash” the leader among his friends. His hopefulness was a cover for all those who belonged to him.

He, unlike many people, was not concerned about his health and clothing and sporadically had to go through medical checkup because of his carelessness in regards to his diet; he had solely dedicated himself for Baloch national interests as many times he would be so busy in organisational works that would not even find time to eat. The tea of Rasheedi Hotel was his favorite and we found him along with his close friends Qambar Malik, Khurshid, Ejaz Zehri, Tariq Baloch and Naseeb Badini who used to buy a local made Lemon Biscuit for each other.

He admired and was very much influenced by the struggle of Dr Allah Nizar Baloch and he himself being a good orator used to say that he admires Hammal Haider Baloch (ex central committee member of the then BSO Muttahida) as an orator and claimed him to be his teenage teacher and guide to political awareness. Qambar Chakar was a good reader with a good learner’s attitude who was always update even the time he spent in detention he could not detain his reading habit, the students who used to visit him with food and refreshment, he asked them for books and was said to spend the most of his time in reading different books where on his release he was a more literate man. He had friends from all walks of life but he liked the company of literary friends where he used to take and share knowledge based ideas and used to share his own written Balochi poetry too.

In discussions he was more of a listener than a speaker and listened very carefully and spoke little but whenever he spoke, he spoke sane. On topics which he lacked information he never said his own interpreted things but explicitly admitted he lacks information on this topic and consulted friends and books to learn about it and then spread it forward. He was a transformational leader and a teacher for his colleagues and students, whatever he learnt from books, people and the experience he gained, he consigned it at his best to his friends and companions by visiting different students and involving them in discussions.

He always encouraged students to read and take part in discussions and was never seen imposing his ideas on others but believed in convincing people with logic. We have seen him happy for students when they used to hold study circles and share information and constructive ideas which brought a smile on his face and he used to say, “we have to master technological education in this era of technology and these youth acquiring the right knowledge will be the assets of our nation,” the things that made him sad which he always in circles used to mention and criticize was blind following of political figures and criticism on other political parties. He on one hand insisted that it is important to have role models and political icons in movements but he also used to say that we must be ideologically motivated and must keep political leaders accountable.

He believed in constructive criticism and used to say that we must be concerned about our own political performance as this is what we will be accountable for and if we have objections over other political parties then rather criticizing them in our gatherings we must bring such useful policies to perform better than them and let the people and time be the judge of it as who is right and who is wrong and we must avoid being judgmental. He indeed discouraged and hated it when in public gatherings the speakers used to criticize taking names of other political parties and do character assassination of their respective leaders. He always stressed that such trends do not help us achieve our national goals and being an entity we need to take the nation along with us towards the set goals and we must use the public plate forms to promote harmony as we do not enjoy this right of criticizing others in public. He was an example of harmony, his political approach was not just restricted to the student organisation he belonged to but he respected intellect without any discrimination of which party it belongs to and used to visit the elders of different nationalist political parties to take their precious opinion and guidance.

Some students of BSAC, BUITEMS who met him a couple of weeks before he was abducted the last time, he expressed his grievances regarding the present performance of political parties in general and BSO AZAD in particular mentioning the wrong trend of criticism on different political parties as noxious at present, he knew about it that it will be dangerous for him to rejoin student politics as he was a marked man he said, “when responsibilities are on my shoulder then how can I convince myself to run away from the responsibilities” and intended to bring positive changes for which he joined the central committee of BSO AZAD but unfortunately the nature did not permit it but he managed to convey his message through his friends to his nation that needs to be addressed for the better tomorrow of Baloch nation.

We liked the biases that brought him close to us and we hate the circumstances that took him away from us. From Qambar Chakar’s murder it is clear that the cream of Baloch society is in target to deprive Baloch of progressive leaders who are the enlightener of their people. No doubt we lost a very close companion whose hopefulness was coverage to us and an inspiration and Baloch nation lost a great Hero, a great visionary and a great Leader but he died to live indeed live longer than his murderers.

[via The Baloch Hal]
 
                  myth of balochistan red sulute.
 

07 01 2013 naal firing 07:43










Naal mai namaloom afrad ki firring jis k  nateje mai haji imam buksh s/o haji noor r/obaseema janbahaq haji imam baksh hamid hameed k uncle hain aur baseema zone k sabiq sadar aur azadi pasand shaks te jo musallah difa k karendon k hathon shaheed howe.

