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Dr Malik's Meeting with Hilary Clinton
Written Hafeez Hassanabadi,
Translated Archen Baloch
According to news reports Dr Malik, the head of National Party, has had
a meeting
with the American foreign secretary Hilary Clinton, where he has
expressed his
support for drone attacks and welcomed the Kerry Lugar bill.
What could be more apathetic then that of Dr Malik’s attitudes towards
his
national issues? This has saddened us deeply.
We know that slavery has eroded our self confidence from us, which is
why, whenever
we talk, we slavishly try to appease the masters. It is an illness, but
when this
illness affects a national leader, then it becomes hard to full the
nation out of it
abyss of slavery.
It is now incumbent upon us to remind people like Dr Malik, that when
you claim to
be a national leader, then you should be to talking about the issues of
your
unfortunate nation above all.
If you had the chance to utter a few words, then you should have
expressed your
concerns over the target killing of political leaders by the stated
sponsored
terrorism. And you should have reminded her that on the one hand, the
world powers
oppose extremism, and urge the political forces to resolve the
differences through
democratic means, but on the other, the despotic regimes and
governments, supported
by world powers, would not hesitate to kill and wound the peaceful
protesters. These
despotic regimes would abduct political leaders in the broad day light
and kill
them; their rattled bodies with bullets are thrown at unknown deserted
locations.
But the same world powers, who lecture for peaceful means for resolving
national
issues, are overlooking these despotic regimes heinous crimes, which is
regarded as
a certificate for these states to carry out their heinous crimes of
terminating the
opponents and putting restriction on democratic and political
means of struggles.
You should have reminded her about the on going military operations of
Pakistani
forces in Balochistan, the extra judicial actions and arrests, the
years old
disappearances of thousands of political workers and leaders, or exposed
the fact to
the world super power about Raskhoh nuclear tests environmental effects,
the
outbreak of different types of diseases, or the dislodging of local
people from
their villages for the past 12 years, and similarly complained about the
radiation
of Pakistan nuclear tests in the area where neither united nations nor a
credible
international nuclear inspection agency have visited the test site to
assess the
level of radiation, so that the people leaving in the surrounding
area could
be saved from the succeeding generational affects of these tests.
What on earth has urged Dr malik to talk about Kerry Lugar bill and
drone attacks
while forgetting his own people who migrated in hundreds of thousands
from Dera
Bugti and Mountainous Marri, to alien places because of Pakistani
military
onslaught, of which a large number of families have migrated to
neighboring
Afghanistan where they are, for the past five years leaving in extremely
abject
conditions, a human tragedy of which the government has adopted a
shameful
apathetic agnorance towards these people.
It is also a shame full tragedy for United Nations that they have
become totally
apathetic toward Baloch IDPs.
Is it that the Kerry Lugar bill and the drone attacks are more
important for Dr
malik then the precious lives of Jalil Reki, Zaker Majeed, Dr Deen Mohmd,
Iqbal
Baloch, Asger Ali Bungulzai, and thousands other disappeared Baloch?
An entire Pakistan is there to express like or dislike about Kerry and
Lugar bill
and drone attacks, from president and prime minister, to opposition
leader Nawaz
Shareer to Imran Khan, all are engaged in debating the issue.
But who talks about your unfortunate Baloch nation?
The American officials are frequently visiting Pakistan; Pakistan has
utterly made
it impossible for Baloch to have access to American officials. In such a
rare time
when you had the chance/ access to America secretary and allowed to
express
yourself, (For me, as a Baloch, concerning the genocide of Baloch in
Balochistan,
all other issues are of secondary important) why you wasted it by
talking about
something which is of non important to Baloch national cause? Wastage of
such
opportunity amounts to negligence, foolishness and utterly as a crime
against the
nation.
We never expect that Dr Malik or his party would present the question of
forced
annexation of Balochistan with Pakistan before an American foreign
Secretary - that
it had never met its 62 year old promises; neither we have the slightest
hope that
he would complain about the Iranian forces incursion into eastern
occupied
Balochistan where it has been given free hand to carry out the massacre
of innocent
Baloch people.
