THE MANIFESTO OF COMMUNIST PARTY (PRÉCIS OF PART 1)

Author: Jamal Nasir Baloch

The Communist Manifesto wrote by Karl Marx and Frederick Engle’s in 1848. In the first part of The Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels highlighted the historical development of the Bourgeois and the ensuing industrialised revolution.

Marx proclaimed that “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle” . In The Communist Manifesto, Marx argued that the growth of the industrialised revolution give rise to ‘two’ competing classes, the Bourgeois (ruling class) and the Proletarians (working class) directly opposing each other.

Marx highlighted that throughout history societies are divided into various orders. The French revolution caused the fall of the feudal system which give rise to the modern Bourgeois. The rise of Bourgeois led to the establishment of two new classes and a new social order in which new forms of oppression and struggle were created.

Marx noted that the discovery of America and free trade between colonies allowed the Bourgeois to become the dominant class with its most important development being the industrialised revolution. The new economic system helped the Bourgeois to take control of politics with the modern states viewed as just committee with which to manage the affairs of a given territory. Marx further tried to explain the effect of new economic system on human morality and the relationship between oppressor and oppressed which “left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous cash payment”. The value of social norms has been replaced by the value of profit in this new class system, the rise of capitalism. The middle class has not escaped the societal changes that the Bourgeois had instrumented, as Marx argues they are but reduced to ‘paid labourers’.
Marx outlined free trade and open markets enabled the Bourgeois  to control the economy of the nation states where the states won’t were no longer be self-sufficient but dependent on the investments of the Bourgeois capital.

Marx argued that the industrialized revolution reduced the Proletarians to an instrument of human labour. Even though the industrialized revolution helped the advancement of the Bourgeois and reduced society to the pursuit of profit, the Proletarians are still essential to the new economic system, however, only as long as they are able to generate capital. Marx stated that the development of the industries increased the number of the wage labours and they represented a large majority of population belong from previous classes under the feudal system. The use of machines vanish the dissimilarities of labourers. The new system that the Bourgeois had instrumented forced every ‘class’ to become ‘paid labourers’, regardless their skills and knowledge.

He further outlined that the Proletarians are further exploited through market fluctuation. Marx highlighted that as the wealth of the Bourgeois increased, hostilities between the two classes are pushed to the surface. The Proletarians will realize their power and start organising them self in the Trade Unions, labour societies and political parties to fight against their oppression by the Bourgeois.

In conclusion, Marx outlined that throughout history, opposition of classes has always ended in a revolutionary change in other words,victory for the Proletarians or in the common destruction of the both classes.

The best system for political stability in a new democracy, Presidential or Parliamentary ?

Author : Jamal Nasir Baloch

Democracy can be most simply understood as a procedure for taking decision in any group, association or society, whereby all members have an equal right to have a say and to make their opinions count (Beetham, 2005). The democracies are not same in the modern world. The natures of the present democracies are deeply affected by their political history and struggle. The basic values or foundations of a modern democracy are rights of the citizen where people have rights of free expression, rights to have property, freedom of religion, freedom of press and media. In democracy people should have the right to elect their representative in a free and fair election. The government should be transparent and accountable to the people for its actions and policies. Democratic government oppose to authoritarian government that limits the direct participation of citizen in making a government via elections. The most popular types of democratic executive (core of government, consisting of political leaders who form the top slice of administration) are presidential system, parliamentary system and semi-presidential system.  According to the Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science, a distinguishing feature of presidential system is the separation of legislature and executive, whereas Parliamentary system there is no separation of executive and legislative powers as there is in presidential systems (Bealey, 1999). However semi-presidential systems are characterized by a dual executive, consisting of an elected president with defined political role and a prime minister and cabinet responsible to the assembly (Haynes, 2005). This easy will compare the presidential and parliamentary system of the government. It is important for a new a democratic state to have a stable government system, which should represent the majority of people. If a new democracy was an authoritarian state and ruled by elite, then it is important to introduce such executive and legislature which represents the nation as a whole. In a presidential system executive and legislature are separate from each other.
Organising a democracy can be varying by institutional differences among them. In the parliamentary and presidential system the separation of powers in the systems, maps the functions of both government procedure .This essay will compare the parliamentary and presidential systems of the different countries.  It will further highlight why parliamentary system is better for a new democracy. It will compare the parliamentary and presidential systems of the different countries in regards to representation, separation of power and economical success of the parliamentary and presidential government.
A new democracy might be an authoritarian state or an occupied nation, the main focus or purpose of the new democratic system should be the stability of government, while it is only possible when the executive represents all states or constituencies of the country. The presidential system can be regarded as the dictatorship of the 51 percent over 49 of the population. Hague and Harrop has put the brief process of making an executive in the presidential system as direct election of the president who steers the government and makes appointments to it (Rod Hugue, 2010). The President has never been seen as part of a team. Nor has he been encompassed by any notion of collective responsibility. When the president has been effectively the head of a governmental majority, there is always the possibility of government business being conducted either directly by the president, or by the president in conjunction with an individual minister (Stevens, 2003) The presidential government represent the majority of the people but the nation as whole, the elected legislature and executive are separate, which lack the influence of minority group or opposition in the government policies. Whereas parliamentary government does not lack the representation of the nation as whole because of executive and legislative system. In parliamentary systems the executive is not directly elected but usually emerges or drawn from the elected legislature (the parliament or assembly) and unlike a directly elected president, is often an integral part of it. In the parliamentary systems the executive is a part of the legislature (Member of Parliaments), the people who chose them (legislatures) can influence the government policies via MPs because in most parliamentary systems the executives  are elected representative ,while in the presidential system the executive is appointed by the president and they are not elected representative of the nation. However it mainly depends on the culture and history of the specific country and how an authoritarian regime or occupier has affected the society. It is impossible in a presidential system to have a head of the government from a minority group, while it is possible in the parliamentary system where an elected religious, ethnic or political minority can be selected as Prime Minister of the country if the majority of assembly ( where elected members meets i.e. parliament or congress  ) agrees. For a new democracy the main inherent risk according to the Bagehot is that only one can win presidency; everyone else loses all or nothing politics can lead to political instability, especially when political trust is still developing (Rod Hague, 2010). Nevertheless the appointment of the cabinet (government ministers) in the presidential system can stabilise the inefficient institutions of a new democratic country by appointing the professionals in specific sectors.
In a newly created democracy it is important that elected legislature have a power to bring the executive branch of the government in accountability. The executive in presidential systems needs legislative majority support only for the president’s legislative proposals; presidents are elected for a fixed term of office, and neither they nor the cabinets they appoint are dependent on the confidence of the legislature for their survival in office (Lijpart, 1999). In the presidential system the elected legislatures can’t remove the president except by impeachment (the trying of a public official for charges of illegal acts committed in the performance of public duty) neither the appointed cabinet. On the other hand the executives in the parliamentary systems are accountable to the legislature. The Prime Minister (head of the government) can be removed by the elected legislature via no confidence vote. Therefore the executive in the parliamentary systems are more accountable to the elected legislatures comparing to presidential system, where the legislature haven’t got constitutional power to remove the head of the government. Separation of powers in presidential systems is usually taken to mean not only the mutual independence of the executive and legislative branches but also the rules that the same non-separation of power in parliamentary systems means not only that the executive is dependent on the legislature’s confidence but also that the same persons can be members of both parliament and the cabinet (Democracy, 1999).

