Imran Khan Now Wants to Talk to Baloch Separatists who are Being "Used by India"

[alibaz]

WTF, They are killing our soldiers and our PM wants to talk to them.

Doors should always be kept open for those who want to revert to normal life or who are fed up with useless life in mountains. You need to segregate people so that few are left to fight with. Do you remember all conditions of Sufi Muhammad of Swat were accepted by the Federal Government of time and once he failed to comply with the conditions of his own choice, military operation was launched and whole nation backed it. The same was later expanded to all ex FATA districts. I believe its a good tactics, keep them engaged in fighting and let them waste their energies and finances to keep their people intact.

 

[ziaulislam]

PM Imran Khan says considering reaching out to insurgent groups in Balochistan

PM Imran Khan says India might have used Balochistan insurgents.But now situation is different, he says, hoping to have talks with them.PM Imran Khan slams past govts for not focusing on Balochistan.

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Imran Khan. Clueless as always about terrorism

Anything that would solve the problem..
Guns havent so far..
But it shouldnt be blanket talk or blanket guns

 

[alibaz]

Its so amazing that Pakistanis have such clarity of thought when it comes Baluchistan. This is the same clarity that India has on Kashmir

Just replace the word Baluchistan with Kashmir in the comments and you will be surprised to find how similarly we think...

Kashmir has always been a UN recognized dispute where as Balochistan has never been so, therefore absolutely no comparison. Secondly few misguided young men from two Baloch tribes do not represent whole Baloch population.

 

[Mirzali Khan]

Raheel Sharif did the same thing.

 

[Tornado23]

That is the narrative you are being fed.

People in Jammu or Ladakh or even Kargil don't give a damn f**about independence or anything. The issue is restricted to just south Kashmir region...

If majority of Baloch are with you, than how come there is an insurgency for last 70 years?

Speak to any kashmiri. They all say the same thing. They want freedom.

Also for your balochistan logic.... That's just dumb. Just because there is a minority of anti pak terrorists in balochistan does not mean they don't exist...

 

[313ghazi]

That is the narrative you are being fed.

People in Jammu or Ladakh or even Kargil don't give a damn f**about independence or anything. The issue is restricted to just south Kashmir region...

If majority of Baloch are with you, than how come there is an insurgency for last 70 years?

There hasn't been. This is propaganda. Every now and then some tribal leader has kicked off wanting federal funds. Every time they got paid it emboldened someone else.

If people in Jammu or Ladakh don't want freedom why are there 1 million armed security personnel in the region?

The latest insurgency in Kashmir is in Jammu, Shopian is in Jammu.

 

[SQ8]

Not commenting on what the PM has said - but what is important is to remove widespread political and social support for separatists. Essentially, there are actual grievances on the ground both among the poor, middle and elite classes of Balochistan which fuel the dissent.

Unless those are addressed whether by political will alone or by changing ground dynamics and providing livelihoods that outpay support for terrorism - the terrorists will always have the edge and continue to exist.

Either follow the Indian or Chinese approach of ethnic and identity cleansing or educate and empower the locals with enough authority and resources that they are able to take control.
If Balochistan has more natural and mineral resources and it results in it being the richest province so be it. The people of the land will benefit from it and provide less support to such separatism.

Finally, unless the control of Pakistani Shia communities is wrestled away from Iran - Balochistan,KP and other places will NEVER be settled. Religious leadership in Pakistan has to be Pakistani in origin otherwise your society is beholden to one nation or another.

As for the usual repetition of “sell out” PM or Cheif or this and that - it’s happening in front of all the local members and their families and friends. Its them letting it happen along with the remaining 229 million. If they haven’t done anything about it other than letting the couple of hundred repeated corrupt fraudsters decide their fates for the past 70 years; I certainly don’t see what they can achieve today.

Have a lot of differences with the current PM but what he quoted is correct “no nation gets change unless the people change themselves”

 

[Vapour]

If kids like Aftab Jattak saw that the average lifespan of a terrorist in Balochistan is 24 hours, he probably would not have joined any terror outfit.

Excellent post.

 

[khansaheeb]

WTF, They are killing our soldiers and our PM wants to talk to them.

As we have seen time and time again in almost all parts of the world that dialogue is the best solution and leads to lasting peace.

 

[BRAVO_]

these so called freedom fighters always have their back in govts. for example BLA is run by Harbiya marri who is residing in England is running BLA with the help of Mehran Marrie who is residing in Kabul, while his brother Changez Khan marri was a minster in previous govt, same way his second brother Ghazan marri is also an active politician in local politics ........... similarly Brahmudagh bugti wo is living in Switzerland is controlling BLA while his second brother shahzain bugti is a ally in PTI govt .......... so its a big mess it has nothing to do with people of Baluchistan all of them have their own personal agendas and in a poor country like pakistan you can have your whole army of criminals through spending few millions dollars. i am sure the day our political parties and our military establishment will firmly decide that no more Baluchistan insurgency this issue will be over withing days

 

[ummarz]

Pakistani spec ops have very recently conducted small scale but very violent kinetic ops in Balochistan. This statement from PMIK comes AFTER those ops. The details of those ops haven't been made public, but everyone knows that we hit them hard.

This statement is the soft approach AFTER the beating. So we are coming from a strong position.

Secondly this statement will turn away many would be insurgents as well.

Families of insurgents may begin to discourage their children from going, when they see that talks are a real possibility.

This reminds me of PMIK's peace gesture, AFTER we hit them hard on 2-27.

I am predicting a operation coming up soon, and we might see those recently acquired drones in action too

 

[Areesh]

If kids like Aftab Jattak saw that the average lifespan of a terrorist in Balochistan is 24 hours, he probably would not have joined any terror outfit.

This


You said what was needed to be said and what our PM and army chief needs to understand before they start any talks

 

[313ghazi]

AFAIK we are taking a multi pronged approach. The political approach must go hand in hand with the military approach. If nothing else - it disarms the fifth columnists spreading enemy propaganda.

 

[Pakistansdefender]

You must be very young.
Your comments are always full of emotions. And these kind of things emotions are kept 1000 yards away.
If you want afghans to talk. Why not you talk with these people. These are like 250 at max. And creates a lot of problems here and there. They are funded from abroad. They are practically playing in enemy hands. You need to use carrot and stick approach. Offer carrot to those wo how and use stick on those who don't.
This type of statement is only given after consultation with army. This is not an offhand comment. Surely if he makes some statement then it means that his military brass and intelligence bureau tells him that a new policy is devised now.
And I see media ha highlighted it too. That also shows that the statement was pre planned and media was told to highlight it a lot.
Understand this and learn something from chanakaya. Leave your emotions at him.
Look at indians how they have confused the kashmiri leadership that depite being in complete lockdown they are not ready to speak against pm or india. Pakistanis are very emotional in this regard for us its balck and white. Never grey. That why we hurt.
Every approach need

PM Imran Khan says considering reaching out to insurgent groups in Balochistan

PM Imran Khan says India might have used Balochistan insurgents.But now situation is different, he says, hoping to have talks with them.PM Imran Khan slams past govts for not focusing on Balochistan.

www.geo.tv

Imran Khan. Clueless as always about terrorism

 

[Goritoes]

Remember almost every major General believe that talking with Swat Taliban was biggest mistake as they use that time to take over entire Swat and surroundings, give the baloch same time and negotiate and you lose many areas to them, then more lives will be lost, why not take a pre-emptive action to stop them?