Bitter Truth  

Diagoh Murad
November 20, 2009 

The Global world is moving toward the future day by day and every living thing on
this world knows their rights & they are free to choose what is best for them. The
economical changes of different countries, the rising of global warming, American
pressure towards the Central Asian region, But still with all these problems of
today’s world there are some nation who are still living in the past. Their social
condition is not satisfactory, they lack behind today’s world in the fields of
Education, Medical Facilities & many more basic needs which are used in the daily
life of a human being. One such nation is the Baloch Nation who for most of their
struggling life has been in the dark ages of mankind.
Baloch nation even though are owner of such a great land like Balochistan which
comprises with many mineral resources likewise Gas, Copper, Gold, Coal, Silver, Oil,
Uranium, and above all biggest coastal belt, But still is a backward nation.
According to the World Bank ‘Balochistan Economic Report 2009’
“Balochistan is the largest province in Pakistan with 44 percent of the
country’s land area but only 5 percent of the population. The province is
comparatively backward and economic development is needed to deal with significant
structural problems, both political and socio-economic”
“The ‘Balochistan Economic Report 2009’, which took into account statistics
from 1972-73 to 2005-06, said the province’s economy expanded by 2.7 times in
Balochistan, 3.6 times in the NWFP and Sindh and four times in Punjab. Overall, the
size of the ‘economic pie’ rose 110 percent in the rest of the country, except
Balochistan.” 
“Balochistan ranked lowest on the ‘horizontal axis’ in 1981-82 as it was the
poorest province. It also ranks lowest on the ‘vertical axis’ because of a weak
growth performance.”
Now the above paragraph may have shed some light over what is depriving the Baloch
nation to their demanding freedom for themselves and why they are struggling with
the means for their independence. For the past 62 years Baloch nation faced genocide
after genocide, the increasing of poverty in their life and worst than all the
developing projects which brought disasters whenever they were implemented on Baloch
Nation. The new development era for Baloch nation begin in the year when General
Parvez Musharraf was President of Pakistan.
In his presidency not only Baloch descended from the poverty line but also suffered
mass migration, Thousands of Baloch people were displaced from their ancestral land
in fear of operation conducted by the orders of General Parvez Musharaf. Many
innocent Baloch youth were abducted and were tortured to death as they were called
“miscreants” by the Pakistani army, Law was handed over in the hands of
Pakistani Spy Agencies ISI, MI as they were given free hand in Balochistan.
On one occasion General Parvez Musharraf in his speech pointed fingers on three
Sardars as the obstacle in the way of development namely Nawab Khair Buksh Marri,
Nawab Akbar Bugti & Sardar Attaullah Mengal. Gwadar deep sea port was the first mega
project completed and many Baloch intellectual considered it to be ethnic cleansing
of Baloch nation because Baloch have studied from their past mistake that building a
deep sea port will not end poverty but will attract other nation namely Punjabi,
Muhajirs & Pathan, which can clearly be seen that the land in nearby Gwadar city is
being sold out to such extent which raises some points that the thought  of the
Baloch nation is correct that Government doesn’t wont solution but wants to turn
Baloch nation in minority in their own land as it has already done inside the
capital city of Balochistan Quetta which is populated mostly by the afghan refugees.
The question rises here are, How can a deep sea port be a solution to the increasing
poverty? Why the Government neglects the fact that what are the basic things which
are needed to end the misery of Baloch nation? The fact to these questions is the
Government never admired the Baloch nation. The basic needs like gas, drinking
water, education institutions, electricity & medical facilities were never produced
for Baloch nation.
Gas which is being exploited since 1958 from the Sui Gas plant located inside Dera
Bugti is being supplied to every city and region of Pakistan but many districts of
Balochistan are waiting for it. The Balochistan Economic Report 2009 by World Bank
writes these quotes for gas comprising inside
Balochistan.                                                                      

