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Is India desperate to use Baluchistan separatists?
SAM Report, May 18, 2017
Image Credit: Karlos Zurutuza
India is getting more and more frantic about using Balochistan separatists against Pakistan as it is being suggested by various media of the country. Before taking any such measures there were always flurry of media campaigns justifying any type of action which Indian authority might go for. Now, similar pattern is taking shape on this issue. In an article published in India’s top defense portal, there is a direct urge to New Delhi to form the expatriate Baloch government in India. The formation of Tibet’s expatriate government Arunachal Dharamshala is given as reference. This campaign geared up after successful one-belt, one-road (OBO) summit that concluded last Monday in Beijing.
According to the report published by Indian Defense News, after 29 heads of government and diplomats returned home from the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) summit, they faced two questions. One, what next for India which boycotted the summit? Two, how will OBOR change the geopolitical dynamic in the arc that sweeps from China through the Eurasian land mass?
The author of the report thinks India was right to boycott the OBOR summit. From his perspective OBOR’s key component, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), is patently illegal. It passes through Azad Kashmir (Azad Kashmir) on its way to Xinjiang in northwest China. Azad Kashmir is not only illegally occupied by Pakistan; its people live under virtual dictatorship.
Hinting towards vulnerability of CPEC infrastructure in Azad Kashmir to terror attacks, the report claimed that presence of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Pakistan is now well established. It killed 25 people last Friday (May 12) in Balochistan. Top leaders in the Pakistan Senate barely escaped from the suicide bomb attack on their convoy. As ISIS is driven out of Iraq and Syria, its fighters (Arabs, Chechians and Uzbeks among others) will drift towards Pakistan. Many will step up attacks in Balochistan where the CPEC begins in the port of Gwadar.
The way this article described IS attack on Pakistan, one would think that some organized group deliberately taking the name of ‘IS’ entered Pakistan only to sabotage CPEC and the country. Recently Pakistan’s military court has sentenced Kuhibhushan Yadav, a former Indian Navy’s commander and alleged RAW spy, to death for connection with such acts.
This report mentioned the fact that Kulbhushan Jadhav was kidnapped from the Iran-Balochistan border. His case, under adjudication at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague, will focus international attention on Balochistan.
According to the defense news report, Balochistan is the key for India. New Delhi has dragged its feet over granting permission for setting up a Balochistan government-in-exile in India, similar to the Dharamsala-based Tibetan government-in-exile (now known as the Central Tibetan Administration).
On Saturday, May 13, a day before the OBOR summit began in Beijing, 10 Pakistani labourers working on a CPEC link road were shot dead just 20 km from Balochistan’s Gwadar port, which is China’s signature project within the CPEC. The Baloch Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The report added that the Baloch uprising has added to the incendiary mix in violence-torn Pakistan. Resistance is now rising rapidly. Attacks by Baloch freedom fighters on Pakistani soldiers are increasingly common. Balochistan is Pakistan’s largest province. It occupies 44 per cent of the country’s area but has only 6 per cent of its population. The rest of Pakistan – Sindh, Punjab, FATA and Khyber Pakthunkhwa – is a thin, densely populated wedge. Its agriculture is dependent on water from India’s rivers.
Disparaging China’s OBOR project the defense news report said, China is selling OBOR as a $500 billion global project (with an initial corpus of $124 billion) that will transform the economies of the countries in Asia, Europe and Africa. It has pledged large infrastructure investments in India’s neighbourhood. China has pressed India to join the OBOR project knowing fully well it violates Indian sovereignty in Azad Kashmir. For Pakistan, the $57-billion CPEC is a lifeline for a country torn apart by terrorism. Sharif returned to Islamabad from the OBOR summit in Beijing hoping OBOR and the CPEC will give Pakistan the lift its economy needs.
Defense news suggested that India must not hold back any longer. As the increasing terror attacks by Pakistan-sponsored jihadis in the Kashmir Valley have shown following the brutal murder of Lieutenant Ummer Fayaz, holding back carries a heavy cost. That cost must now be imposed on Pakistan, starting with Balochistan.
In addition to this campaign regarding Balochistan and Tibet, there is an attempt to create a kind of war-like tension in the Indian media. News has been circulated recently that Indian Air Force has been instructed to prepare for 15 days with China and 10-day war with Pakistan. The construction and import agreements of defense equipment with different countries including Israel are being repeatedly shared. The details of where the fighter planes from France will be deployed which India will receive in 2019 are being disclosed now.