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Quetta shall k ilaqe saryab raod par namaloom afrad ka dasti bombs se amla 3 afrad k zakmi hone ki itla hy amla abadkaron par howa hy.

rep@(Quetta). 

banok kareema

ایک غلام معاشرے میں کہیں بھی عورتیں کم درجہ نہیں ہو سکتی ، وہ بندوق چلا سکتی ہیں ، انقلاب کے ہر شعبے میں مردوں سے پیچے نہیں ہوتے ، مگر اس کردار کو نبھانے کے لیے انقلابی پارٹی اور انقلابی تنظیم کا ہونا ضروری ہے اور اس پارٹی کی مثبت سوچ اور معاشرے میں مثبت کردار ہو اور وہ مکمل طور پر عوامی ہو اور اس کی سوچ اور فکر عوام سے وابستہ ہوں ۔
 
                                       
ایک عام بلوچ اور ایک گوریلا کمانڈر میں کیا فرک ہے؟
فرک کچھ واضع نہیں اگر ہے تو صرف اپنا کہ ایک عام بلوچ جب بستر سے اٹتا ہے تو اپنے اور اپنی خاندان کے لئے اور ایک گوریلا کمانڈر اپنی سر جب ایک پھتر سے اٹاتا ہے تو ساری قوم کے کیلئے کیونکہ گوریلا کی نیند بھی ایک انقلاب کی نشان دہی دیتا ہے اور ایک عام آدمی کی نیند اسکی ناکام موت بھی ہوسکتی ہے...
    بانک کریمہ بلوچ  (سینئر وائس چیئر پرسن بی ایس او آزاد)

