Protests are taking place across Pakistan as Baloch families continue to raise their demands against the enforced disappearances and killings of people, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee shared the details on Wednesday.
The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) condemned the continued detention of its central leadership under the Maintenance of Public Order (3MPO) law, calling it a blatant violation of Pakistan's own constitution.
Fuelling many such questions, a raging fire of anti Pakistan sentiment is burning fiercely in Balochistan. Thus, the politics of South Asia is gradually changing.
Within Pakistan, the unforgiving regions of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan have had an especially violent ‘gun-culture’, for a long time. Bloody, inter-tribal, anti- ‘foreigner’ and familial feuds are a way of life, and often the family sentinels peer at their neighbours through rifle ports.
The standoff between the fighters of the Baloch Liberation Army's (BLA) Majeed Brigade and the Pakistani military after the massive attack on Jaffar Express passenger train in Bolan district has finally ended after more than 24 hours, several reports indicated on Wednesday evening.
Baluchistan has been in flames in recent days. At the receiving end of a series of coordinated attacks last week, the Pakistan army suffered heavy casualties. Officially Pakistan admitted to over seventy killed including fourteen soldiers, 21 fighters of the BLA (Baluchistan Liberation Army), the organization which claimed responsibility for the attacks, and 23 Punjabis who were pulled out from public transport and executed.
Seemingly, living in denial is a Pakistani specialty, considering the defiant front that it continues to put up in the face of unprecedented socio-economic desperation, societal implosion and a civil-war-like situation when conflated with the reality in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Baluchistan etc. Even Pakistan's ostensible 'backyard' and progeny in the form of Afghan Taliban is up in arms against it, while the sectarian dissonance with a Shi'ite Iran is a permanent problem
The recent events involving charges of spying between India and Pakistan have further poisoned the atmosphere and sharpened the confrontation…