Observing such behavior from Indian media, China’s influential state run news outlet Global Times commented, “Some people in India, with the ability to influence public opinion, have a shallow analysis of state interests, and an outdated understanding of geopolitics. Their stereotyped view of China continues to spread to the whole of Indian society, which may have destructive power. India and China should be vigilant about this.”
http://southasianmonitor.com/2017/05/18/india-desperate-use-baluchistan-separatists/
SAM Report, May 18, 2017
Image Credit: Karlos Zurutuza
India is getting more and more frantic about using Balochistan separatists against Pakistan as it is being suggested by various media of the country. Before taking any such measures there were always flurry of media campaigns justifying any type of action which Indian authority might go for. Now, similar pattern is taking shape on this issue. In an article published in India’s top defense portal, there is a direct urge to New Delhi to form the expatriate Baloch government in India. The formation of Tibet’s expatriate government Arunachal Dharamshala is given as reference. This campaign geared up after successful one-belt, one-road (OBO) summit that concluded last Monday in Beijing.
According to the report published by Indian Defense News, after 29 heads of government and diplomats returned home from the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) summit, they faced two questions. One, what next for India which boycotted the summit? Two, how will OBOR change the geopolitical dynamic in the arc that sweeps from China through the Eurasian land mass?
The author of the report thinks India was right to boycott the OBOR summit. From his perspective OBOR’s key component, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), is patently illegal. It passes through Azad Kashmir (Azad Kashmir) on its way to Xinjiang in northwest China. Azad Kashmir is not only illegally occupied by Pakistan; its people live under virtual dictatorship.
Hinting towards vulnerability of CPEC infrastructure in Azad Kashmir to terror attacks, the report claimed that presence of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Pakistan is now well established. It killed 25 people last Friday (May 12) in Balochistan. Top leaders in the Pakistan Senate barely escaped from the suicide bomb attack on their convoy. As ISIS is driven out of Iraq and Syria, its fighters (Arabs, Chechians and Uzbeks among others) will drift towards Pakistan. Many will step up attacks in Balochistan where the CPEC begins in the port of Gwadar.
The way this article described IS attack on Pakistan, one would think that some organized group deliberately taking the name of ‘IS’ entered Pakistan only to sabotage CPEC and the country. Recently Pakistan’s military court has sentenced Kuhibhushan Yadav, a former Indian Navy’s commander and alleged RAW spy, to death for connection with such acts.
This report mentioned the fact that Kulbhushan Jadhav was kidnapped from the Iran-Balochistan border. His case, under adjudication at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague, will focus international attention on Balochistan.
According to the defense news report, Balochistan is the key for India. New Delhi has dragged its feet over granting permission for setting up a Balochistan government-in-exile in India, similar to the Dharamsala-based Tibetan government-in-exile (now known as the Central Tibetan Administration).
On Saturday, May 13, a day before the OBOR summit began in Beijing, 10 Pakistani labourers working on a CPEC link road were shot dead just 20 km from Balochistan’s Gwadar port, which is China’s signature project within the CPEC. The Baloch Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The report added that the Baloch uprising has added to the incendiary mix in violence-torn Pakistan. Resistance is now rising rapidly. Attacks by Baloch freedom fighters on Pakistani soldiers are increasingly common. Balochistan is Pakistan’s largest province. It occupies 44 per cent of the country’s area but has only 6 per cent of its population. The rest of Pakistan – Sindh, Punjab, FATA and Khyber Pakthunkhwa – is a thin, densely populated wedge. Its agriculture is dependent on water from India’s rivers.
Disparaging China’s OBOR project the defense news report said, China is selling OBOR as a $500 billion global project (with an initial corpus of $124 billion) that will transform the economies of the countries in Asia, Europe and Africa. It has pledged large infrastructure investments in India’s neighbourhood. China has pressed India to join the OBOR project knowing fully well it violates Indian sovereignty in Azad Kashmir. For Pakistan, the $57-billion CPEC is a lifeline for a country torn apart by terrorism. Sharif returned to Islamabad from the OBOR summit in Beijing hoping OBOR and the CPEC will give Pakistan the lift its economy needs.
Defense news suggested that India must not hold back any longer. As the increasing terror attacks by Pakistan-sponsored jihadis in the Kashmir Valley have shown following the brutal murder of Lieutenant Ummer Fayaz, holding back carries a heavy cost. That cost must now be imposed on Pakistan, starting with Balochistan.
In addition to this campaign regarding Balochistan and Tibet, there is an attempt to create a kind of war-like tension in the Indian media. News has been circulated recently that Indian Air Force has been instructed to prepare for 15 days with China and 10-day war with Pakistan. The construction and import agreements of defense equipment with different countries including Israel are being repeatedly shared. The details of where the fighter planes from France will be deployed which India will receive in 2019 are being disclosed now.
Observing such behavior from Indian media, China’s influential state run news outlet Global Times commented, “Some people in India, with the ability to influence public opinion, have a shallow analysis of state interests, and an outdated understanding of geopolitics. Their stereotyped view of China continues to spread to the whole of Indian society, which may have destructive power. India and China should be vigilant about this.”
http://southasianmonitor.com/2017/05/18/india-desperate-use-baluchistan-separatists/
