Balochistan: The Unheard Cries of Unknown People
Submitted by Ibrahim Lone on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 09:35
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All of us have heard of Pakistan. However most people, especially those in the West perceive Pakistan as a rogue nation that sponsors and abets terrorism and terrorism (rightly so). However the knowledge of most people in general about Pakistan is extremely superficial. For example how many people know that Pakistan comprises of four provinces. Namely Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and North West Frontier Province (also called Puktunkwha)?
Pakistan was basically carved out of the Indian subcontinent on the premises that Muslims and Hindus are separate nations and they cannot co-exist in one country. This formula was called the Two nation Theory which was the brain child of Chief Architect Mohammed Ali Jinnah, also known as Qaid E Azam in Pakistan. Mohamaed Ali Jinnah, who had spent most of his lie abroad was not really a good Muslim. Chiefly owing to his liquor habit and smoking habbit (which incidentally killed him later) and the inability to complete his breakfast without ham and eggs. The main bone of contention for the Muslims who wanted a separate nation was that they could not bear the sacrilege of being ruled by kafirs whose ancestors had subdued through treachery.
However the Euphoria surrounding the creation of Pakistan was short lived. The country could not really cater to the needs of the entire Muslim Ummah living in its territory. The Baloch, Sindhi, Pashtoon, Seirakhi, etc populations were given the same treatment which is given to third grade citizens of a state. In fact, these ethnicities were only a few shades better than the minorities in terms of treatment by the majority Sunni Punjabi dominated authorities.
Out of all the ethnicities the Baloch people have suffered most under and the Administration, which is dominated by Punjabis. The region of Balochistan is mostly waste land covered by deserts and uncultivable land. However this area is also rich in mineral reserves such as natural gas and petroleum. In fact 90% of Pakistan’s energy requirements are met by the natural reserves of the province of Balochistan. However, the irony here is that this province does not even get 5% of the electricity produced from the land in this region. So much for Islamic brotherhood!
The per capita Income of Balochistan is next to zilch when compared to the national average of the rest of Pakistan. Balochistan has hardly any schools or colleges except in the capital city of Quetta. The Baloch people have to travel great distances even to get basic necessities such as water and food supplies. There are hardly any roads or major railway links in Balochistan. Most Baloch people have to work as migrant labourers in the more developed cities of Karachi and Islamabad. The Pakistani Army treats the Baloch people the same way in which an invading Muslim Army would treat Dhimmies. They rape women and young girls, kill non-combatants, and generally, they spread misery amongst the Baloch population. It is not as if the Civil or Military Administration is unaware of these facts. On the other hand the Administration fully supports these cruel techniques used by the Pakistani Army to subdue the Baloch. This is actually a return gift from the Pakistani Administration for the audacity of asking the Pakistani Administration for basic human rights. There are no technical institutions where people from Balochistan can pursue education, which would enable them to achieve a respectable status. All the work in the various military or civilians are assigned to non local labour. This is not done because the Baloch people are lazy or unable to do work. Rather this is being done to add to the depravity of the already suffering people of Baluchistan.
The Baloch people who are not so religious, but fiercely independent in spirit were ultimately fed up with the Punjabi led administration, decided to rebel against the Administration. Even though there is a long history of rebellion of the Baloch people against the evil Pakistani Administration, I will confine myself to a recent event that which have become epoch in the history of Balochistan. I will tell you the short story of Nawab Akbar Bughti. He was a man who once believed in the nation of Pakistan and even occupied several important positions in the Pakistani administration unlike most of his Baloch brothers who were not so lucky. However when he came back to his native place, he was really amazed to see the barbarity with which the Pakistani army used to treat the Baloch people. He could no longer tolerate the injustice and decided to fight back the oppression. However he did not fight in the name of Islam. He fought to secure basic Human rights for his people. The Pakistani Administration decided that this impudent Baloch who had the guts to ask for equal rights should also be given a return gift. He was bombed in his house, which was a cave actually in the middle of the night. This was a lesson for rest of the Baloch people to shut up or suffer similar consequences.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, as now the Pakistani administration has found a new way of subduing the Baloch people. They have started colonising bits and parts of baloch land where they have established colonies of Punjabi ex _army men in order to destabilize the ethnological balance of the area. To add to the woes of the Baloch people, the Afghan refugees have also been provided habitations on Baloch land. This was hardly done out of compassion for the refugees. The real reason was to turn the native population of Balochistan into minorities. This way they would and are being subdued with ease.