Charter of balochistan

Expanded Balochistan Freedom Charter

This document is based on feedback solicited following the publication of the Balochistan Freedom Charter of June 15, 2011. Like the Balochistan Freedom Charter, this document is presented for DISCUSSION, ELABORATION AND AMENDMENT.
Introduction
Edited August 24, 2011: Balochistan is an occupied land and the Baloch people have a right to self-determination in accordance with the UN Charter and international law.
Balochistan is at a crossroads. The Afghan border is poorly policed. The Taliban receive significant support from the ISI and support Punjabi operatives within Balochistan. Balochistan will either head toward becoming a new Sweden or be forced against its will to become Talibania.
Pakistan needs to be put on the spot with specific demands to end militarization, occupation and the denial of human rights, and to grant the Baloch people the right to self-determination, in accordance with the UN Charter and international law. The Baloch right to self-determination includes the right to compel the Pakistanis to exit Balochistan.
Given its coastline, minerals and irrigable land, and its intelligent industrious western-oriented population, Balochistan can reasonably aspire to become the Sweden of South Asia. All the discontented Baloch can rally around the concept “effective and fair,” and despite their many disagreements about tactics and strategy, the entire Baloch freedom movement supports a western-style liberal constitutional democracy.
The nations of the world have a right to know what the nationalist movement stands for. This document sets forth a number of principles under which a constitution for a new independent state of Balochistan can be written and outlines innovations the Baloch would like to see incorporated into its new constitution.
The constitution will ensure that citizens will have the rights, privileges and protections enjoyed by the citizens of the Western democracies, rights and privileges and protections which have been denied to them for half a century.
A new Balochistan:
1. Boundaries
Edited August 24, 2011: the boundaries of Balochistan should include all Baloch land under Pakistani occupation since 1947, as well as land once leased to the British which was historically and culturally a part of the Baluchistan confederation. Present-day Balochistan province includes part of Pakhtun lands that the Baloch do not claim sovereignty over. That land would be returned.
2. The State
2a. Balochistan will be a secular state where people of all faiths, and none, have equal legal status and where no religion is privileged in law, government or public institutions.
2b. Baloch will enjoy the free exercise of every religion so long as that causes no harm or threat to persons or property. There will be no established religion. All religions will be treated equally under the law. Balochistan will have no blasphemy law. Religious tolerance is a hallmark of the Balochi ethos. (Note for ex., the Hindu population living within the borders of Balochistan since before the time of Alexander the Great, thriving and prospering in the region of the Kali temple.)
2c. The state will set as its priorities:
1) the physical security of the Baloch people
2) the use of Baloch natural resources for the benefit of the Baloch people
3) a system of civil and criminal justice that applies equally to all Baloch
4) a taxation regime which adheres to the motto: “Where few have too much, and fewer have too little.”
5) the development of education
6) establishment of a universal healthcare system
7) job creation and economic development, including efforts to maximize tourism*
8) the development and rehabilitation of infrastructure
9) environmental protection and
10) the promotion of arts and culture. (*A Hindu pilgrimage site of major importance, Hinglaj Mata, is located in Balochistan. Additionally, Balochistan is home to some of the oldest, most slowly growing and increasingly endangered forests in the world (Channar near Quetta), mud volcanoes and at Mehrgarh, the site of the world’s biggest mammal, the Paraceratherium, etc. Balochistan has wild landscapes, unmatched on the planet, unique and striking geological formations and kilometers and kilometers of beaches. These form an immediate attraction to intrepid tourists and the basis to develop resorts suitable for visitors from all economic strata.)
2d. Balochistan will actively support efforts to stop nuclear proliferation and the spread of chemical and biological weapons.
3. Right of Return
The people in the Baloch diaspora are welcome home. The government of Balochistan shall promote and facilitate the safe and dignified return of refugees and internally displaced persons and assist them in recovering their property and possessions.
4. Citizenship
Every Baloch who can prove that at least one parent is ethnically Baloch will be entitled to the rights, privileges and immunities accorded to citizens under the new constitution, as will every person who can establish that he/she has resided principally within Balochistan for 25 years or longer. All non-Baloch currently living within Balochistan will be entitled to full protection of the laws and all rights of citizens other than the right to vote and hold public office. A mechanism will be put in place whereby resident non-Baloch and non-Baloch permitted to immigrate into Balochistan can achieve citizenship.
5. Powers of the Executive
5a. Law Enforcement
Protection of citizens and residents: Among the military and police powers of the executive will be the authority to enforce laws as necessary to protect the citizens and residents of Balochistan and their property.
The government will be empowered to limit the ownership of firearms by individual persons, including possession of concealable weapons and automatic weapons. It may choose, in the interest of peace, to not enforce this right, but it may do so at a time of its choosing.
5b. War Powers
The government will be empowered to declare itself at war with an agency, or other organized entity, and to deal with its members as enemy combatants under the laws of war. This enables a state of war against an agency, without being at war with the entire country of the agency’s origin. It would be invoked, for ex., if it were discovered that Pakistan’s Frontier Corp or ISI were systematically killing Baloch citizens. This principle is unprecedented in history, but is an obvious and necessary adaptation to the conditions of the modern world.
