Balochistan ferment

PM Yousaf Raza Gilani showed photos of Brahamdagh Bugti meeting Indian officials in Afghanistan and the RAW officials meeting anti-Pakistan elements to Indian PM Manmohan Singh at Sharm-al Sheikh. Mr. Singh was provided with clinching evidence of Indian involvement in terrorist attacks on Sri Lankan cricket team on March 3 and on Manawan Police Academy on March 30. Recently, Richard Holbrooke and General Stanley McCrystal were also apprised of Indian activities. Pakistan should now do away with its policy of appeasement and press India, Afghanistan and USA to hand over Brahamdagh, wind up his clandestine HQ in Kandahar, close Pakistan-specific Indian consulates and camps that train terrorists in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, socio-politico-economic steps should be undertaken in real earnest to remove the genuine grievances of people of Balochistan. Media should play its role to wash away effects of the negative propaganda that is poisoning the minds of Balochi youth and inculcating in them the spirit of separatism. A fervent celebration of the Independence Day on August 14 in Quetta was a healthy activity that put to shame the anti-state elements aspiring to declare independence of Balochistan on this day. -IMRAN JAMALI, Dera Rojhan Jamali, via e-mail, August 18.

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