“The US is well aware of the connivance and dirty games that Pakistan’s agencies and its military play in Balochistan”.
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Bugti yesterday clarified that he has not made a formal request to India for asylum, but added that if does get the opportunity in the future, he would certainly consider it.
“We will request the US Govt to rethink their policy regarding Pakistan and take a step in the same direction as India and Afghanistan have taken”, the Baloch leader said. Officials said Bugti’s formal application for citizenship will be submitted by September 19 after his meeting with his party officials. “We will be closer to our people and our people can easily seek asylum there, and it is easier for them to reach there with their families”.
The channel even said that Bugti had started negotiations about his citizenship with Indian officials earlier this year, even before Narendra Modi raised the Baloch issue and Pakistan’s human right violations in his speech on this year’s Independence Day at Red Fort in Delhi.
Earlier this month he had also urged India to open its door to people of Balochistan. When Narendra Modi sahib talked about it, neighbouring countries like Afghanistan and Bangladesh supported his statement.
On at least one front, Pakistan’s diplomatic ties with an important global ally are beginning to improve. “They have intensified military operations in many Baloch areas in recent weeks”, Marri said.
Brahamdagh’s only sister is married to prominent Baloch leader Mehran Baloch, who is a British national but lives mostly in Dubai and represents Balochistan at the United Nations Human Rights Council. And now they are abducting children and women especially in Dera Bugti and Turbat.
India and Pakistan exchanged diplomatic barbs over Kashmir at the 33rd Session of the UN Human Rights Council.While, Islamabad raised the issue of “unceasing oppression”, Under the Right to Reply, India countered Pakistan for raising the issue of alleged human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir, terming its “unsolicited and unwarranted comments” as “factually incorrect and bear no relationship to reality”, an worldwide news agency reported.
He said that still more than 24,000 people are missing in the region, adding they fear that they would also be killed.
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The sharp exchanges come as Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met leaders of the Hurriyat in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir, with the aim of raising the issue of alleged human rights violations in Kashmir at the UNGA.