Posse Comitatus: The executive will command and control the army, navy, air force, coast guard and marine corp. It will be empowered to use and direct these forces in the pursuit of goals authorized by the legislature, and for short periods during time of extreme emergency until authorization by the legislature is practical. These armed forces may only be used outside the borders of Balochistan and in areas within Balochistan only where civilian government has lost control. Violation of this provision shall be an impeachable offense and subject to such criminal sanctions as the legislature may promulgate.
5c. Treaties
The government will be empowered to negotiate treaties and assume membership in organizations and associations of governments, such as the International Criminal Court, and international organizations supporting national security, economic advancement and environmental protection.
The government may form alliances with other nations to forestall the migration of jobs to locales which offer the lowest wages, the fewest protections of worker safety and the most lax environmental standards.
(Balochistan is essentially largely the same beautiful and unspoiled landscape of as it was in the time of Alexander the Great 2,000 years ago. We hope that it will be no less beautiful for our descendants 2,000 years from now. We are outraged at the despoilations of our countryside by greedy and cynical foreigners taking mineral resources and leaving a polluted and ruined landscape behind. We commit to adhere to the highest environmental and conservation standards as we extract benefit from the land’s natural resources.)
5d. Tax Power and Purpose
5d-1. Land
To forestall the development of an endemic culture of corruption and to prevent the unjust enrichment of the well-connected, the new Baloch republic will be committed under its constitution to a policy of “No Windfalls.” Land will be taxed on location value and proven mineral reserves. The government has the right to tax land based on minerals in the ground with the objective of encouraging mining of those minerals to the benefit of all. Rationale: The landowner did not put the diamonds or oil or platinum in the ground. Its presence there is none of his doing. However, if he establishes and operates a mine, he is entitled to be rewarded commensurate with his risk and effort.
The value of the minerals in the ground properly belongs to the people. Only the difference between their value at the surface and their value in the ground properly belongs to the mine operator who has brought them to the surface. The profits of the mining enterprise will be taxed like any other enterprise.
Furtherance of this policy will encourage the highest and best use of the land. The policy will discourage private persons from acquiring unearned wealth from public works, such as the purchase of land adjacent to the exit ramp on a new highway. This policy will apply to all infrastructure: roads, water supply, sewers, rail, ports, mineral deposits, etc. The discoverer of new mineral deposits is entitled to reward commensurate with the risk and expense of the discovery.
For example, if the government builds a freeway exit next to land you happen to own, you have done nothing to earn anything. You should not be enabled to realize a benefit from an increase in the value of your land generated by public effort and investment. By taxing location value of land, the government forestalls not only the injustice of such unearned benefit, but also the corruption that inevitably surrounds government projects that foreseeably increase the value of some properties.
The legislature will be empowered to tax such windfall increases, not exceeding 100%, but a wise legislature should tax it at a somewhat lower rate in order to encourage the development necessary to fully realize the new value (to encourage the investment necessary to, for example, build a truck stop at the new exit).
5d-2. Wealth taxation
The government will be empowered to tax a person’s wealth. This power is in addition to any and all other forms of taxation, including taxes on income, VAT, etc. Wealth must be reported. The government will be empowered to require wealth returns, and to tax based on the wealth indicated in the returns. In order to discourage inaccurate returns, the return will be comparable to that of an estate return filed for probate. The tax rate can be progressive, increasing with increased wealth reported.
This power can be exercised to preclude the emergence of oligarchs at the time of independence.
5d-3. Minerals
We commit to the highest environmental and conservation standards as we extract benefit from the land’s natural resources and will invite in experts like Greenpeace and others to help us steward development.
5d-4. Capital expenditures and expenses
Government budgets will distinguish between capital expenditures and operating expenses. Some items ordinarily treated as operating expenses will be treated as capital expenditures when calculating debts and deficits. Foremost among these is education. A dollar paid to a teacher is a dollar invested in a child.
5d-5. Education
The government will be empowered to create and maintain a system of public schools available to children independent of their tribe or ethnicity. Because English has become the lingua franca of our time in commerce and science and diplomacy, all school children shall have a rigorous course in English language beginning in first grade and continuing throughout. Courses other than English, and other language courses, shall be conducted in the local language where the school is located.
Private Schools shall also conform to the English requirement.
There are to be no religion classes in the public schools.
The government will be empowered to inspect private schools to ensure that they are not fostering religious intolerance, and to penalize violators.
Corporations and other businesses benefit enormously from secondary and post-secondary education. This private benefit from a public expenditure shall be taxed like any other windfall. This eliminates the unfairness of businesses free-riding on a burden born by the student, his/her family and the state. It also limits the role of student debt as a source of intimidation and self-censorship.
5d-6. Economy
