news details |
|
|
| Pakistan hides its failure by raising fingers on India at UNSC | | | Ankush Verma
Pakistan on Thursday once again has tried to traduce India before UNSC, by targeting India for alleged military sieged in Jammu and Kashmir, according to Pakistan has caused $3.5 billion economic loss to its people. But Pakistan’s concocted statement was apparently an attempt to hide its own inhuman military siege in Baluchistan where it continues its barbarism and violates the socio-economic and political rights of people. Pakistan cannot cover up the economic condition of Balochistan which is suffering from intense multi-dimensional poverty (MPI), and which is near to the collapse of social structure and standards.
Balochistan is well endowed by nature as it has the country’s longest coastline and largest natural gas reserve and is very much rich in natural resources like coal, zinc, lead, Copper, Gold, oil. But unfortunately, the development of Balochistan is least among the four provinces of Pakistan. But it has exploited these resources itself and by handing over the large part of the land and mining contract to china.
Vivek Katju a retired secretary of Ministry of Foreign Affairs Government of India, in a conversation with BBC stated that “if you look at the Socio-Economic indicators, Balochs are backwards, there is widespread illiteracy”. But if you see at the resources in Balochistan, they are in abundance. But the resources are exploited terribly. The Sui Gas can be quoted as a classic illustration of economic exploitation of Blaochistan. If you go to sui gas fields in Dera Bugti, you will see a cantonment protecting personal ensuring that they are supplied gas and electricity all day, every day but if you walk around outside the cantonment you will find Baloch people living without access to gas that’s two in an area that supplies gas to the entire country. Sui Gas was discovered in 1950s and was supplied to all provinces except Balochistan. It means Balochistan who lights up whole Pakistan itself lives in darkness. The gas company that exploits and controls the gas fields is a federal government-controlled company and Balochistan gets minimum share of the revenues generated.
Since 27 March, 1948 when Balochistan was captured by Pakistani security forces, it has faced five waves of insurgency. The phases of insurgency were started in 1948, 1958, 1962, 1973, and 2004 respectively. But the current and the most prolonged phase starting in 2004 thousands and thousands of people were killed and abducted by Pakistani security forces from 1948 to till now. In the wave of insurgency, many people have been killed and abducted by Pakistani security forces. Baloch freedom fighters are completely against the state and its machinery. Pakistan maintains control by disappearing, torturing and murdering the people and their leaders. Sanaullah Baloch a member of the Balochistan Provincial Assembly, and former Senator in The News wrote that after Imran Khan came to power, he is least interested to initiate a dialogue to develop a workable strategy and framework to uplift Balochistan from poverty, frightening unemployment, alarming education crisis, vanishing livestock and a deteriorating agriculture sector and vanishing industrialization.
He stated that in the long run, the present government policies are more harmful for the economic and physical security of Balochistan. Since Balochistan’s overall economy is reliant on government resources, its poverty-stricken population suffered heavily from the total developmental shutdown. In addition, the government didn’t bother to move from the status quo to experiment a pro-growth developmental model which Balochistan needs desperately to stop the overall decline in social indicators. Pakistani government even do not bother to provide the water to the Blochs who are suffering lengthy dry spells and this have led the rural population in these areas to migrate to barrage areas in order to gain employment to provide food and water for their families and livestock.
The inhuman military siege of Balochistan is not unknown to the world. Since 27 March, 1948 when Balochistan was captured by Pakistani security forces, it has faced five waves of insurgency. The phases of insurgency were started in 1948, 1958, 1962, 1973, and 2004 respectively. But the current and the most prolonged phase starting in 2004 thousands and thousands of people were killed and abducted by Pakistani security forces from 1948 to till now. In the wave of insurgency, many people have been killed and abducted by Pakistani security forces. Baloch freedom fighters are completely against the state and its machinery. It is well known to the world that Pakistan maintains control by disappearing, torturing and murdering the people and their leaders by security forces. But the security forces enjoy unconditional impunity. A report by Human Rights Watch documents that the security forces have continued to behave with the same impunity they enjoyed under the military government of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. This impunity seems to penetrate the system at all levels: police who refuse to register and investigate disappearance cases, courts that appear unwilling or unable to fully enforce the law against the security forces, intelligence agencies that continue to blatantly ignore court orders, and high-level government officials who talk of the need for accountability yet are unwilling or unable to rein in the security forces. The reality is that security forces controlled by the military, including intelligence agencies and the Frontier Corps, continue to act outside all formal mechanisms of civilian oversight. The inability of law enforcement agencies and the criminal justice system to tackle the problem of disappearances is exacerbated by the continuing failure of Pakistani authorities at the national and provincial level to exert the political will to address the issue of disappearances in Balochistan. The authorities have failed so far to send a strong message to the security forces and intelligence agencies and to implement a set of concrete measures that would put an end to the practice of enforced disappearances.
Economic report of Balochistan by Asian Development Bank has recorded that this province of Balochistan has Pakistan’s most anaemic growth record, worst infrastructure, worst water crisis, and weakest fiscal base. The poor economic performance leads to poor living standards. Balochistan has the highest poverty-along with NWFP, lowest social indicators, and, in parts of the province, the weakest state institutions. On the top of it, military siege is deepening this crisis to another level. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
STOCK UPDATE |
|
|
 |
| BSE
Sensex |
 |
| NSE
Nifty |
|
|
| |
CRICKET UPDATE |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