While the Western Media chooses to cherry pick the events in Pakistan, we seldom get to hear the moans and cries of these unfortunate people who have been caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. Even as I write this article, there must be a Baloch woman who might be getting molested by the Islamic Army of Pakistan, a child who might be getting beaten up for being who he is. Nobody will be ever be able to assuage the exact extent of the atrocities that have been committed upon the Baloch population by the Pakistani Administration. I really don’t understand why the media of the free world chooses to ignore a Human tragedy which occurs every day in a country as well know as Pakistan. I also wonder why the Western leaders don’t ask the Pakistani administration as to why are these people suffering so much even after the billions of dollars as Aid money.
Some of us might argue that this has nothing to do with Islam as it is an ethnic problem. I beg to differ as I believe that this discriminatory polity is a by product of the Islamic thought. The problem starts at the grass root level as Islam propagates feudal arrangements as the concept of free land holdings, and equality in distribution of resources does not exist in Islam. Although the concept of feudalism and discrimination starts with the non Muslim Minorities, it ultimately boils down to the ethnically non-dominant Muslim minorities in the absence of a sufficient number of non Muslims who can be subdued. Soon after the Muslims of the subcontinent achieved their aim of a separate state, the innate tendencies of suppression that Islam induces in its followers cannot be subdued. Hence the poor Baloch people had to pay for being fewer in number and backward in terms of education.
Those who are still in doubt can draw examples from countries like Iraq where the Non Arab Kurdish people who were almost ethnically cleansed by the Sunni Arab led government under Saddam Hussein. Sunnis in Iran face a similar fate. The condition of non Ethnic Iranians in Iran is no better under the Shia dominated Administration. The list of those suffering includes Non Ethnic Iranian Shias who are rounded by the Iranian armed forces without any provocation. Darfur is an excellent example of my analogy. There are several parallels that can stated here to prove this analogy.
Ultimately it all boils down to the same issue - Islam. Islam is an intolerant, militant philosophy. Just like other militant philosophies, Islam has to spread in order to survive. The spread of Islam is then again a vicious cycle as the Islam will not stop here. Islam has to kill in order to survive. Islam will make people kill till humanity is history.
Although I am not an atheist or a believer of any school of religious thought sometimes, I really feel that if there is a devil then Islam is certainly his invention. There could not be a better way to do away with Humanity, could there?
The reason Balochis suffering
The reason Balochis suffering are not addressed in Western media is the same reason Kashmiri Pandits' suffering is not addresses.
Lives of people from Indian subcontinent means nothing to Westerners. Why should it ? It is all happening in far away barbaric lands to Westerners. So they keep funding Pakistani government, naively, in the hope that they will fight terrorism.
Deception has worked for Islamists.
>>>>>Human Rights You have
>>>>>Human Rights
You have done really well,posting an interview with a Leftist here. Brahmanism and fascism have a lot in common hu! I\You friend seems to be suffering from mild Amenisia, it seems. Brahmins have not ever gone and destroyed other people's places of worship in my knowledge. Can yo give us a few events where historically Brahmins destroyed the Mosques in India. I challenge you to show one incidence where Hindus destroyed the places of worship belonging to Muslims. Babri Masjid was an exception and not the rule. As for the so called depraved classes of people, they are leading the Hindu Movements today from the forefront. Do you know why? Because they are sick of fools like you telling them lies. Yes of course there are problems with the Hindu society, however they are asking efforts to sort out their problems. Quite unlike the Muslims who claim that Islam is complete and anyone who is not a Muslims is a fair game for the Jihadis. This friend of your needs some serious history lessons.
RE:So, Ibrahim Lone is a true
RE:So, Ibrahim Lone is a true Hindutva fascist masquerading as ex-Muslim! That is the true face of some upper caste Hindus like you. You can’t defeat Islam or any other religion in that matter using Muslim name like a coward.