The stability of government system also deeply affects the economy of the country, Figure no.1 showing the world top GDP/capita according to the IMF and World Bank report 2009. United States of America is the only presidential system in the world which is among top 20 countries. On the other hand 18 parliamentary systems are among top 20s in GDP/Capita. The World Bank report also ranked the world 30 economically worse countries in the 2009 report where 22 countries were presidential government. (World Bank, 2009).

In 1960s to 70s most of Latin American countries adopted the constitutional democracy. Currently every Latin American state has an elected government expect Cuba. Dr. David Scott Palmer briefly describe the military intervention in presidential government in Latin America as ‘between 1930 and 1980, the 37 counties that make up Latin America underwent 277 changes of government, 104 of which (or 37,5 percent) took via military coup. From 1980 to 1990, by contrast, only 7 of the 37 changes of the government in the region took place through military interventions, just two of which can be fairly described as clearly anti-democratic in intent. (Valenzuela, 2004). Most of the military coups in Latin America were occurred because there were no constitutional alternative to remove fail presidency from the office. However most of parliamentary government go long but some countries like Italy and Israel have experience difficulties in maintaining stability. The parliamentary systems have multi-parties government (more than one party in the government) and they are forced to rely on coalitions. One of the main deficiencies of the coalition government in the parliamentary system is that extremist parties can threaten of leaving a coalition to further their agendas. Coalition government in the parliamentary systems are viewed as unstable governments by many scholars according to Hague and Harrop such governments are frequently condemned as unstable, not least by English-speaking critics of proportional representation, in a few countries, certainly, government duration has been measured in months for the French Fourth Republic (1945-58) and eight months for Italian governments between 1948 and 1989, in these overcited examples, chronic political instability certainly contributed to poor governance (Harrop, 2012)
According to the 2011 annual report of the Economist Intelligence Unit Norway is the world top democracy in the world which has a parliamentary government, top 10 democracies of the world have a parliamentary system except Switzerland. The reports says that most of the world authoritarian state have presidential system such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Equatorial Guinea and Eritrea (Economist Intelligence Unit, 2011)
A government system for a new democracy can’t be decided with knowing the political history, culture and society of that specific country. The effect of the current executive systems varies from country to country. UK’s Westminster model of parliamentary system have been exported successful in many countries, on the other hand the USA presidential system have been failed to establish political stability and basic democratic value in the new democracies in the Latin America and post-Soviet countries like  Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Both executive systems can lead to unstable government but the presidential system have experience more instability in new democracies because it separated the legislation from executive branch of the government, the conflict between two institution can bring political conflict in the country , no option in the constitution to remove the popular elected President from the office can further increases the political clash between both institution which can’t be replace by any means except military coup. On the other hand the Parliamentary system does not bring such conflicts in the institutions, however the coalition government be an unstable government where as discussed above. A careful comparison of parliamentary with presidentialism as such leads to the conclusion that on balance, the former is more conducive to stable democracy than the latter, this conclusion applies especially to nations with deep political cleavages and numerous political parties; for such countries, parliamentarism  generally offers a better hope of preserving democracy (J.Lizn, 1992).

