Irfan Baloch
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In a joint press conference with Nawaz Sherif who is visiting Balchistan seeking an alliance with Baloch nationalists for the upcoming elections, one of the most senior Baloch leader terms the killing of the Punjabi civilians at the hands of the rebels as “silly” action by the youths and in the next sentence he mourns the disfigured bodies left on the roadside and blames it on FC and Pakistan army.
He says he understands the army operation against some “silly” youth who have gone to the mountains after killing professors, shopkeepers, labourers, doctors and teachers but says why there is no such operation in Punjab? Then he says that he is only willing to speak up like this because at his age (80+) he is no longer looking to get married so he has no fear.
For an outsider his speech is enough to bring tears in the eyes who would take his words on face value without even checking who actually are the victims of terrorism and how many of the discarded bodies belong to Baloch or Punjabis who ignore the warnings and threats from BLA to leave the province or stop writing against them.
His party has remained in power many times including his son on the helm as Balochistan Chief Minister but he doesn’t explain why the provincial grievances have never been addressed in his government.
He blames Pakistan army for having a speial vendata against Balochistan due to its army operations and terms it overreaction due to “silly” actions of Balochi youth and then he says why there has never been an operation in Punjab, to him the operations against madrassas, lal masjid and Sipah sahabah don’t count.
He mourns the death of all Pakistanis of every province but keeps the Punjabis out from his sympathy. As usual the aging sardar is using the well tried and tested formula to justify violence against the state by accusing Pakistan army and Punjab.
What a pity that he terms the terrorism of the BLA as “silly” acts which have devastated the lives of so many people and specially forced a lot of Balochis to move to other provinces.
Maybe he is complaining at the scale of the operations in Balochistan. But rest assured, if any terrorst in Punjab starts the terrorism at the scale of Balochistan that has racial hatred towards the Balochis, Sindhis or Pashtoon then Pakistan army will deal with that threat in same token. Maybe then Attah Ullah can be satisfied and can start looking for another bride.
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