As far as my being an Upper caste Hindu is concerned, There are many other people like Continum who can vouch that I am not one. After the heated exchanges that we have had over the present condition of Hinduism in India. However you have yet to substantiate your claims. I asked you to prove if Brahmins have demolished Mosques ever in the history of India. You provided none. I have written extensively about the invading Muslim Hordes destroyed India in a series of three articles in Islam-Watch. These articles contained authentic transcripts from books written either by the invaders or by their cronies. In any case by supporting Islam, you have proved that you are not a Human rights activist. You are actually a self serving leftist or a Mullah masquerading as a Human Rights activist. Just like Ali Sina does not become a Zionist by supporting the Jewish cause and Shoebat Waled does not become a Fanatical Christian by supporting the right of the Jewish people to survie, I don't become an Upper Caste Hindu Fanatic because I support the cause of Hindus to live on their land. People like you survive on hatred and rhetoric, no wonder you people end up supporting the enemies of the state and those who believe in killing those who stand for truth and freedom. I am ready to defend my stand, are you?
Ibrahim Lone has written a
Ibrahim Lone has written a thoughtful article. As for caste divide in muslim societies, the caste system in Pakistan is very strong and creates sectarian divide and strong issues, even though it is Islamic state. Lower castes (or classes) are often severely persecuted by the upper castes (or classes). Lower castes are denied privileges in many communities and violence is committed against them. A particularly infamous example of such incidents is that of Mukhtaran Mai in Pakistan, a low caste woman who was gang raped by upper caste men. In addition, educated Pakistani women from the lower castes maybe at risk to be persecuted by the higher castes for attempting to break the shackles of the local, restrictive system (that traditionally denied education to the lower castes, particularly the women).
Another recent example of this is the case of Ghazala Shaheen, a low caste Muslim woman in Pakistan who, in addition to getting a higher education, had an uncle who eloped with a woman of a high caste family. She was accosted and gang-raped by the upper-caste family. The chances of any legal action are low due to the Pakistani Government's inability to repeal the Hudood ordinance against women in Pakistan.
Islam provides equality to all is a myth.
Hinduism Vs
Hinduism Vs ISlam
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZqDG1PoFc&NR=1
Hinduism without begining and
Hinduism without begining and everlasting spritual tradition
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=dPtdPwN1bP4&feature=related
Hindu
Hindu Cosmology
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=RrZmJ_pVwdE&NR=1
An Indian Muslim's Slap To
An Indian Muslim's Slap To Zaid Hamid.AVI
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=156_x-e65Rc&feature=related
Balochistan is suffering
Balochistan is suffering because of islam
Thank you for this
Thank you for this interesting article and for bringing the plight of the balochistan people to our attention. The Human Right Activist is talking rubbish. Keep up the good work Ibrahim Lone.
HumanRight is a rabbid
HumanRight is a rabbid islamist. He has put over a cloak of Human Rightship as a devils ideology called Islam has put on itself a cloak of 'a religion of peace'. His name HumanRight is itself a big taqiyya. Respectable Lon is mistaken. There was no Babri Masjid but only an old Rama temple was there.This old Rama temple was attacked,looted by muslims in muslim rule of mugal Babur.Muslims with little altercations in it declared it forcibly to be a masjid since then.So the same old captured temple was got released by hindus afew years ago. It is only Hindus who have tolerated muslims and given them a taste of secularism & democracy.It is only Hindus who have allowed muslims to live here in truncated India even after muslim's traiterous demand for division of the motherland; even after they were given a separate land Pakistan to live. As per moral right.as per truth,as per rule, as per law,muslims should not stay here . It was the greateness (foolishness ?) of hindus who allowed these pple to live here even after bearing 800 yrs' tortures of islam in India.
Fact is that muslims in India have been pampered too much by secular-communists & congress of India for the greed of elections.These ppl can sell thier motherland for the sake of elections & votes.Lot of bangladeshis and pakistanis are infilterating in India by these politicians and are regularly being enroled as voters.And no secularists bother.Who so ever questions them is termed as RSS or Hindutvavadi.