 

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The Pakistani Colonial State Has Killed 3 Revolutionary Baloch Leaders In Just 5 days

Posted on November 27, 2011

Since the illegal occupation of Independence Baloch state Pakistan has been continuously committing atrocities against the people of occupied Balochistan. After a lull between 1980s and 90s the occupying state once against has intensified its atrocities in Balochistan from 2000 onward.  This is the fifth war of liberation against the colonial occupation of Pakistan. Since the beginning of this war 13000 people including 150 children and 170 women have forcefully kidnapped by the state’s security forces.

The kill and dump policy has been escalated from July 2010 after Pakistani Interior minister visited occupied Balochistan and warned the students and political parties that colonial power will use all oppressive tactics to deter the Baloch revolutionary struggle. Since then more than 325 bullet riddled bodies of missing political activists have been dumped by the occupying army in different places of Balochistan. In the last five days three senior secular and democratic leaders’ bullet riddled bodies have been dumped by Pakistani forces, Jalil Reki Baloch, Younas Baloch and Nako Khair Bux Baloch respectively.

Jalil Reki was the Central Information Secretary of Baloch Republican Party (BRP) he was abducted by security forces on the 13th of February 2009 and dumped his bullet riddled body on 22nd November 2011.

Younas Baloch was the senior member of Baloch National Movement (BNM); he went to Iranian occupied Balochistan to condole one of his relatives and on his way back was arrested by the Iranian forces on the 22nd June 2011. Later Iran extradited him to Pakistan on 18 August 2011. He was killed on 22nd November 2011 and his bullet riddle bodies found along with BRP leader Jalil Reki.

Naku Khair Bux Baloch was the senior BNM leader from Awaran Zone, he was abducted by colonial forces on 27th October 2011 and his bullet bodies dumped on 26th November 2011.

3 revolutionary leaders have been killed by Pakistani Army in the short span of five days. It should be noted that the Pakistani Army is funded by the British and American Imperialists, thus all parties are complicit in these atrocious murders.

Bullet riddled bodies of Baloch comrades are reaffirming the words of Che Guevara “We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”

It is time for the world to stand up against the murderous regime of Pakistan.

Jamal Nasir Baloch

Party Member #3501

Courtesy: http://theactivists.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/the-pakistani-colonial-state-has-killed-3-revolutionary-baloch-leaders-in-just-5-days/

A Short History of Balochistan: Another Example of the Ravages of Imperialism

Posted on November 16, 2011

This world is familiar with Afghanistan, Iraq or Vietnam but whenever I ask my socialist friends about Balochistan, they just reply in one word “where is it?” Balochistan has always been an attraction for the Imperialist and Capitalist powers because of her geo-political importance. Baloch always defeated the outsiders.  On 13 November 1839 the British imperialist forces attacked the palace of Balochistan’s ruler, Mehrab Khan Baloch, the then ruler of the Baloch state and his companions resisted the wanton attack of British forces till the last drop of blood. Mehrab Khan including his several friends embraced martyrdom.

After the British succeeded in eliminating, Mehrab Khan, they divided Balochistan in three parts by drawing two arbitrary lines on Baloch soil.  In 1873 British imperialism signed an agreement, excluding the Baloch, with the Persians and gave the western part of Balochistan to Persia (modern day Iran). Twenty years later in 1893 British drew another artificial line called the “Durand Line” giving a big chunk of Northern Balochistan to Afghanistan, which is the modern political boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

World War II made it difficult for the Britain to stay as colonizer in Asia as they could read their defeat on the wall and decided to leave. Balochistan was given the options to join India, upcoming Pakistan, which was to be severed from united India or remain independent. Balochistan opted for independence and the all the three parties (India, British and upcoming Pakistani administration) agreed to Balochistan’s freedom and signed a tripartite agreement recognizing Balochistan as a sovereign state.

On 11 August 1947 the ruler of Balochistan officially announced Independence – each year Baloch remember 11 August as the day of their independence and renew their resolve to continue the struggle until victory. However after 227 days (in 1948) Pakistan attacked Balochistan; occupied it at gunpoint and coerced the ruler of Balochistan to sign a merger treaty.  The Baloch nation has never accepted the illegal occupation of their country by Pakistan and started resisting against the occupying forces.

The first war of liberation begun only after 49 days of occupation on May 16, 1948 Prince Abdul Karim (the younger brother of the ruler of Balochistan) and his comrades started guerrilla type ambushes against Pakistani forces.  Unfortunately, he was tricked and captured by Pakistan with the collaboration of some Baluch traitors – some of those national criminals were from his own family.

Nawab Nauroz Khan led the second rebellion against occupying forces. Like Prince Abdul Karim he too was deceived in the name of Holy Quran and arrested. Pakistan again used some greedy Baluch notables (informants of the state) to trick Nauroz Khan. The Nawab’s sons and companions were condemned to death by hanging whereas the Babo Nauroz himself was spared due to his old age. He was given life imprisonment and later died in a Pakistan prison.

The liberation struggle did not end with the death of Agha Abdul Karim and Nauroz Khan but their followers and ideological comrades are still fighting against occupiers and pursuing their mission of a free and united Balochistan. Pakistan tried its best to completely crush the Baloch liberation struggle; in 70s it even sought the help of Iran to help her finish off the Baloch freedom movement but with no success. The Baloch peoples’ struggle for liberation is still continuing with full determination and more vigorously. This time the struggle has engulfed entire Balochistan – people from all spheres of life (men, women, youth and elderly) are participating in the liberation struggle according to their capability.

