In the meantime, the representatives of the Free Balochistan Movement (FBM) based in Delhi and London stated that India should now lead others in recognizing Balochistan as a historic nation under the illegal occupation of Pakistan. In the end, all this anger is merely posturing and can not resolve Kashmir or any other issues between Pakistan and India. On Monday after the PM’s speech, Congress leader Salman Khurshid criticised the reference and said that it could weaken India’s position with regards to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched his “Brahmastra” against Pakistan by uttering the B-word in his 90-minute long speech on 15 August.
India’s Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday told a rally that “going to Pakistan is the same as going to hell”.
Responding to his remarks, Pakistan said his references to Balochistan and PoK were an attempt to divert world attention from the “grim tragedy” that has been unfolding in Jammu and Kashmir. “Now, he has made a decision to speak to Pakistan in a more effective way”, said former Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal, who wondered whether the PM will visit Pakistan in November for a SAARC summit.
Bugti has high hopes from India and feels that the nation will do the necessary when Balochistan is in need, said the PTI report.
In a bold rhetorical move on Monday, Modi overtly referred to the region of Balochistan, a resource-rich, insurgency-riven Pakistani province that is home to the strategic deep-water port of Gwadar.
The disputed Himalayan region has been extremely tense since government troops killed a popular rebel leader almost six weeks ago. “There is consistent curfew and a complete media blackout”, said the adviser, shedding light on conditions in India-held Kashmir. With Modi upping the ante on Baluchistan, Pakistan may find itself on the back foot and forced to rethink its strategy.
“More than 70% of the patients come to collect their food baskets each month, according to SHRC”.
For the time being, the worldwide community may see through Pakistan’s designs in instigating trouble in Kashmir – it is true that there is no appetite internationally for the redrawing of borders, especially between two nuclear-armed states – but neither will the global community tolerate for very much longer the continued use of pellets in Kashmir and the gross human rights violations that it has entailed.
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But, party’s chief spokesman Surjiwala said raising issue of Balochistan was a legacy of preveious Congress and UPA government, which has condemned the human rights violations in that region as also in PoK by Pakistani forces and establishment on multiple occasions in the past.