“In 1994-95, Balochistan produces 355 billion cubic feet (BCF) of gas and
accounted for nearly 56 percent of Pakistan’s total output. A decade later, the
province produce 336 (BCF) and contributed only 25 percent to national output”
The Government of Pakistan to this day confirms that the due share of royalty which
is taken by Sui Gas revenues is being given to Sardar of Dera Bugti [When Nawab
Akbar Bugti was alive the Pakistani Government have always pointed out that the Gas
royalty is given to Nawab] but the Government never mentioned that Sui Gas which is
being taken to all the districts of Punjab, Sindh & N.W.F.P has never reached to any
district of Balochistan except Quetta even Dera Bugti haven’t got Gas from where
the gas is being supplied. 
The most important thing which a human being needs is drinking water but for Baloch
nation fetching water for themselves and for their livestock becomes an everyday
struggle because in Balochistan the water and sewerage lines were never constructed.
Hub Dam was constructed so to fulfill the decreasing level of water inside Karachi
but nothing was done for the people living inside Hub district or to nearby
villages. The most disastrous thing was when the Shadi Kaur Dam which was
constructed for the people of Pasni cracked with which many people lost their lives
and many became homeless. The shadi kaur incident can be seen by this quote:
“The Shadi kaur was investigated and found that it was build by simply blocking
the flash flood water without spillway and fuses to protect the dam which resulted
in many lost of lives due to failure of dam but if Shadi kaur dam as it was
completely filled had enough storage to meet the water demands for Pasni for the
next four years”.
The World Bank has this to say to the ongoing water crisis inside Balochistan
“Water is the single most important constraint to developing rural Balochistan.
While some 87 per cent of Pakistan’s total available water is found in the river
system of the Indus basin, only five per cent of Balochistan’s landmass is
connected to the Indus basin and the remaining 95 per cent rely on non-perennial
sources. Since 97 per cent of province’s water use is by agriculture, any strategy
to deal with the water shortage has to put this sector centre stage”.
The Chagai district of Balochistan which was nuked on 28 May 1998 by the then
Government of Nawaz Sharif is still affected by radiation. The water in the district
is under severe radiation through which many people have lost their eye sight and
many lost their other senses. The Medical and Educational Facilities are absent in
many district of Balochistan which are required for better living in a society, but
the Government of Pakistan doesn’t seem to be interested to solve these crises of
Baloch nation except given them development in the name of constructing a huge deep
sea port.
The deep sea port actually is not going to solve even the tiny bit problem the
Baloch nation is facing today, the construction of Roadways were not meant to give
Baloch nation a better access to other parts of Pakistan but was to link Gwadar Deep
sea port to other areas of Pakistan. Every Government whether it be civilian or
military leadership Baloch nation suffered more problems than they were facing. For
62 years Balochistan was under military might, every day bombardment, harassment,
negligence and being third grade citizen have made Baloch nation so much depressed
that they have started not to believe in any of the claim the Government of Pakistan
makes, because in these 62 years Baloch nation has seen more dead bodies of their
families that they have stopped vowing for equal rights. The Baloch people today
face the same Government claims as they have seen in their previous days,
Balochistan Package. If we talk about the World Bank report which
 clearly state that Balochistan today is far more degraded province than the other
provinces of Pakistan than these kind of packages [Balochistan Package] will not
make any difference in its recent state because what Baloch nation demands its
never been heard by any Government of Pakistan and the demands echoed in the ruins
of Balochistan.
Talking about the due rights of Balochistan will be given like Mr Yousuf Raza
Gillani stated recently there is no truth to that because neither the Baloch nation
demanded anything nor the resistance movements have negotiated on the so called
Balochistan Package. Balochistan politically, socially & economically is neglected
and the situation inside Balochistan is not going to be resolved by the so called
Balochistan package. Balochistan political situation can be called as dangerous for
the political activists who are engaged in the surface politics because every day
the FC [Frontier Constabulary] or the Spy agencies ISI & MI are busy abducting,
torturing and even murdering the political activists whom are demanding independent.
Economically & Socially Baloch people are degraded as according to the report
submitted by World Bank that “Poverty in Balochistan has risen and become
statistically indistinguishable from that in the NWFP, the province with
 traditionally the highest measured poverty.”
Now those facts which are shown in the Balochistan Economic Report 2009 can be
called as “Bitter Truth”, because for 62 years people of Balochistan have lived
under slavery as their oppressor have looted and plundered the resources and were
never accounted for their crimes because Balochistan was not only neglected by the
Government of Pakistan but the International countries have never raised their
concerned over the worsening situation which was boiling up.
But now the time has changed and Balochistan is being recognized as being rich with
many mineral resources but neglected inside the Federation of Pakistan. Baloch
people now do not demand for equal rights because they have came up their own way to
get their rights that is demanding total independent of Balochistan for which they
are struggling whether it be Guerrilla warfare or politically, and for rebelling
against Pakistan they are not guilty because Pakistan in these 62 years didn’t
seem to care that inside its boundaries, A nation named Baloch is living but rather
the Pakistani army have been busy to genocide Baloch nation to handle them with
brute force and operation which resulted in the Baloch insurgency and with this
growing root of insurgency the densely echoed sound of Independent Balochistan has
reached the ears of international communities.
Source World Bank [BER]:
http://www.worldbank.org.pk/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/SOUTHASIAEXT/PAKISTANEXTN