“The Pakistani security services are brazenly kidnapping, torturing and often killing people because of suspected ties to Baloch nationalist movement” HRW(Human Rights Watch) clearly explained the current Pakistani state’s oppression on Baloch nation. HRCP (Human rights commission of Pakistan), AHRC (Asian Human rights Commission), Amnesty International and HRW in their detailed and extensive reports have revealed that Pakistani intelligence agencies and Para Military forces i.e. Frontier Corps are involved in the kill and dump policy of Baloch political activists.

The F-16, Cobra-Helicopter and other US military equipment have been used by the Pakistani state against the democratic movement of the Baloch nation. After the killing of Osama Bin Laden on May 2nd, 2011 tensions accelerated between Pakistan and the US. Pakistan deported some British trainers on 26th June 2011 which was revealed by some newspapers as “Military advisers – all experienced officers or senior NCOs, had been stationed at a new British-built base for Pakistan’s Frontier Corps near Quetta, Balochistan”.

The same news report further read that “The UK has been asked to withdraw some of its training support teams on a temporary basis by the Pakistan Government in response to security concerns.”

The British Government on one hand make big claims of liberalism and democratic intents, on the other hand they are involved in the training of those Pakistani forces that are directly engaging in the genocide of Baloch Nation.

The Pakistani ruling elites have always had the implicit backing of the British and American elites. However, one things is clear Pakistan and the imperialists have a symbiotic relationship. They are both dependent on each other to maintain oppressive regimes. Balochistan was a victim of British Imperialism from 1839 till 1947 but now she is the victim of the imperial desires of the United States and Britain, regimes which support and finance the bloodthirsty rulers of Pakistan.

 

Jamal Nasir Baloch

Party Member #3501 

Courtesy: http://theactivists.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/a-short-history-of-balochistan-another-example-of-the-ravages-of-imperialism/

 

 

Witness to the Revolution

Author : JN Baloch

It  saw  tears of the  sky and  land,some tears of happiness , this was a strange day for me, I went outside to see the Kalmatis of Gwadar but there was no Kalmatis ,I went to Mannd for the Rinds but there was no Rind any more ,I went to Hub and I was failed to find any Jam there. My mind was stuck or might be I was in the process of distraction. I went to every village of Balochistan ,to find ,Marris ,Bugtis ,Jamalis , Lasharis ,Qambarani , Mengals , Rakshani , Hoth, Mazaris, Magsi and all of the tribesmen but I was failed to find any of these in Balochistan. There was neither tribe nor tribal chief anymore .However I saw some bony men, under the trees and in the shadow of Mountains, These skinny men were asking question to fat mans (as the judge ask question to criminals), and I saw stronger men were crying for mercy. I was still unknown about the situation, I suddenly saw an old and I asked him

National Traitors

O peer mard he che bigha een, doraa heen ,mardum kojanth ,na takk asth ….nhe khe Sardar …………o he lagireen mard kayaan khe cho mazari bimm dayaaan . O old man whats happening here ,where are the peoples ,I can’t see any tribe nor any Chief and who these men are ? the men who are thin and skinny but  look like Lion/ brave heart.

The Old man replied: Mani warna tao zana sahi nahee Balochistan azaad inth , na sardar asth nhe khe qabila ,agha cinzhe asth …faqath Baloch o Balochiat ,o e lagareen mard Sarmachar anth ….o marochi cha gaddaraan Hisaab e roch inth! My youth, don’t you know Balochistan is liberated? Chiefs and tribe do not exist anymore, if there is anything than that is Baloch and Balochiat (Balochiat is the base of Baloch culture and traditions)..and these thin men are freedom fighters ,this is the day of judgment for the national traitors

I had read revolution only in the books but now I was a witness to a revolution.

Note: This is not a formal article/story but  one of the Note which I published in Facebook for some friends . Written on : 26 December 2010

‘Baloch Youth’ are being pushed against the wall and forced to abandon open surface politics

Author: Jamal Nasir Baloch

Balochistan is an occupied country which is widely hidden and unknown to rest of the civilized world. The vast deserted area which is the richest land in the region has been facing barbarism since March 1948 after she was occupied by Pakistani State. The Baloch society and Baloch struggle passed through many processes which developed the struggle politically and strategically, the set up of institute like BSO and semi-centralized armed national defense forces such as BPLF in70s played a great role in liberation movement as well as prepared many national leaders who served national cause till their death. The Baloch national struggle had gone through several filtrations which divided many organizations and made many new institutions which later on proved that they are not individuals but national representative of Baloch Nation. The BSO’s division and disintegration led it into a more structurised and revolutionary institute like BSO Azaad.  The filtration process of Baloch National cause produced many pro-federal organizations but in the last the structuring process ended into a straight forward organization like BNM (Baloch National Movement) which demands for complete national liberation and unconditional withdrawal of Iran and Pakistan from Occupied Balochistan.

