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Balochistan :US,Its Allies and India getting closer to Invade,Break and occupy Pakistan?
The Gwadar Deep Seaport project has the commercial and strategic importance for Pakistan. After the construction of this port, India is no more able to impose an economic blockade of Pakistan as she did in 1971. Gwadar Port ,Balochistan-Pakistan and the Internal and external Threats America & India's Intrest in Baluchistan? Balochistan: Base camp of Great Game? India promotes terror in Balochistan: Pakistan Indian hand in Baluchistan terror: Musharraf points to obvious Zehri decides to file petition against Musharraf Musharraf blames India for unrest in Balochistan 'Proof of India's involvement in Balochistan present' India Involved in Balochistan Unrest: Shahbaz Sharif America & India's Intrest in Baluchistan?
World powers, especially the US and Russia have always remained
deeply interested in Balochistan because of its strategic location,
a long coast of warm waters and huge mineral reserves. The USSR had planned to
access the warm waters’ of the Arabian Sea through Balochistan and for that
purpose it invaded Afghanistan in 1979. However, the plan misfired
and the severe resistance of Afghans resulted in the disintegration
of the USSR. Moscow in the meanwhile, had also been supporting
movements of ‘independent Balochistan’ and ‘independent Pashtunistan’
to advance its geo-strategic interests. Balochistan: Base camp of Great Game?
The recent unrest in Balochistan has gathered the regional and
global attention once again. Balochistan wasn’t out of the focus but
operations within Pakistan and regional situation divided the
concentration. Law and order is once again out of control in the
province which is strategically very important for Pakistan and rest
of its neighbours. Natural resources like copper and gold are not
just that this province offers, what really makes it a golden egg is
its geographical location. Factors that contribute to Baluchistan’s
significance are: 1. Gawadar port, passage to Arabian Sea.
2.Adjacent Nuclear suspect, Iran 3. Neighbouring a constant warzone,
Afghanistan; a global headache Pakistan is building another port in
Balochistan which is Gawadar Port, to reduce the pressure on Karachi
port and to have another port for provincial and regional
development. This port is being built by Chinese help and
assistance. America wants to halt the Chinese steps toward “warm
waters”. Arabian Sea is known as Warm Water, for which USSR locked
its horns with Afghanistan and fell to pieces. Gawadar port offers
direct and shortest way for the Chinese exports to the Middle East
and Europe, though there are other ways but they consume oil and
time simultaneously. America is afraid of the possibility that
Gawadar will become a Chinese Naval Base in future and then U.S
naval carriers will come eyeball-to-eyeball with Chinese navy.
Afghanistan too seeks to use this shortest way for its trade and
connectivity to the rest of world through the water. India promotes terror in Balochistan: Pakistan India is interfering in Pakistan's internal affairs through "information centers" it has set up in Afghanistan and promoting terrorism in Balochistan, caretaker Information Minister Nisar Memon has said. Addressing a news conference in the southwestern city of Quetta, Memon said India should avoid interfering in Pakistan's internal matters. Such actions, he said, went against the spirit of the ongoing composite dialogue process.Referring to Indian Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta's comment that the Gwadar Port on the Balochistan coast has "serious strategic implications for India", Memon described the statement as proof of India's "involvement in promoting terrorism in Balochistan". Memon said the statement regarding Gwadar Port, which is being built by Pakistan with Chinese help, strengthens doubts about India's "involvement in attempts to create a law and order situation in Balochistan". He said India had set up 13 information centres in Afghanistan with the prime objective of spreading "disinformation" and disturbing the peace in Balochistan to "hamper the construction of Gwadar Port The port will play an important role in Pakistan's economy and provide a trade gateway for the entire region. In view of its significance, India did not want its smooth completion, Memon said."We reject the statements of Indian leaders," Memon said.Such statements could have a negative impact on bilateral relations and vitiate the atmosphere, he added."Pakistan will also not tolerate any interference in Gwadar," the minister said.Memon emphasized the government's resolve for the timely completion of the port to usher in a new era of progress and prosperity for Balochistan and the rest of Pakistan. ".