It is beyond of our even thinking that he would bring to the notice of
the foreign
secretary that in Iranian occupied Balochistan, hardly a couple of
days passes
by the enlightened scholars, seculars and political workers are not
persecuted or shot to death. The America might have played a positive
role in
stopping Iran from killing our innocent people by applying some sort of
pressure on
Iran.
Still neither can we make the mistake by demanding from him that he
should advocate
for an independent Balochistan.
But we do want to listen from him those talks; he has often been talking
in front of
Pakistani media and among Baloch people.
It is incomprehensible for us, while you’re in Malant or in Bulnegwer,
you would
express concern over killings of Baloch political leaders and speak to
the fullest
of your throat against the abduction of political workers, but the
appropriate place
where these concerns should have been raised, so that the master of
Pakistan might
prevent it from committing carnage of Baloch nation, but you remained
silent! Why?
As a Baloch leader, your failure by not mentioning or taking up the
calamitous
situation of Balochistan, the American government presumably assumes two
things out
of this: first they assume that the news and reports of military
operations in
Balochistan, target killing of political leaders, forced abduction of
political
workers, firing on peaceful demonstrations are simply not true! And that
in Pakistan
press and political expression of thought is free as claimed by Rahman
Malik. And
those Baloch political workers who are living in Pakistan and in London,
Stockholm,
Oslo and Washington having constant agitation and protesting the
Pakistani and
Iranian atrocities against Baloch would be assumed lairs.
Second; the American must be thinking, that if indeed Balochistan is in
serious
turmoil where Baloch nation is facing the worst kind of brutality of
state
terrorism, then in terms of support or opposition, the Baloch
leadership, who can
not take up its own national issues, then what the hell they can do for
us?
In fact no one can stop America from whatever it has intended to do in
the region,
so it does not matter if Pakistani president, parliament or prime
minister, find it
good or bad!!
Last year in the joint in-camera parliamentary session (probably Dr
Malik's National
Party was participating), all parliamentary parties, along with army
chief, had
asked the Americans to stop its drone attacks on Pakistani soil. The
Prime
minister became so enthusiastic in his oratory to the extent that he
assured the
public that he had asked American president Obama that they would
immediately stop
the drone attacks. We had termed this assurance as a "tasteless funny
joke" of
well-wishing, as the drone attacks are still continuing, flaunting
Pakistani so
called sovereignty in tribal areas openly. Because of fear of being
disgraced, no
leader can make any protest, why America has discarded their
parliamentary joint
decision into a dustbin?.
Kerry ludger bill too will be of no different; all will oppose it,
except Dr
malik, but no one will dare to refuse it. Banok Clinton was well aware
of the
disposition of these vagabonds, therefore, she categorically said that
“if you
don’t need the money, then don’t take it”. This stark answer zipped up
their
mouth forever.
Similarly, in this respect, if Dr Malik was to support the Kerry Lugar
bill and the
drone attacks, he could have represented his own national (Baloch)
interests. Just
as the bill stipulates Pakistan that it would not use the money against
India,
similarly, he could have asked her the same that any money or weapon
given to
Pakistan must be stipulated to the effect that it is not going to be
used against
Baloch, because until today all American aids are being used against
Baloch.
Favoring the drone attacks, similarly, he could have offered his support
for the
attacks on the condition that targets are not chosen by Pakistan against
Baloch
freedom fighters and, making sure that the general public is saved from
the attacks,
and demanded as well that drone predators are not given to Pakistan,
because we
Baloch are apprehensive of the fact that it uses them against our
nation, in instead
of Taliban.
Coming to conclusion, had Dr malik taken up any one of several issues of
Balochistan
from any angle, it would have added a few weighs not only to his party,
but a few
grains to his name too. As for as the solution of Balochistan issue is
concern, it
can not be resolved in one meeting, yet by this one could gauge the
vision and
honesty of these so called national leaders.
Oblivious to the excruciating sufferings of unfortunate smoldering
Balochistan,
today the news of this apathetic meeting has made it crystal clear that
Dr Malik and
his party is very close to Islamabad. Time will tell us what would be
the judgment
of Baloch and Balochistan regarding his apathy towards his nation, when
the “Devi
of words” would cease to manufacture excuses.
Soures: Daily Tawar
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