Washington's policy towards Balochistan may change, says U.S. based think tank

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The atrocities that Pakistan army commit in Occupied Balochistan is horrifying. It's about time the world gives serious attention to their struggle.
 

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No one is a permanent friend when it comes to geo-political alliances as these are formed due to mutual interests and benefits..

US uses and dumps "allies" as per self interests. Their track record for this extends to all corners of the globe not just Asia.


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Latin America wants independence from 'selfish policy of US' - political analyst

The inefficiency of the US betting on the monopolar setup and the global hegemony is best demonstrated on the example of Latin America. As in many other parts of the world, Washington's aggressive policy in that region that did not tolerate any deviation set even its closest neighbors against it.


Latin America is a unique region where left-wing politicians come to power by democratic path. They consider the globalization promoted by the USA to be imperialism unacceptable for them. The entire financial, military, political and propaganda power of the United States can do nothing with such countries as Cuba or Venezuela. They have been and remain staunch and adamant opponents of the North American model of life and thinking, which is based on the US superiority over the others and the desire to control the others. Other Latin American countries treat their neighbors with a certain degree of reserve, which however occasionally fails. In general, it would be difficult to find sincere allies and satellites of North America among the countries located in the immediate vicinity.

"The fact that the US had to give up such language and make a statement that the Monroe Doctrine is not the basis for the US policy in that region proves that Washington is forced to correct its course. That notorious doctrine of 1823 stated that both Americas were for the United States. One has to admit that Latin America increases its role in the modern world. But that does not mean that the US policy is drastically different. The same John Kerry has stated that the US will promote democracy in Latin America," Alexander Kharlamenko, director of the Research Institute of Latin America, said, recalling how recently the US Secretary of State John Kerry called Latin America the "backyard" of the US and pointed out the sharply negative reaction to that among Latin Americans.

One can hardly call such statements successful or diplomatically correct. Latin American countries have had a chance to see in detail which methods were used to promote democracy in Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya ad what results it led to. That is why the leadership of Cuba and Venezuela is prepared for the interference in internal affairs of those countries, especially given that such declarations have already been made. The "Big Stick policy" is no longer valid, but Washington fails to realize that, thus creating new and new opponents next to the US borders.

While clearly evaluating the threats coming from the United States, Latin American states create organizations that consolidate the region without the US. That is partly driven by the economic siege of Cuba, which is denounced by the entire world, but still exists as a harsh and absolutely irrational anachronism. The attempts to overthrow the governments in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador also cause a sharp reaction in the region. There has been no geopolitical success here for Washington, but new enemies have appeared. Proffesor Oleg Matveychev of the Higher School of Economics points out that North America has treated its neighbors without due respect for centuries.

"It has redrawn the maps, changed presidents and dictators, manipulated the public opinion and ruthlessly exploited Latin American countries. The US corporations pumped profits without hiding their predatory ambitions. In Latin America the living standards have been very low, there have been endless revolutions. But as a result of the current globalization, including information globalization, people there got smarter and began to understand what was going on. That is the source of the popularity of leftist ideas among the elite. They don't want to depend on the US, they need independence," Matveychev said.

Apparently, it is due to the region's growing wish for independence from the selfish policy of the US that Washington takes the participation in BRICS of Brazil, one of the key countries, with such jealousy. There is simply no place for the US in that promising and forward-looking union of strong and respectable countries.

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/voiceofrussi...-selfish-policy-of-US-political-analyst-7683/
 
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Gwadar Port: A Mega Plan to Eliminate Baloch

Balochistan has always been an attraction for superpowers for its strategic location and massive reserves of natural resources, be it the colonial era of 1700-1900 of Britain or post-colonial era of Pakistani occupation and the cold war between Soviet Union and USA. The people of Balochistan have suffered for several centuries in the hands of colonizers and occupiers. Baloch conditions have gone from bad to worse after artificial states of Iran and Pakistan occupied Balochistan in 1928 and 1948 respectively.