Every citizen has the right to a reasonable minimum standard of living. And it is a legitimate role of the government to enable the achievement of such standard. To the extent that limitations of infrastructure and education are the obstacles to that, it is the duty of the government to overcome them as quickly as possible.
5d-7. Legalize drugs
We recognize that prohibitions against psychoactive drugs tend to create and advance dangerous criminal enterprises which are capable of irretrievably corrupting law enforcement and undermining government. We will not adopt such a prohibition. We will do everything possible internationally to encourage other countries to do the same. We shall be committed to educate the public about the dangers of such drugs, and to the treatment of those who nevertheless become addicted to them.
A major funding source for the jihadists and their ilk is the illegal drug trade. Legalizing the sale of opiates, cocaine, marijuana and other prohibited drugs will deprive jihadists of this source of funding and cripple their ability to wage war on the Baloch and the Americans. (The Americans, by adopting such a policy, could save billions in defense expenditures, as well as domestic police expenditures. A small part of those savings would more than suffice to deal with the social effects of legalization.)
6. Democratic and Personal Freedoms
A bill of rights will be introduced which will adhere to the values set forth in the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
6a. The constitution will ensure democratic and personal freedoms, including the right of natural persons to protest for the redress of grievances, freedom of speech, the press and electronic media - values enshrined in the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights and The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. It shall protect persons from discrimination against them based upon their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion and/or political affiliation. It shall guarantee the right of workers to form unions to advance their interests in matters of pay, benefits, working conditions and other issues affecting their employment.
6b. Three-verdict system
We strongly suggest the adoption in criminal matters of the three-verdict system: guilty, not proven, not guilty. This allows the liberation of individuals against whom a prosecution has not met its burden of proof, but distinguishes those whom the defense has established to be innocent of the charge, removing the stigma of suspicion that invariably accompanies mere acquittal under the two verdict system.
Under the two-verdict system juries that are in doubt about a defendant’s guilt frequently convict the defendant of a lesser charge as a compromise. Under the three verdict system, such doubts are properly resolved by a verdict of “not proven.” No one should be convicted of a crime unless a jury is convinced beyond a reasonable doubt. A conviction should never be a compromise.
6c. Courts – Federal
The federal courts shall have jurisdiction over lawsuits between members of different tribes or ethnicities and over crimes where the alleged perpetrator and victim are of different tribes or ethnicities, over lawsuits to which the government is a party, and over criminal cases where the accused with violation of federal laws.
The federal courts shall have jurisdiction over contracts involving foreign principles/nationals to prevent local leaders from being induced to agree to contract terms that are against the public interest
Federal courts may establish a financial minimum for access in civil proceedings, below which they go to municipal or local courts.
6d. Courts – Judges
Judges will be required to fully disclose their family assets and sources of income and the sources of their campaign funds and to recuse themselves from matters which can materially affect their family fortunes or those of their major contributors.
Tax returns that judges will be required to disclose shall be comparable to those of estates in probate.
6e. Crime and Punishment
The government shall have the authority to define and punish crimes.
The government’s right to punish a person for crime can only be justified by at least one of the following: incapacitation from future criminal action, deterrence of others from similar criminal action, effective rehabilitation to reduce the likelihood of a repeated offense by the offender, restitution to the victims of the crime, insofar as practical, and in rare cases, retribution necessary to prevent feuding and private vengeance.
The people shall be safe from unreasonable searches and seizures and no warrant shall issue without probable cause.
Irrespective of whether evidence was properly obtained, it may be introduced into court for its probative value. The determination of whether the evidence was improperly obtained shall be made by a body independent of the alleged offending officers’ government or agency which body shall also affix the punishment of the offending officers if a violation is found to have occurred.
The people shall be safe from coerced and fabricated confessions. To ensure this protection, interrogations shall be videotaped or audiotaped. Unless there is compelling justification for an interrogation to have not been electronically recorded, the alleged results of that interrogation shall be inadmissible in court.
Further protection shall be offered via a limited protection against self-incrimination.
Suspects in criminal proceedings shall be given the following warning: “You do not have to say anything. However, it may harm your defense if you do not mention now something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.”
Allegations of police misconduct shall be made in advance of a criminal defendant’s trial. If the accusations are found to be frivolous, that finding can be introduced against the defendant at trial.
The concept of freedom is very often a trade-off, one person’s freedom means a restriction on another person’s freedom. Private, uncontrolled unaccountable impositions on freedom have been rampant in Balochistan and it is a proper function of government to expose and limit the imposition by some private persons on others. More dangerous and more pervasive are private impositions by powerful private interests than by government and that among the duties of government is to counterbalance them. The new constitution will empower the government to limit the ability of private power to affect the public good through bribery, exercise of monopoly power, manipulation of markets and influence on elections and otherwise.
