For India, Balochistan has been another soft target in its bid to destabilize Pakistan. Whereas India fuels the militancy in Pakistan's North Western and FATA through a series of Consulates along the Pakistan borders, it sponsors Balochistan Liberation Front, Balochistan Republican Army and Balochistan National Army through its Consulates located at Zahedan and Mazar in Iran. Not only these Consulates provide funding and guidance to the insurgents in Balochistan they also provide explosives and weapons for terror activities inside the province. A former Rand Scholar Christine Fair, who had visited the Indian Consulate in Zahedan, has also revealed in one of her articles on India's active involvement in destabilisation of Balochistan. This fact was accepted too by a large variety of speakers at a round table conference held in Washington in the first half of this year on the subject. American analysts have also acknowledged Indian funding to the Taliban in Foreign Affairs journal published by the Council for Foreign Relations in Washington.
The root causes for occasional violence that one sees in Balochistan has never been internal poverty or lack of development therein the province but the covert operations of foreign agencies. The involvement in Balochistan affairs by RAW, MI-6 and CIA tantamount to deliberate infringement on the integrity of Pakistan by these respective countries. They greatest pawn in Balochistan being toyed by these agencies is none other than Afghanistan based Brahamdagh Bugti, the proclaimed leader of a militant group Balochistan Liberation Army' to fan out violence in Balochistan. In one of the interviews telecast by Aaj' TV, Bugti made his intentions very clear when he said that he will attack and kill non Baloch population in Balochistan. He also asked India and other powers to help him support his efforts in Balochistan.