Though I am an ex-muslim but I love Hinduism and hindus and I know that all muslims in India are direct decendents from hindu ancesters. Otherwise also hinduism is a religion which teaches Love& Freedom of thought in nutshell
It is my feeling that all muslims in India should come back to thier home
AMEEN. Nusrat Ali.
Dear Nusrat, it is not my
Dear Nusrat, it is not my intention that Muslims should revert to the religion of their ancestors. If they wish to, it is their choice. However they should know the real story which the descendant of the Arabs, the sayyeds, have hidden from them till today. If you look in India today, most of the top positions in the Ulema committees, the Waqf board, etc are taken by these descendants of the Arabs. They constitute a mere 0.15% of the Muslim community, and yet they fool the rest and make them follow their dictates showing them the fear of hell. My mission is to free these 99.85% of natives from the clutches of these foreigners. I have no respect for these so called Sayyeds. They still behave like foreigners. Their kids study in foreign Universties while the native Muslims send their kids to die in the so called Holy war.These Muslims consider the Hindu to be their enemy and the Arab to be their brother, without realizing for the Arab he is no better than a slave. Hence I feel obligated to expose Islam and these so called Sayyeds in front of the native Muslim, so that the native may realize who his actual enemy is.
Only one mosque, the Babri
Only one mosque, the Babri Mosque has been demolished in the entire history of India, that was an exception. But hundreds of Hindu temples have been demolished in Pakistan and many in Bangladesh. Many Hindu temples in Pakistan are used as latrines, many have been converted to garages and private residences.
Human Right equates Hinduism with Fascism while ignoring the fact that there are 150 million Muslims live in India. Compare that to what happened to Hindus in Pakistan. Foolishly, Indian leaders like Nehru and Gandhi encouraged Muslims to stay in India while Hindus in Pakistan were forced to leave. The facts prove that it is Muslims who are the Fascists.
At the time of the partition of India, in 1947, there were 8 million (about 30% of the population at that time) Hindus and Sikhs. Today there are only less than one million (less than 1% of today's population) If Hindus and Sikhs were allowed to remain in Pakistan there population would be about 40 million instead of less than 1 million.
Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan had 3 choices: 1) Convert to Islam, 2) Leave your country, 3) Or die. Many converted not because they wanted to, many left and millions were killed by Muslims in the name of Allah and Islam.
yes its true that Islam is an
yes its true that Islam is an intolerant, militant philosophy, and Islam has to spread and kill in order to survive
and i really like this bit saying that u really feel that if there is a devil then Islam is certainly his invention.
liked it thanx
>>>> Muslim and still
>>>> Muslim and still proud
That is excatly what I was saying all along. Thank you for reaterating my opinion that Islam is evil.
Babri masjid is actully a
Babri masjid is actully a hindu temple demoloshed by barbarian babar .then he bult mosque on the walls of the temple just as other muslim invaders demolished temples and converted them into mosques on the same walls.Evry indian knows this.Even muslims too.Muslims historian books alone reveal this.Mad muslim invaders reasonlessly hated idols and temples just as mad Mohammad who destroyed mukteswar(Mecca ) temple and converted the Garbha (kaaba) linga (central Shiv linga) as holy for muslims .Truth can not be suppressed forever.The carbon dating and construction pathes alone reveal this nude facts.But just want to close their eyes and deny these facts like Pak president Zardari by lying and rejecting cynically.
muslim and proud is hmm like
muslim and proud is hmm like saying I am brain dead for generations am still proud of it!
It seems that faithfreedom
It seems that faithfreedom has become an India centric site going by the response of so many Indians.
Ofcourse there is a reason to it. Coward hindus like me cannot vent their anger anywhere in public so this platform gives us a way to put forth our pent-up emotions.
But let me tell you, the plight of India is not just because of muslims, it is more a handiwork of Hindu leaders who have lacked the vision and courageousness to handle the situation.
The disaster was started by Gandhi and Nehru in 1947 when they allowed muslims to stay in India. Sardar Patel objected to it and warned Gandhi of the consequences but foolish Gandhi was more worried about his ideology of Ahimsa and Righteousness. See where his blunder has taken India to.
Though Hinduism has a lot to offer in the spiritual front , it is a politically failed religion.It has no one God,no centralized authority, no religious or social rules. Anyone can worship anything. You can worship a cow, a monkey , a dog , a human being and also a river. That's why Monotheistic religions make fun of us.