7. Free, multi-party elections
Any political party is eligible to participate in elections so long as it is pledged to uphold the values of the constitution of the Republic of Balochistan and does not, notwithstanding, advocate specific policies that would violate the constitution.
7a. Legislature – Congress
Legislators will be required to fully disclose their family assets and sources of income and the sources of their campaign funds, and to recuse themselves from voting on matters which can materially affect their family fortunes or those of their major contributors.
Returns that legislators will be `required to disclose are comparable to those of estates in probate.
7b. Elections
Elections should be held on the day or days that the largest number of people don’t work.
Instant run-off: People get to choose their first, second and third choice and the candidate that is acceptable to the largest number of voters is the winner. (Among many other virtues, this would have prevented Hitler from winning elections in 1933 with less than 40% of the vote. That virtue alone is a reason to have it everywhere.)
All voters may choose to vote either on a geographic basis or on the basis of ethnicity, religion or other preference. Seats in the legislature shall be assigned to these non-geographical groups based on the registered numbers of those who have chosen to vote on that basis, e.g., Christians, Hindus.
Rationale: Where a minority is scattered through a country, even though it may constitute a significant fraction of the national population, it may not be a majority in any geographical area, and even where it is, the majority might gerrymander districts so as to deprive the minority of all or adequate representation in the legislature. This will assure minorities the representation that their numbers entitle them to in a democratic legislature.
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Appendix I
Grievances (to come)
Appendix II
Legal justifications under International Law (to come)
Appendix III
Historical and Academic Support (to come)
Appendix IV
Allies (to come)
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For reference:
The Balochistan Freedom Charter
A programme for freedom, democracy, justice and secularism in Balochistan
Draft only - for debate, amendment and revision - 15 June 2011.
We appeal to all Baloch people to unite in support of the Baloch Freedom Charter, for the liberation of our oppressed and occupied nation and for the empowerment and welfare of our people.
We urge:
End the conflict:
1. A ceasefire and the cessation of all military operations, withdrawal of troops and paramilitaries to barracks and a halt to the construction of new military bases and outposts – with independent monitoring and supervision by UN observers and peace-keepers.
2. Release of all political prisoners and a full account of the fate of all disappeared persons.
3. Open access to all parts of Balochistan for journalists, aid agencies and human rights organisations.
4. Right of return of displaced refugees, restoration of their property and compensation for losses caused by the conflict.
5. End inward colonisation of Balochistan by non-Baloch settlers.
6. A UN-supervised referendum on self-determination, offering the people of Balochistan of the option of independence.
A new Balochistan:
7. Social justice, equality and human rights for all Baloch people.
8. Land reform – The right of every adult Baloch person to have a share of land ownership.
9. Redistribution of wealth and power to all the people of Balochistan.
10. A secular state, where people of all faiths and none have equal legal status and where no religion is privileged in law, government or public institutions.
11. Democratic and personal freedoms, including free, multi-party elections, the right to protest and freedom of speech and the press, as enshrined in the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
12. A UN Commission of Inquiry into disappeared persons, and the victims of detention without trial, torture and extra-judicial killings, including the victimisation of both Baloch national leaders and ordinary Baloch citizens.
EXPLANATORY NOTES:
This draft Baloch Freedom Charter (BFC) was drawn up by a dozen Baloch nationalist and human rights activists, with the assistance of UK human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.
It is only a proposal, for discussion and amendment as others see fit. The idea is to set out a clear agenda of what Baloch nationalists want, and the policies they would pursue in a future free and independent Balochistan.
The BFC is similar to, and modelled on, the ANC's Freedom Charter, which successfully mobilised the South African people and international public opinion against apartheid and in support of the ANC.
For the Baloch people and nationalist cause, the BFC could become a very useful and effective focus for national and international campaigns, helping build domestic and international support.
The current absence of a concrete, specific liberation programme is a major weakness.
There is an urgent need for an explicit set of proposals to deescalate the conflict and lead to Pakistani disengagement and withdrawal.
The BFC is important for four reasons:
1. The people of Balochistan have a right to know what the nationalist movement stands for. They are more likely to rally around and unite behind a clear, practical liberation programme.
2. The BFC could become a focus for uniting the diverse Baloch factions. It is worded with broad appeal, to unite the largest possible number of Baloch people, despite whatever other disagreements they might have. Maximum unity has been the key to every successful national liberation struggle. Division weakens and undermines the Baloch freedom movement.
3. Pakistan needs to be put on the spot with specific demands to end militarisation, occupation and the denial of human rights - and to secure the right to self-determination, in accordance with the UN Charter and international law.
4. The UN and governments worldwide are more likely to support the Baloch national liberation struggle if they know what Baloch nationalists are seeking and the proposed character of a future independent Balochistan. The BFC's statements about democracy, human rights and secularism are particularly important and will resonate with democratic governments, human rights organisations and UN/EU.
Please distribute to your Baloch and Pakistani contacts for discussion.
Solidarity! Peter Tatchell