The people of Balochistan with huge deposit of gold, oil, gas and other natural resources have been deprived from even the basic rights of health facilities, educations, electricity and drinking water. Child mortality rate in Balochistan is one of the highest in the world. Much higher than many impoverished countries of Africa.

Pakistan since the occupation of eastern Balochistan has been engaged in exploiting the wealth of Baloch land with the help of other undemocratic states like China. History of Punjabi domination of Balochistan is a history of enforced disappearances, torture, kill and dump of Baloch youths and bombardments on Baloch villages and towns. Balochistan under occupation of Pakistan’s religious establishment is Forbidden City for international press and independent local journalists. Anybody who tried to disclose the atrocities of Pakistan’s invading army will be abducted, tortured and killed or disappeared.

Eastern occupied Balochistan, since 1948 has always, except few months in 1970s, been under direct control of Pakistani army, religious and commercial establishment. After Musharraf’s coup in 1999, the army wanted to have a complete monopoly of Balochistan. Once again unabated string of operations abductions torture and in-custody killing of Baloch youth have started and continue till date. Today, Balochistan is a free zone for Chinese exploiters, Punjabi army, ISI and their proxy extremists, Mullahs and Taliban.

To turn Baloch into minority and have full control of Balochistan, Pakistan has inaugurated mega projects in Balochistan during Musharraf era claiming to uplift the economical condition of poverty stricken Balochistan. But in reality it is a mega plan to marginalise Baloch. No colonial project on behalf of colonisers to serve the interest of colonisers would serve the subjugated people. One of the project is Gwadar port which Pakistan leased to China overseas port Holdings Company. The first phase of this project was completed in 2005. The central aim of this scheme is to connect the western landlocked parts of China and Punjab to the resources of Central Asia. At the same time for China to use Gwadar as a military outpost in her imperial rivalry against USA and India.

Gwadar Port is situated just outside the Strait of Hormuz from where 80% of world energy is flowing. China’s 60% energy supplies comes through Strait of Hormuz. It is where the US has a base. China needed cheaper and more secure alternative route to import its energy from central Asia and export Chinese goods to Europe via central Asia without any disturbance from US. For that purpose Gwadar port serves both the economic and strategic interests of Chinese imperial ambition and cuts thousands of miles which saves billions of dollars to china. To make the colonization process further easy China recently made agreements with Pakistan for connecting its western Xinjiang province to central Asia through road and rail links via Pakistan and Balochistan to have easy access on the resources of Balochistan and other Central Asian countries.

However, on the other hand Baloch nation considers these projects and agreements between china and Pakistan illegal. These agreements are not between the Baloch nation and China to serve the interest of Baloch and Chinese nations. These agreements only serve the interest of Chinese and Punjabi army, commercial and religious establishment. It is worth mentioning that Pakistan i.e. Punjabi elite and establishment for their survival after breaking from its mother land India is undefinable freak state. It is weak and extremely corrupt. The Pakistani colonialism is so irrational and out of date that it is always vulnerable to crumble. That is why they are doing everything in their power to sustain their occupation over Balochistan and plunder its resources. They are leasing Balochistan’s resources to China to serve both Chinese and its landlocked Punjab’s interests and survival.

Balochistan will be the wrestling ground for superpowers like US, China, India and Russia in coming decades. As result Baloch will suffer from both parts of Pakistani and Iranian occupied Balochistan.

India is developing Chabahar port and connecting India via Afghanistan to Chahbahar to limit Chinese influence in central Asia and have access to resources of Middle East. Because china has already encircled India through Pakistan, and Xinjinag on the western borders and Gwadar port will serve as line of defence and cantonments against Indian presence in western Balochistan and US in Hormuz. Strait of Hormuz is around 400KM away from Gwadar port, where US troops are stationed and monitoring Chinese oil supplies from middle-east.