(APP January 24, 2008) Indian hand in Baluchistan terror: Musharraf points to obvious | NEW YORK | RUPEE NEWS | August 5th, 2008 | Moin Ansari | A few members of the Pakistani government including President Musharraf has broken the code of silencerand finally come out and accused India and Afghanistan and placed the blame where is squarely belongs in New Delhi and Kabul. India intelligence: “‘the aim of RAW is to keep internal disturbances flaring up and the ISI preoccupied so that Pakistan can lend no worthwhile resistance to Indian designs in the region.” There is library of of information and evidence of Indian involvement in Baluchistan. the four Indian Consulates and 13 information centers are not busy processing a few dozen visas for Afghans, they are busy supporting the 4000 Indian troops. General Mehta was not running an “embassy” in Kabul, he was running a military base which is supporting the plans to import 15000 (some say targets) additional Indian troops into Afghanistan. Americans were not interested in disrupting the Kabul-based fountainhead of terrorism in Balochistan nor do they want to allocate the marvellous predator resource to neutralise the kingpin of suicide bombings against the Pakistani military establishment now hiding near the Pak-Afghan border. In the strongest evidence-based confrontation with the American security establishment since the two countries established their post-9/11 strategic alliance, Pakistani officials proved Brahamdagh Bugti’s presence in Afghan intelligence safe houses in Kabul, his photographed visits to New Delhi and his orders for terrorism in Balochistan.We wanted to know when our American friends would get interested in tracking down the terrorists responsible for hundreds of suicide bombings in Pakistan and those playing havoc with our natural resources in Balochistan while sitting in Kabul and Delhi Rupeenews: August 5, 2008 by Moin Ansari Zehri decides to file petition against Musharraf
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.—AP QUETTA: Balochistan’s Minister for Services and General Administration Sanaullah Zehri said on Wednesday that he would file in a high court a petition seeking criminal proceedings against former president Pervez Musharraf for killing nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti. ‘Musharraf’s statement against Nawab Bugti is evidence that he is responsible for the murder and we will request the high court to order registration of an FIR against him,’ he said.( Dawn:Thursday, 26 Mar, 2009)
Musharraf blames India for unrest in Balochistan
Pakistan launched a fresh salvo against India on Monday, with President Pervez Musharraf blaming the neighbouring country for unrest in the southwestern province of Balochistan. Addressing a gathering of ministers and top officials in the Governor's House in the provincial capital of Quetta, Musharraf said India was behind the unrest in Balochistan. India is providing arms and material support to those involved in violence in Balochistan, Musharraf was quoted as saying by TV news channels. The President's comments came in the wake of a war of words between India and Pakistan on the suicide attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, which New Delhi has blamed on Islamabad-based Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
Pakistan denied the charge while Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani offered
to investigate the allegation if India provided evidence in this
regard. Islamabad [has
for long blamed New Delhi for backing nationalist elements who are
conducting a violent campaign in Balochistan for a greater say in
the exploitation of the province's abundant natural resources,
including minerals and gas.
'Proof of India's involvement in Balochistan present' Defence.pk:Tue Jan 10,2006 India Involved in Balochistan Unrest: Shahbaz Sharif
LAHORE:Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif said Thursday India is directly involved in Balochistan turbulence.Addressing a ceremony regarding Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s birthday, he said India attacked Pakistan if Pakistan had not nukes adding that the nation vehemently condemn Mumbai attacks and would cooperate in probe if solid evidences were provided.He said Pakistan did had not raised voice against India after the Samjhota Express incident but India making Mumbai blast an issue against Pakistan Thursday, December 25, 2008 : Pakistan News Why aren’t we acting now?
