hearing targeting Iran and Pakistan for strategic reasons serving US foreign policy.
Is this acceptable to Human Rights Watch?
The director failed to condemn BLA terror against local Pakistani Baloch. Those who refuse to work against Pakistan are murdered. Threatening letters are sent to Baloch families that refuse to submit to the terror group. Any Pakistani Baloch political activist that doesn’t endorse BLA terrorism is killed.
The terror group has tried to incite language-based unrest by killing non-Baloch speaking Pakistanis but failed. The strong evidences of foreign-sponsored terror are completely ignored.
Why is the Pakistani director of the HRW taking sides in a strategic wrangle between two countries? Is he politically biased? If so, does that make him liable to Pakistani laws on anti-state activities? Our law ministry and foreign office must look into this.
To settle scores with our military and intelligence, some Pakistani politicians are silent on BLA terror and the role of a few Pakistanis in self-exile acting as willing instruments of other countries.
Has the US media ever given air time to OBL or Zawahiri? Does the Indian media ever interview Hafiz Saeed? Once they have raised arms and killed Pakistani civilians and soldiers, self-exiled leaders of the BLA have lost the right to act as politicians who deserve air time or newspaper space in Pakistan.
Our debate over Balochistan should not turn into an anti-military carnival to meet special agendas. The proposed all-parties-conference on Balochistan should discuss the role of powerful local politicians in preventing the access of Pakistani Baloch to good schools and healthcare.
It should take a clear position on rejecting foreign interference in domestic issues. It should outlaw individuals cooperating with foreign governments and spy agencies under the pretext of rights and grievances. No nation accepts this. So shouldn’t we.
The writer works for Geo television. Email: aqpaknationalists.com