The social structure is totally awry.Thousands of castes.Many languages. In India every caste hates the other caste. Hindus keep fighting among themselves.
Do you expect that a religion, which has such a nonsense system, can ever fight the fascism and cruelness of muslims who become united in the name of Islam and Prophet Muhammad even though they may fight among themselves?
Also, I request Faithfreedom to filter out posts of fake muslims like Mr.Nusrat Ali who are actually hindus but pretend to be muslims. People like them will erode the credibility of the site and make you people a laughing stock.
Also, I would like comments and feeds from Israelis. Both Isreal and India are suffering alike from muslims.
Dear Rakshas, why do you have
Dear Rakshas, why do you have such hatred for your own culture. Just because your culture does not confirm to the cultural musings of other cultures does not mean that you need to be ashamed of your own. It is good to be self critical, however when it crutciality boders on self hatred or even obsession, then there is a need to slightly change one's perception. I appreciate that you recognise the shortcommings of your religion. However I disagree with you on the point that Hindus are cowards. Recently during the Rajasthan fiasco the Hindu Gujjars perpetrated the worst sort of voilence to make the government to succumb to their demands. I would say that majoriy Hindus are self serving and extremely naive, but cowards they are not. Hindus have show an extreme inability to change according to the changing situations in India. Even after 700 years of Islamic rule in India, Hindus will proudly write on the streets that Islam is a peaceful religion. I feel people like you should lead the way, so that Ex-Muslims like me can get the courage to come and speak against Islam, in public.
i like yr new look
i like yr new look site,good,pls keep up the good work.NEW KALIMA : there is no pig-dog hybrid but jehova/jesus/akllah and muhamed is his piss-poo-poo-pim.pig-dog piss be on jehova/allah /jesus and their pimp mahamudh-muhamed
To Ibrahim Lone: Yes, we can
To Ibrahim Lone:
Yes, we can do something about it together. I have a friend who is a filmmaker.
Maybe we can rope him in and ask him to make a short documentary film on 'Islam in India' and post it on you-tube like 'Fitna'.
My email id is raakshas.1084@rediffmail.com
We can talk personally if you want to.
Thank U dear Raakshas.
Thank U dear Raakshas.
JAAHID NE MUJHE KAFIR KERKE JAANA AUR,
KAFIR YEH KEHTA HAI MUSLMAN HOON MAIN.
HR The fact that a
HR
The fact that a despicable person like you dares to call yourself Human Rights makes me sick!
Excellent article.
To Raakshas and Ibrahim
To Raakshas and Ibrahim Lone,
Be careful on these issues in India. Making films that insults Islam will be equal to your death sentence. No film maker will make such a film in India and be alive. Indian politicians will succumb to Islamic pressure in no time and you will end up in jail for causing communal problems. Both of you need to think about the legal and social consequences very thoroughly.
The film needs to be anonymous and if any person in the film who identifies you guys you are dead meat. Indian government is powerless to protect its citizens.
First I must commend Ibrahim
First I must commend Ibrahim Lone for reverting to his origin, not necessarily in religious sense but in cultural sense.
Being ashamed of your culture is akin to being ashamed of your mother. If your mother is a caring mother who took care of you the best she could even if she was illiterate and ignorant, you cannot be ashamed of her.
I agree that Hindus have many dieties and Hindus do worship rivers and mountains, monkey and elephant god as Raakshas put it. But if you talk to any Hindu, even one who is illiterate will tell you that there is one God but everyone calls Him by a different name. Hindus are also taught that everyone will take a different path and eventually arrive at the truth of God realization. This is a noble belief unlike the beliefs of Christians and Muslims.
In Christianity, you will not be saved by God unless you accept Jesus Christ as your saviour. In Islam, Allah will burn you in hell for ever if you do not accept Islam. In Hinduism, you will achieve salvation even if you are not a Hindu because eventually you will come to God realization in your own way and in your own time. There is no word for 'kaffir' or 'infidel' in Sanskrit, the sacred language of Hindus.