on the day after US/Nato forces invade and occupy some of Balochistan and Waziristan, what will we say we should have done, and why aren’t we doing it now? Is this far-fetched?— Reuters/File Photo THIS article poses two questions: on the day after US/Nato forces invade and occupy some of Balochistan and Waziristan, what will we say we should have done, and why aren’t we doing it now? Is this far-fetched? The facts suggest otherwise. Like the US invasion of Iraq, plans for covert operations and military strikes against Pakistan have not only circulated for long among influential US groups, they are visibly under implementation. Again, like Bush, the Obama presidency has provided the opportunity to implement these plans. Obama has been elected on a Democratic Party platform that holds that ‘The greatest threat to the security of the Afghan people — and the American people — lies in the tribal regions of Pakistan, where terrorists train, plot attacks and strike into Afghanistan and move back across the border. We cannot tolerate a sanctuary for Al Qaeda.” It defines Pakistan as ‘a nuclear-armed nation at the nexus of terror, extremism and … instability’ and goes on to promise that ‘we will lead a global effort … to secure all nuclear weapons material at vulnerable sites within four years’. There cannot be a clearer statement of US intentions. Nor are the outlines of likely US actions entirely unknown. The logic of the US action will be provided by Kampuchea; the tactics by Kosovo on our western borders and Palestine on our eastern borders. Naturally, historical analogies are far from exact, but they do merit study. Even though the contextual background of the US bombing of Kampuchea departs from the situation in Pakistan on many points, what is common to the two is that US troops are bogged down in adjacent Afghanistan, the Americans believe that their ‘enemy’ is able to find ‘sanctuaries’ and ‘safe havens’ in Pakistan, and they have been conducting covert bombing operations in Pakistan for some time, which have progressively intensified. We should not be misled by diplomatic pleasantries. In April 1969, Richard Nixon assured Prince Sihanouk that the US respected ‘the sovereignty, neutrality and territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Cambodia …’ Over the next 14 months the US dropped 2,750,000 tons of bombs on Kampuchea, more than the total dropped by the Allies in the Second World War. In 1970, Prince Sihanouk was deposed by his pro-American prime minister, Lon Nol. The country’s borders were closed, and the US and the Republic of Vietnam Army (ARVN) launched incursions into Kampuchea to attack the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (VPA/NLF) bases. The coup against Sihanouk and the US bombing destabilised Kampuchea and increased support for the Khmer Rouge. The parallels to recent developments in Pakistan are obvious. Unlike Vietnam and Kampuchea around 1960, however, the Americans do not intend to withdraw from Afghanistan. Instead, in pursuit of a ‘surge’ strategy, some 17,000 US troops are expected to arrive in Afghanistan in the coming months; and the US appears to be digging in for a long stay. This creates enormous supply problems to which solutions, significantly, are being put together without dependence on Pakistan. On March 17, 2009, Gen Duncan McNab testified before the armed services committee that the US military is reconsidering the long-term viability of the Khyber Pass supply route, through which 140 containers pass every day. Earlier this month therefore the US inaugurated the Northern Distribution Network (NDN) a rail-truck transit corridor passing through Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, with a capacity of 100 containers of non-lethal supplies per day. To consolidate the NDN, officials from US, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey met in Baku on March 9-10, 2009 to establish a supply spur in the Caucasus. Even so, the closure of the Manas airbase outside Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan in February has been a severe blow to US supply capabilities from the north. A solution to these problems can be found by creating an independent corridor to the Arabian Sea in Balochistan. This corridor, together with the occupation of Afghanistan, would also ensure US access to Central Asian crude oil, the raison d’etre of the so-called war on terror. The groundwork for this scenario has already been laid by influential US groups in the military and intelligence community: comparing Pakistan to Yugoslavia, predicting civil war and advocating break-up supported by a map in the 2006 US Armed Forces Journal. These proposals would be endorsed by US Vice President Joe Biden, who supports the division of Iraq along ethnic lines. The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), trained and financed by US and British intelligence services (among others), is said to be Washington’s chosen model to be replicated in Balochistan. On the eastern front the Indians have been pressing the Americans to accept their right to unilateral military strikes inside Pakistan in self-defence, as they accept Israel’s rights in Palestinian territories; and as the Americans have claimed for themselves throughout the world. For well over a decade now, Israel has been teaching the Indians what they have learned in their repression of the Palestinians. In the wake of the Mumbai incident, Indian planes crossed over into Pakistani air space. According to press reports, US Admiral Mullen sought formal approval for Indians to execute ‘surgical strikes’ inside Pakistan, like the US does, but Pakistan refused. Clearly, this is not the last we have heard of this and India will continue to pursue its policy of keeping Pakistan under the maximal sustainable military, diplomatic and economic pressure. To conclude, then, there are good reasons to believe that a US-Israel-India axis is in pursuit of a coordinated plan to balkanise militarily consequential Muslim states (next Pakistan, then Iran — the order reversed by Musharraf’s weak military policies); ‘secure’ Pakistan’s nuclear weapons; support Baloch irredentism not only to open a corridor both for logistic support of its troops in Afghanistan and for export of Central Asian crude oil, but also to weaken Iran and Pakistan in the long-term; coerce the Pakistan Army into a civil war (advocating suppression of the Taliban by force in Pakistan, while admitting the failure of exactly this policy in Afghanistan); and further consolidate its hold over civilian leadership by creating the kind of financial dependency that would allow it to control ‘democratic’ elections, and to annul their results if they were unfavourable (as Israel did with Hamas). Reportedly, Obama is expected to consider and approve options soon, and increased US military activity should take place once the snow melts. One hopes that a small group of patriotic officers in Pakistan are also asking themselves what can be done, and why aren’t we doing it now.( By Arshad Zaman :Dawn:Saturday, 21 March, 2009 ) |
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