Baloch children holding the pictures of national leaders

However from 2004 (which can be recognized as the rising years of pro-liberation political parties) to 2010 Pakistan almost made it impossible for political parties to carry on working to achieve their political goals. Political institutions that believe in Gandhian no-violent and non-cooperative way of politics are also being pushed against the wall.  Since 1948 (after illegal occupation of Balochistan) the government institutions do not have any single Baloch representative but the officials departments are filled with those “Balochistanis” who have been shifted by Pakistani state to change Baloch nation into a minority or those Baloch who are appointed directly by Islamabad to serve Pakistani interest in occupied territory.

The 8000 Baloch missing persons comprise more than 50 % of Political activists, the numbers of political prisoners are not included those are facing barbarism and torture because of their political believes. No political organizations in Balochistan have got a permanent office because the Military of the occupying state doesn’t allow them to do so. Since 2004 the party Regions and Units are based on virtual divisions, the political organizations in Balochistan pays double price for their publications to private press companies for the reason that their political materials are considered as suspicious because of their liberal and democratic views. 70 percent of Political statements are being sent via electronic mail to news agencies because many activists are sure that their colleges have been traced by non-Baloch electronic shop owners while they sent faxes to other Units of their respective parties – their information had been passed to security agencies.

These restriction are unimaginable neither any civilized world can think that what difficulties Baloch are facing in their own homeland, although what is the main concern which almost made peaceful struggle in Balochistan impossible is that there are more than 600 Para-Military check posts in occupied Balochistan and in the Quetta (capital) every single check has CCTV cameras and other modern equipment which monitors  the activities of Baloch political activists, in the last 4 month 90 percent of missing persons have been abducted from these check posts.

On the other hand the dumped decomposed bodies are restricting youth from politics which is leading the philosophy toward defensive guerrilla strategy. Pakistan army abducted BNM Gwadar Zone president from one such check post and after few days his decomposed body was found near Turbat town. Hameed was also a senior member of Gwader Press Club but neither his pen nor his peaceful political belief saved him from the uncivilized security forces of Pakistan. It should be noted that the distance b/w both cities is 188 km where Pakistani army have established more than 50 check posts on Gwadar – Turbat highway. State and its intelligence agencies certainly can be the only power that can pass an abducted person from 50 army check posts, torture them to death and then dump their bodies in the deserted areas with a notes like:  “A gift for Baloch Nation”.  According to a Baloch leader Pakistan is not sending us the bodies of our sons but messages that I can do whatever I want! In other words each and every murder of Baloch nation is carried by State Intelligence agencies with impunity and blessings of the federal government. The statements of top provincial ministers, chief minister, the governor and Pakistani federal minister about initiating a selected target killing in Balochistan, are evident of a green signal or a license to kill the Baloch disappeared political activists.

Decomposed bodies

The target killing of pro-freedom Baloch activists by state sponsored dummy organizations is another tactic which the Pakistani state is implying in Occupied Balochistan. These state sponsored extremist Organisation have targeted several political activists in different area of Balochistan. The former senator Mr. Habib Jalib Baloch, Mir Noorudin Mengal and other BNP members were also targeted because of their political stand against Pakistani atrocities in Occupied Balochistan.  The mind set of Pakistani Army can be gauged by their brutal tactics like “Kill and Dump” policy of Baloch detainees’ under-custody. All most every Baloch regardless their age, sex and political ideology or profession from 14 year old Baloch student, Majeed Zehri, to 70 year old Shadi Khan Marri have not been spared by state agent of the barbarism of Evil state of Pakistan and it intelligence agencies. The youth of occupied Balochistan have come the conclusion that the blood is required to nourish the liberation struggle as well as the blood of enemy is essential to gain complete Independence. Unfortunately, those political workers who believe in peaceful and democratic struggle are now left with no option but search an alternative way which can’t be a non-violence politics but………!

The Dragunov in Baloch's hand

Conclusion: The deliberate silence of the Western world, Human right organizations and the State controlled media is adding to the disappointment and frustration of Baloch political parties and their activists to pick up the satellite phones and Dragunov snipers to defend their Sky, Land and Coast from invaders because open surface politics have been made impossible for them.

Balochistan: The 21st century’s Germany under Nazis rule

Author: Jamal Nasir Baloch

Faiz Mohammad Marri abducted by Pakistani Forces

Once Goering second in Command of Hitler imperialist government asked one of his advisor “What is the solution of Jewish National Question” The Advisor replied “No Jews no National Question”. Many years ago a British Military commander has been quoted as saying “more Marri more problem, less Marri less problem and no Marri no problem” After almost sixty years the history is repeating itself. Today, however, it is not the Jews but it is the Baloch National Question! The slogan or policies of the occupying states seem to be “No Baloch No problem”. The USSR and British Alliance succeeded in finishing the Hitler’s imperialism but these hypocrite capitalists established an artificial state to serve their purpose, Pakistan, soon after WW2. Pakistan was made by the British after they had realized that Indian State will never accept the dictation of foreign forces against their National Interest (Indian interest).  The British, however, found another Nation that could play the role of a perfect watch dog against the USSR and incoming communism threats from East, that Nation was the Punjabi nation which is the dominant people in Pakistan.

Black Eid

The Punjabi Empire (Pakistan) is backed by its masters so called “Civilized Countries” United Kingdom and United States of America. The atrocities of Pakistan are exceeding all the limits of Past, in WW2 world saw the brutality of Nazis who claimed to be a purer nation. On the other hand in 21^st century Baloch are facing a fundamentalist nation and state who claim to be the holiest Nation sent by God to protect Islam. They regard Pakistan (The land of Pure) as the forte of Islam and their army as the vanguards of Muslims world. They are of the view that rebelling against Pakistan is tantamount to rebelling against God.