I would like to add few more
I would like to add few more points here. In Hinduism, God is one and is called Brahman. If you study Dvita philosophy by Madhvacharya, you will clearly understand why soul is in samsara. The intrinsic nature of soul puts him/her into samsara. Further, there is a clear description of how universe is created and annhilated again and again as a law of nature. Moksha or Nirvana is the ultimate aim of every soul.
Guys, No need to say
Guys,
No need to say anything on Hinduism. We are NOT here to proselytize and hence it is better to avoid explaining anything on this issue. Let them think whatever they want.
Welcome a lot of Indians
Welcome a lot of Indians writing comments on this site. The site has become India-centric because as one of the commentators points out, we have nowhere to look for for expressing our pent-up emotions. The media, the government, and most of the public in general in India is paralyzed and afraid of the terror that muslims can unleash if they are criticized. Ibrahim Lone is right only about some Hndus who are proud of their culture and fight back. The rest ARE in fact cowards. They are afraid of everything with the name "Hindu" in it. Had it not been for some hot-headed Hindus who create "havoc" as Ibrahim Lone puts it, many more Hindus would have been butchered by muslims in all the riots that took place in India because majority of the Hindus shun violence even if it is for self-defense. This is a gift from Gandhi, which we hold to our hearts still. Only the Hindus of Kashmir, the victims of the 1947 riots and 1921 Mopilla revolt, and the countless vicitms of Hindu-muslim riots in various parts of the country know this bitter truth that no amount of Gandhigiri will save them. The bloody history of India needs to be brought out into open through this site as the history books in India only write about the "glorious" past under the Moghul rule. Some don't even mention the name of Shivaji Maharaj who fought the Moghul empire and stopped further islamization of India at that time. More and more Indian muslims should read this and think about how they came into existence. I love this site and I have been reading this site regularly for the last 5 years. I am happy that more and more India-related articles are coming up on this site. As it is a "foreign" site, and anything "foreign", said by "foreigners" makes much more impact on the intellectual class of India, I hope that more and more Indian intellectuals will sit up and take notice of the actual problem that they are facing and do something about finishing terrorism that is due to affect India much much more in the coming times (as India still is a nation full of kafirs).
Thank you Rakshas, you and
Thank you Rakshas, you and Rajani have put in words my thoughts on this subject. But as advised by Continuum I am not going to elaborate, yet certain things have to expressed clearly. Unlike muslims and christians in Bharat who teach their children their religion (Quran in madrassas and Bible in Sunday Schools) there is no such system for hindus to learn their scriptures with the result 99% hindus do not know even the name of their religion which is Sanatana Dharma, let alone fundamentals of hinduism. 1% who know God and the parth to God are not bothered about remaining 99% guillables as the saying goes: "Those who know don't talk and those who talk do't know ". Ekam Sat Viprah bahudah vadanti. God is one wisemen call him by different names. In short it is a true democracy with full for one can choose his/her deity and worship anyway the individual likes. Unless and untill hindus develop a system whereby their children are taught Sanatana Dharma scriptures I don't find a renaisance of ancient glory in Bharat.
continuum, I don't see
continuum, I don't see anything wrong with explianing Hinduism. There are many misconceptions about Hinduism. You are right that this site is not for proselytizing.
Did our cosmos exist prior to
Did our cosmos exist prior to Big bang: This is a very meaningful article published in New Scientist in Dec 08. It talks about the creationa nd annhilation cycles of univese. www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026861.500-did-our-cosmos-exist-before-...
To Ibrahim Lone: I agree with
To Ibrahim Lone: I agree with you whole heatedly except on two things. "... I don’t become an Upper Caste Hindu Fanatic because I support the cause of Hindus to live on their land." and "Out YE foreigners of my land!!". I hope you have your history book because the last I checked Hindus weren't the original inhabitants of India.
PS: I am not a Hindu or a Muslim.
Tell me why, dear?
Tell me why, dear?
To...........
To........... Notsopolitical
Hindus were the original inhabitants of INDIA.Even if it is true it does not matter. Lies like this are perpertatued by Leftists and Muslims to deny Hindus their cultural pride so that they can reck their mental will to fight and distroy their country and culture. It is a classic weapon of enemy. A nation which does not have pride in their history can never progress.