The Baloch will suffer greatly if they fail to secure their borders and gain control of their resources. China is developing Gwadar port not only for its energy supplies but also to colonize Balochistan and use Gwadar port as a strategic garrison similar to that of Britain policy of colonizing India by means of east India company.

China seems to be treading on the footsteps of British Empire. British merchants first entered into India as traders. Then they started stationing their troops. Following that they started to control the local people and looting their wealth. In the same way China through fake agreements with Pakistan in 1970s have been looting the Saindak Gold. Chinese plan and control of Gwadar port is due to her imperial drive and desire. The aim of building Gwadar port is also being seen by many analysts as Chinese grand plan to encircle India and have her presence at the heart of rich Middle East. On the other hand China is also building ports of Chittagong in Bangladesh and Hambantota in Sri Lanka which are parts of the same scheme to sandwich India.

After British left India a segment of India was hacked out of its body to cause a permanent injury to Indian nation. Pakistanis (Punjabis) are Indian. They are Indians who are ashamed of their identity and origin! Pakistan is a fake and rather reprehensible term. It means a land of “clean people.” It just happened that the British colonisers used the Punjabi Muslims as their obedient servants and as instrument of supressing the Indian independence movement that they were gifted for loyalty to British colonial rulers with a slice of India after its independence. The Pakistan’s now elitists Punjabi the colonial servants overnight became the master of a fake country called “Pakistan.” The whole fiasco was and is as absurd as that.

The agreements between Pakistan and China also could be seen in the light of the history of Punjab expecting help from China to turn Baloch into minority just as China has done in Xinjiang. China has turned the indigenous Uighurs into minority in their homeland by settling Han Chinese people from other parts of China. In 1960s Ughuir population was around 90% but now is less than 41%. Pakistan is also following a similar plan in Balochistan with the help of China.

There is another project underway to connect western China to Balochistan via Punjab through road and rail, which is called Gwadar-Kashgar corridor. Pakistan has signed Gwadar-kashgar rail link agreements with china recently and the work is expected to begin shortly. If Pakistan and China succeed in their plans then the influx of Chinese and Punjabis to dominate Balochistan and to marginalize Baloch in their homeland would be inevitable.

Hyrbyair Marri a leading figure of Baloch liberation movement in a recent statement warned the world about adverse consequences of the agreement between China and Pakistan on Baloch port of Gwadar. This plan is not just against Baloch people but against all democratic and free world. It will bring more instability, misery, fundamentalism and violence in the region.

Hyrbyair Marri termed Pakistan and Chinese nexus on Gwadar as drowning of Baloch nation in Baloch Ocean (Behr e Baloch). Because China and Pakistan wants to turn Baloch into minority on Baloch land and settle millions of people from China and Punjab in Balochistan through these mega plans which are being initiated in Balochistan under the supervision of Pakistani army.



If Baloch as a nation failed to unite and liberate Baloch nation from Pakistani and Iranian occupation then it may be too late the time when we recognise the full consequences of the decisions made on our behalf by the colonial states of Pakistan and Iran. This is high time for Baloch forces to get united to regain our freedom before we are totally side-lined. Baloch have to gain control of their resources. Above all, they have to recognise their identity as a nation that lived on the same land for many hundred years.

The world must realise that Baloch are for economic development and progress but these decisions should be made in free and democratic Balochistan between true representatives of Baloch people with other nations that are mutually beneficial to the counter-parties. Baloch are against exploitation of their people and resources by the occupying states and they understand that only in a free and democratic Balochistan Baloch people will be able to express their full potential and live a life with dignity and pride. Such life is simply impossible under Punjabi and Persian theocratic colonial rules. Without smashing these cages and breaking free Baloch cannot live a life of a whole person in a free and secure environment.

http://balochwarna.com/2015/05/17/gwadar-port-a-mega-plan-to-eliminate-baloch/
 

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Balochwarna.com?
Another foreign funded site...says enough.
 

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Yes it does say enough about the Pakistan scheme of things in Balochistan

So is dawn.com and Tribune.pk etc which you post everywhere.....

enough said!
 