Baluchistan mean “The Land of the Baloch” but now the Islamic states of Iran and Pakistan are turning Balochistan into military garrison and trying to encircle Baloch Nation in their military concentration camps.  One of the most heinous crimes of these two rouge states is the enforced disappearances of around 8000 Baloch persons by Pakistan and thousands by Iranian Shia’t fundamentalist regime. Pakistan from past four months has being committing the “Kill and dump” tactic. Its security forces have murdered around forty-eight Baloch political and student activists in cold-blood. According to doctors and the families of the victims most of the deaths happened due to brutal torture and most of the victims had been shot in the head presumably after they had already died of torture.

The International Community and International Human Rights Organizations so far not only ignored the occupying states’ atrocities against Baloch people but they have been criminally silent spectators of Baloch genocide.  It is said that when you see someone committing a crime and remain silent that makes you a collaborator of the criminal. Hence, the Baloch are right to believe that the International community by remaining silent about Pakistan and Iran’s atrocities in Balochistan are actually encouraging these states to commit more crimes and with immunity.

IBVMP Conference on Baloch Missing Person

The Amnesty International might think that they have fulfilled their duty by publishing a 2 pages report on Baluchistan after so many years. The ICRC stated clearly to Baloch leaders “Sorry we can’t do anything for Baloch because of Pakistani pressure”.  When International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons held a conference in Geneva on enforced disappearances  the ICRC refused to take part in the Conference saying that “It is a political meeting not Human rights”. It should be noted that the crisis of 8000 missing persons is not the only urgent issue that need an urgent solution.  The issue of IDPs, Baloch refugees in Afghanistan and different cities of Pakistan also need attention of International community and humanitarian Organisations.

Decomposed body of Baloch Missing person

Today as I write this article on EID day, one of the holy days for Muslims around the world,  Baloch Nation have received more decomposed bodies of the beloved sons of soil, according reports six bodies of Baloch missing persons had been found 3 from Quetta, 2 Mastung and 1 from Nasirabad , Turbat. (More info on missing persons). I want to remind the Pakistan Islamic military of a verse from the Holy Quran “whoever kills a human being… then it is as though he has killed all mankind; and whoever saves a human life, it is as though he had saved all mankind.’ (Quran, Surah al-Maidah (5), verse 32)”

The killed and dump tactics of Pakistani forces started when Intelligences agencies abducted Three Baloch leaders from Turbat on 3^rd April 2009 and then their decomposed bodies were found on 9^th April (detailed fact finding report by HRCP). Since then dozens of mutilated bodies had been discovered by local peoples who include lawyers, students, Baloch government employees, and political activists and high profile Baloch leaders.

The story does not finish here, the second tactic which Pakistan is conducting are the target killings of Baloch student and political leaders, most recent examples are the killing of Habib Jalib Baloch, a Baloch political leader and assassination attempt on Jan Mohammad Dasthi who is the owner of now banned daily asaap and a Baloch writer.  Also several members of Baloch Student Organisation Azaad have been target killed by Pakistan intelligence’s dummy organization Musallah Difahi Tanzim.

Pakistan had practiced this kind of tactics against the Bengali people when their struggle for liberation was at peak and Bengalis were on the verge of getting their Independence. At that time Pakistan’s dummy organizations such as Al-shams and AL-Badar had killed thousands innocent Bengali intellectuals and students. According to New York Times (3/28/71) 10,000 people were killed by Pakistani Security Forces ; New York Times (3/29/71) 5,000-7,000 people were killed in Dhaka; The Sydney Morning Herald (3/29/71) 10,000 – 100,000 were killed; New York Times (4/1/71) 35,000 were killed in Dhaka during operation searchlight.

The Cultural, Educational and Mass genocide of Baloch Nations also resembles the stories of “Armenian Genocide” where so called last Islamic Khilafat Ottoman Empire Martyred thousands innocent Armenian in the name of the Religion.

Conclusion:  Every imperialist country like Pakistan never ever respected the Human right of oppresses nations because they do not consider them as Humans. The WW2 was started by super power when Hitler marched towards their countries (Moscow and London), they didn’t act on Polish genocide neither on Armenian nor on Kurdish genocide and similarly are turning a blind eye on Baloch genocide.  They always think of their own interest and used their power whenever they felt that Hitler, Ottoman and the Taliban were going to attack their territories, 9/11 is the prime example of the selfishness of the super powers. If it was not for 9/11 the Taliban would still be ruling in Afghanistan. America, its allies and NATO forces would not attack and invade Afghanistan.  Pakistan will continue to kill the Baloch until the super powers get a knock on their door and realise that they are the NEXT target of Pakistani and Saudi Jihadists.  Baloch should not wait for the super powers to come to their aid. They must unite and use their strength to defeat those forces that invaded Balochistan and that are committing genocide of Baloch Nation.

