Balochistan - A Forgotten Colony

[BalochEhr]

To Raman, no i am not feeling bad, well listen you yourself begin all this, but i said that "i dont mean that you are a pakistani agent" but you dont listened.

And Marie K, i dont understand to whom you are replying.

[BalochEhr]

There is a great demand for Baloch pictures, here are some picture links which i found intresting :
http://www.radiobalochi.org/jowanan.html some Baloch Kids

http://www.flickr.com/photos/balochmartyrs some Baloch martyrs

http://www.thebaluch.com in the front page of the website, some daily life pictures

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulvoskam ... 542758238/ photos from the coast of western Balochistan, Baloch fishermen and Baloch kids

http://www.balochwarna.com/modules/xcga ... .php?cat=2 mix pictures of Baloch and Balochistan

http://www.radiobalochi.org/jowanan.html">http://www.radiobalochi.org/jowanan.html some Baloch Kids

http://www.flickr.com/photos/balochmartyrs some Baloch martyrs

http://www.thebaluch.com in the front page of the website, some daily life pictures

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulvoskam ... 542758238/ photos from the coast of western Balochistan, Baloch fishermen and Baloch kids

http://www.balochwarna.com/modules/xcga ... .php?cat=2 mix pictures of Baloch and Balochistan

and a Balochi dance/"Chap" video

[Diri]

NOTICE: I moved all posts about language to a new topic in the LANGUAGE section - for comparison between Kurdish and Balochi languages!

[balochistan_kurd]

BALOCHISTAN CONFLICT

(1) first conflict 1948 (led by Mir Ahmad Yar Khan)
In April 1948 the central government sent the Pakistan army who forced Mir Ahmed Yar Khan to give up his state. Mir Ahmed Yar Khan signed an accession agreement ending Kalat's de facto independence. His brother, Prince Karim Khan, decided to carry on with the struggle. Basing himself in Afghanistan he conducted guerrilla warfare against the Pakistan army[1]. Later he was killed in clashes with the army along with many of his supporters


(2) Second conflict (1958-59 led by Nawab Nowroz Khan)
Nawab Nowroz Khan took up arms in resistance to the One Unit policy designed and initiated by the federal government to eliminate ethnic and provincial divides and prejudices. He and his followers were charged with treason and arrested and confined in Hyderabad jail. Five of his family members (sons and nephews) were subsequently hanged. Nawab Nowroz Khan later died in captivity

(3) Third conflict 1963-69 (led by Sher Mohammad Bijarani Marri)
After the second conflict the Federal government sent the Army to build new garrisons in the key trouble areas of Balochistan. Sher Mohammad Bijarani Marri led like-minded militants to start a guerrilla warfare against the establishment of these posts by creating its own posts of insurgency spreading over 45,000 miles (72,000 km) of land from the Mengal tribal area in the south to the Marri and Bugti tribal areas in the north. The insurgents bombed railway tracks and ambushed convoys. The Army retaliated by destroying vast areas of the Marri tribe. This insurgency ended in 1969 when Yahya Khan abolished the "One Unit" policy and the Balochs agreed to a ceasefire [3]. This eventually led to the recognition of Balochistan as the fourth province of West Pakistan (present-day Pakistan) in 1970


(4) Fourth conflict 1973-77 (led by Nawab Khair Baksh Marri)
In 1972, major political parties from a wide spectrum of political ideology united against the government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (the then President of Pakistan) and formed the National Awami Party NAP and demanded more representation for the ethnic Baloch in the government. This did not sit well with Bhutto's approach, seen by some as elitist and authoritarian. In February 1973, in the presence of news media and the Iraqi ambassador to Islamabad, the police opened a consignment of Iraqi diplomatic pouches containing arms, ammunition and guerrilla warfare literature. The Pakistani intelligence agencies claimed these arms were en route to the Baloch (Marri) insurgents of Balochistan. Citing treason, Bhutto subsequently dismissed the provincial government of Balochistan and imposed governor rule. Secretly, the intelligence agencies as well as Bhutto knew the real intended party of the arms consignment were the ethnic Balochs of Iran. This was Iraq's response to Iran's support for the Kurds in northern Iraq.

Dismissal of the provincial government led to armed insurgency. Khair Baksh Marri formed the Balochistan People’s Liberation Front (BPLF) which led large numbers of Marri and Mengal tribesmen into guerrilla warfare against the central government.
According to several authors, the Pakistani military lost 3,000 to 3,300 soldiers during the conflict with the Balochi separatists,[6] while the Balouch lost 7,300 separatists, during this period are estimated at 8,000.[6]



(5) Fifth conflict 2004-to date (lead by Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti and Mir Balach Marri)
Due to government policies in 2004 Baluchistan was up in arms against the federal government, with the Baluchistan Liberation Army, Baluchistan Liberation Front, and People's Liberation Army conducting operations. Rocket attacks and bomb blasts have been a regular feature in the provincial capital, particularly its cantonment areas of Kohlu and Sui Town, since 2000, and had claimed over 25 lives by mid-2004.

The Gwadar Port project employed close to 500 Chinese nationals by 2004. On 03 May 2004, the BLA killed three Chinese engineers working on the Port. Gwadar airport was attacked by rockets at midnight on 21 May 2004. On 09 October 2004, two Chinese engineers were kidnapped in South Waziristan in the northwest of Pakistan, one of whom was killed later on October 14 in a rescue operation.

Pakistan blames India and Iran for fanning the insurgency in Baluchistan.

Violence reached a crescendo in August 2005 when the Pakistani government killed Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, Sardar (tribal leader) who had fought against the government for decades.

the Freedom War of Balochistan is Continue in the Leadership of Commander Braimdagh Bugti ( grand son of shaheed Nawab Akbar Bugti ) .after the Martydom of Comander balach marri.