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Pak Army is ILLEGALLY OCCUPYING Balochistan since 1947.

Pak Army is killing lakhs of innocent Baloch Freedom Fighters.

Pak Army is doing genocide of Baloch the same way it did to Bangladeshis.

Baloch has right for self determination and a FREE country like Bangladesh.

Balochistan is burning.

Pak Army is a Un-Islamic Mercenary killing millions of Muslims in South Asia.









 

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Balochis have issues with the central govt and it's not a secret that persons are missing...just like in IoK.
It doesn't make them sepertists, usually women and children suffer from the mistakes of their men. These are often misled.

Baloch Human Right Organisation is indeed foreign funded. If they have issues, they can address them with Amnesty International which is present throughout Pakistan.
 

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Balochis have issues with the central govt and it's not a secret that persons are missing...just like in IoK.
It doesn't make them sepertists, usually women and children suffer from the mistakes of their men. These are often misled.

Baloch Human Right Organisation is indeed foreign funded. If they have issues, they can address them with Amnesty International which is present throughout Pakistan.

Yes, You are correct. Balochistan deserves the same kind of attention that India's Kashmir is getting. I hope one day Afghanistan and Pakistan will be able to solve it bilaterally by conducting a plebiscite.
 

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Balochistan is not a disputed territory and well recongnised by UN as integral part of Pakistan.
 

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Balochistan is not a disputed territory and well recongnised by UN as integral part of Pakistan.
But the local people of Baluchistan say they want to separate from Pakistan ... it was an independent country before creation of Pakistan ... If Baluchistan does not want to stay with you why do you want to force them ?
 

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But the local people of Baluchistan say they want to separate from Pakistan ... it was an independent country before creation of Pakistan ... If Baluchistan does not want to stay with you why do you want to force them ?
Bhugtis are small community and do not represent all of Balochistan. Balochis are quite loyal to central government and they are patriotic people. Seperating Balochistan is a wet dream that will never come true.

Khan of Qilat signed the treaty, he acceeded his territory to the Union of Pakistan.
 

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Bhugtis are small community and do not represent all of Balochistan. Balochis are quite loyal to central government and they are patriotic people. Seperating Balochistan is a wet dream that will never come true.

Khan of Qilat signed the treaty, he acceeded his territory to the Union of Pakistan.

yes thats y they are staying in London in exile. bhugti, mari and may more are livivng in exile, u cant fool the world

 

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Bhugtis are small community and do not represent all of Balochistan. Balochis are quite loyal to central government and they are patriotic people. Seperating Balochistan is a wet dream that will never come true.

Khan of Qilat signed the treaty, he acceeded his territory to the Union of Pakistan.
My question is IF NOW the people of Baluchistan wants freedom from Pakistan ... will you hold them back ??
 

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My question is IF NOW the people of Baluchistan wants freedom from Pakistan ... will you hold them back ??
Who are these people? Who wants seperation, which tribes?
Please come with credible and neutral links.
 

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Who are these people? Who wants seperation, which tribes?
Please come with credible and neutral links.
Creditable and Neutral are over loaded words ... It means different to different people ... It is to be seen at which side you are ... what is true to me is false to you...

Do you consider Tarek Fateh as neutral ?? What he says about Baluchistan ?

What is surprising to see that ARABS are also making noises on Baluchistan... I read somewhere comments from some UAE minister on the state of affairs there...
 
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Creditable and Neutral are over loaded words ... It means different to different people ... It is to be seen at which side you are ... what is true to me is false to you...

Do you consider Tarek Fateh as neutral ?? What he says about Baluchistan ?

What is surprising to see that ARABS are also making noises on Baluchistan... I read somewhere comments from some UAE minister on the state of affairs there...
Arabs? It's just the Emaratis who're opposed to the development of Gwadar. Other direct neighbor would be Oman and they are Pak friendly. Oman has even granted $20 million for the development of Gwadar International Airport.
 

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