Struggle for Self-determination vs. Struggle for National Liberation

Author: Jamal Nasir Baloch

Meaning of Self-determination: 1. right to decide for self: the ability or right to make your own decisions without interference from others 2. Right to choose own government: the right of a people to determine its own form of government without interference from outside

Meaning of Nation Liberation or Independence: 1. freedom from control: freedom from dependence on or control by another person, organization, or state 2. Beginning of political freedom: the date or point in time when a state achieves its political independence

Reference: English Dictionary

Yet the original proposal was even more radical; it would have demanded a clear commitment from all imperial powers to bring their colonies to independence as quickly as possible. Both Britain and France reacted angrily to this. The France in particular  had long regarded their colonies as  integral parts of the nation for whom the concept of independence  was philosophically meaningless .The big powers therefore agree that the term ‘Independence’ would be replaced by ‘self-government’ in the final Declaration.

Reference: The United Nations, Author: Norrie Macqueen Page number: 120

The History is enough to differentiate between National Liberation and Self-determination which is an upgraded version of word ‘Self-government’. However if we try to ignore the historical anti-national liberation facts and policies of imperialist powers for a while then still in the case of Occupied Baluchistan philosophy of self-determination is unsuitable at all because of some historical events and current political circumstances. Baluchistan which was attacked by Pakistan regular Army and they forced the coward King of Baluchistan to sign the annexation of free Baloch state at gun point. He demolished the constitution of the country as well as ignored the decelerations of Baluchistan’s Parliament (House of Lord) in which the elected representative of Balochistan refused to join the newly created Pakistan on the basis of religion. The speech of Mir Goush Bux Bizenjo is an historical piece of evidence in which he expressed the wish of Baluchistan to be an independent and free nation.

Full Speech (http://www.thebaluch.com/102909_history.php)

The concept of self determination can only be achieved through a democratic process where a nation use the right to decide whether they want to be free or to be a part of a federation but it only applies on those nations which are the natural or legal democratic part of a federation or Union. Since Pakistan is not a democratic state nor is Baluchistan a legal, natural or historical part of this undemocratic artificial state. If Baloch Nation use the slogan or demand so called self-determination it will legitimise the illegitimate occupation of Baloch land by Pakistan. Secondly even if some weak-hearted Baloch consider themselves Pakistanis they cannot achieve self-determination due to the lack of a democratic system in Pakistan.  To make them understand in simple words I put it this way; it is impossible to ask for self-determination in an undemocratic country like Pakistan. Thirdly, Pakistan is rapidly trying to change the demography of Balochistan by settling as many non-Baloch in Baloch areas as possible in case the time come for self-determination or alternatively a referendum is held the non-Baloch settlers will obviously vote against an Independent Balochistan. Hence it will further strengthen and legitimise the illegal occupation of Balochistan. “Self-determination is a deception and a way to legalise an illegal invasion of a free Nation”.

Since 1945 UN and its deceleration didn’t gave freedom to any nation in this world but their national struggle and scarifies for the freedom played the successful role in the national liberation.

Unfortunately the parties which got great intellectuals and decades of experiences in Baloch political are either confused or ignorant on their strategic policies.

Conclusion: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” Abraham Lincoln, (attributed) 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

The Stranger Land “Baluchistan”

Old Map Of Baluchistan,Afghanistan and Iran,which show the boundaries of Independent Baluchistan before British attack

Author:Jamal Nasir Baloch

You might have heard about Durand line, Strait of Hormuz , Marghar Civilization, and you perhaps also heard of the Gedrosia which is an unforgettable name for the Greeks! If you are a British or American then you may not be familiar with this name Gedrosia. However you do know where Helmand is. Yes, Helmand in Afghanistan but you must be wondering that why I am asking about these places. Actually these are some Places of Baluchistan, Yes Baluchistan ,yet another unfamiliar word for this civilized world, a name which is seem like a stranger! Let me try and describe to you this Stranger land in the following few paragraphs.

Baluchistan is divided in three parts all to thanks to British imperialism otherwise we were an independent country. One part of Baluchistan is controlled by Afghanistan which consist area of currently known as Helmand, Frah and Nimruz, the name Helmand is mostly under the spotlights because of the ongoing insurgency and the so called war on terror. The Second part is occupied by Pakistan and a third part has been forcefully annexed by Iran, which now known as Iranian Occupied Baluchistan. However in my write up I would like to mainly highlight Pakistani Occupied which was an Independent State until 27 March 1948. Independence Day of Baluchistan is on 11 August 1947, the Baluch still celebrate this with great zeal and passion each year with the hope that one day they’ll regain their freedom again.  Baluchistan was occupied by Pakistan after 227 days of her independence through a brutal military incursion. Generally Independent Baluchistan was always a headache for the Pakistani Islamic extremist state because of secular views the Baluch gave asylum to many Hindus and Christian families in Baluchistan who had migrated from Pakistan to save their life from Punjabis Islamic extremists during the partition of sub-continent. the secondary intend is the strategic geological location of Baluchistan because it strategically bridges the Middle East and Southwest Asia to Central Asia and South Asia, and forms the closest oceanic frontage for the land-locked countries of Central Asia.

A Baloch Guerilla Fighter in the mountain of Balochistan

Since the occupation Baluch fought many wars to break the chains of Pakistani slavery and to regain their sovereignty. The first war of liberation begun only after 49 days of occupation on May 16, 1948 Agha Abdul Karim and his comrades initiated guerrilla type ambushed on the occupying forces.  Unfortunately, he was captured by Pakistani forces with the collaboration of some Baluch traitors. Second rebellion begun in the 50s led by Nawab Nauroz Khan and other patriot Baluch fighters. Nawab Nauroz Khan was tricked in the name of holy Quran and again with the help of some Baluch notables (informants of the state). Nauroz Khan and his companions including his son were condemned to death. Nawab himself, however, was spared the punishment of by hanging to death due to his age; he later died in a Pakistani prison. The liberation struggle did not end after the death of Agha Abdul Karim and Nauroz Khan but their followers and ideological comrades are still fighting in the mountain of Baluchistan. The Baluch have lost many many people in this brutal war including hundreds of renowned intellectuals and leaders. The recent murder of Baluch Leader Habib Jalib Baluch and the martyrdom of Shaheed Nadil Gickhi by Pakistani forces are part of ongoing genocide of Baluch people at the hand of Pakistan. The state and its intelligence apparatus consider every single Baluch as her enemy regardless of their ideologies or political belief.  On the other hand the thousand of Baluch missing persons, those who have been abducted by Pakistani Intelligence agency of Pakistan because they demanded for freedom and justice in their own home land. The phenomenon of forced-disappearances is one of the worst human right violations in the history of humanity.

Baluchistan Gold

A country (Baluchistan) which has got the richest land of the world, her people are the poorest despite of having rich natural resources. Baluchistan has 1200 km coastline, Word’s 3^rd largest Gold and Copper reserves at Rekodiq, 217 million tonnes of Coal resources, Sui Gas flied, Gwadar Port vital for global strategic interest, ‘the USSR took over Afghanistan but her destination was Gwadar Port which is the located near Strait of Hormuz basically well known as Warm Water’ Kalmat Lagoon (natural sea wildlife) and Bambore Oil reserves of Mulk-e-Marri. Nevertheless Baluch people despite of owing such wealth and natural gifted resources do have access to clean drinking water for their survivals. Because of Pakistani state repression more than a thousand out of 100,000 women die every year due to mortality in Baluchistan. It would be a great injustice with the people of Baluchistan not to mention the heinous crime of Pakistan ‘the atomic blast in Baluch land due to which the people have suffered many critical diseases in Chaghi area’. Nobody can predict for how long the radiation of these blast will continue to kill the people of Baluchistan.

The other human crisis are thousands of Baluch Internally Displaced Person, who are direct  victims of Pakistani Terrorism, the crisis occurred in 2006 and 2007 when Pakistani Air forces and land forces started operation against Baluch fighters in Dera Bugti and Mulk-e-Marri . The operation resulted in the martyrdom of top Baluch leaders Akbar Khan Bugti and Balaach Khan Marri as well into martyrdom of many innocents Baluch women and children (click here for pictures graphic images warning).

Baloch Protest

The ongoing massacre of Baluch nation continues to deteriorate and intensify.  Over Two dozen Baluch activists had been martyred by Pakistani intelligence including several missing persons in last 3 weeks but the International media and the International world has been ignoring the Baluchistan conflict and the to report truth because of their materialist interests with Pakistani State. The Baluchistan’s human right violations are exceeding the previous crime rate of Pakistan which she committed in Bangladesh.

The Baluch opinion for the international community is also changing rapidly because of their ignorance toward Baluch national question and turning a blind eye on the gross human rights violation that Pakistan is committing against the people of Baluchistan. In fact the Baluch National Movement and Baluch Student organization Azaad which are the main political stake holders in Baluch war of liberation warned NATO and International powers that their ignorance toward Baluch problem will force Baluch nation to harm their (International Community’s interests).

This is an undeniable fact that followers of Socialist or Guevarists ideology among Baluch liberation movement consider some Western Capitalist powers as main collaborators in Baluch genocide with Pakistani State. However some Baluch leaders believe that Baluch national question is beyond the problem of the economic system because no ideology or religion allows killing the peoples and occupying their land, but they are unable to defend the western policies against Occupied Baluchistan. It is clear now that a country which was divided by British Imperial after 1839 for its own materialist interests is now going to be the central point of internationally community not because of Baluch genocide but for their own interest. The West seems less bothered about the inhuman acts of Pakistan but as they have their own interest that is why they are  eying Baluchistan. One thing must be crystal clear that only the people of Baluchistan under an agreement (for the Baluch interest) can protect the interests of West. If the Western powers think they will strike some deal with Pakistan and achieve their aims in Baluchistan then they are wasting  their time and resources because until a single Baluch is alive they will not allow foreign invasion of their country. Pakistan cannot protect the interest of Western powers in Baluchistan – only Baluch can.

A Baloch Hero

This ignored land “Baluchistan” got thousands of years History, many folk stories of war and peace, many tombs of martyrs and many grave of traitors, a land which is quoted by Greeks as Desert Of Death. The future of this Land depends on Baluch struggle and on Baluch national unity. At the last I would suggest my elders, my Baluch friends and other Comrades nobody is coming here to save you from Pakistan, if you have expectation from International World than you deserve this barbarism. The Baluch must unite to liberate themselves from the yoke of Pakistan and Iranian slavery. If the Baluch unite with their power of unity they can even convince the Western power that Baluch are a Nation that can sustain peace and stability in the region. I end my piece with the beautiful quote of Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara “I am not a Liberator, Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.”