Balochistan Cheers Up!

[Areesh]

Karachi features in the largest cities of the world. Quetta is, thanks to the government, highly neglected with a low population. That's why there was a low turnout since Quetta is small

Karachi population 20 million
Quetta population 1 million. Enough said.

 

[lem34]

Balochistan Cheers Up Mash' Allah, Hopefully a heartbrurn for Indians. May Allah Almighty save Pakistan from all Evils. Great Job Mr. Khan.

Imran Khan Speech at Quetta Jalsa - 20th April 2012 - YouTube!

This is the kind of news we want to hear

 

[alibaz]

Well I live in Karachi and I know most participants of the jalsa were people who lived in Karachi. In mathematical terms at least 85%-90% people were residents of Karachi. And even in Karachi people from other provinces participated. You might have heard about people from Punjab participating in Karachi jalsa.

When this much number of people move from other parts of country to Quetta whole world would have known it. Quetta is not a place like Lahore where people from Multan and Islamabad can come attend jalsa and return back without staying in hotels etc. Quetta has very few inlets via air, train and road therefore no movement can be so non detectable. If this would have been Geo and few other channels would have taken sky onto their heads. To me the quoted statement is not correct. Irrespective of somebody supports IK or not, political activity at Quetta must be appreciated and I hope other parties will also come to Quetta and show their strength.

 

[Sugarcane]

1. Change the Title - We need to do reconciliation in Pakistan to keep Pakistan prosper and intact you can rant India anytime once we achieved this.

2. When IK is going to interior parts of provinces where most neglected people lives?

 

[SamranAli]

people of Baluchistan are not fool> they know too what game is being played with them by enemy.

 

[Kambojaric]

The Balochistan crises is like the Maoist crises in India. Essentially driven by unequal distribution of wealth. Kashmir is like Chechnya, Kosovo etc. A desire to be free from foreign rule due to ethno-religious reasons. Yes economy also plays its part in the J&K crises but at the end of the day the root of the problem lies much deeper. It lies in the perception the people of J&K have that Indians are foreigners subjugating us to their rule. As long as India can not change this perception no matter how many hundreds of thousands of soldiers India sends to control them, their will will not be broken.

 

[Rafi]

The Balochistan crises is like the Maoist crises in India. Essentially driven by unequal distribution of wealth. Kashmir is like Chechnya, Kosovo etc. A desire to be free from foreign rule due to ethno-religious reasons. Yes economy also plays its part in the J&K crises but at the end of the day the root of the problem lies much deeper. It lies in the perception the people of J&K have that Indians are foreigners subjugating us to their rule. As long as India can not change this perception no matter how many hundreds of thousands of soldiers India sends to control them, their will will not be broken.

The majority of our Baloch brothers and sisters are true patriots, and I am proud to call them fellow Pakistanis.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Title changed. Stick to the topic please

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

well apparently in karachi 7 lahore people walked from their villages to attend! in quetta mostly people from other provinces and pashtun's attended the jalsa not any baloch!

alarm bells should be rining!!

the march was done to gain constituents in Balochistan Province....Balochistan Province is not homogeneous, it has many ethnicities. It wasn't targeted to a specific ethnicity, it was addressed simply to those residents of Balochistan.


I do see Hazaras in the crowd and this is promising, since they have been under a lot more siege lately than Baloch ever have.They have been much more disenfranchised and screwed over, as of late. It's important to keep them politically involved.

The Balochistan crises is like the Maoist crises in India. Essentially driven by unequal distribution of wealth. Kashmir is like Chechnya, Kosovo etc. A desire to be free from foreign rule due to ethno-religious reasons. Yes economy also plays its part in the J&K crises but at the end of the day the root of the problem lies much deeper. It lies in the perception the people of J&K have that Indians are foreigners subjugating us to their rule. As long as India can not change this perception no matter how many hundreds of thousands of soldiers India sends to control them, their will will not be broken.

well Occupied J&K is ample proof that doling out handouts can not win people over. They will continue their struggle through all means possible - regardless of what we do.

Balochistan crisis is more like the Khalistani militancy hindustan once saw. It's complicated more by the fact that the region is gas-rich, mineral rich, vested external powers hoping to keep it destabilized in order to stifle investment and in order to maintain their anti-Iran proxies (which i suspect are existing). It's further complicated by the fact that tribalism and feudalism mentality still exists. However, as rightly pointed out earlier, only a small handful of Baloch tribes are actually involved in some level of anti-state resistance. Their numbers are so small and in fact when compared to 1970s/80s, the insurgency has largely died down. A few desperate and cowardly hit & run attacks won't change much realities on the ground.

What Pakistan and all Pakistani nationalists need to be aware of is the information war - the war on the internet. Misinformation and propaganda spreads like wild fire. We need to create the means - a bulwark of sorts - to deal with this issue. Furthermore, the government needs to get its bloody act together and seriously go after those elements that are disturbing the law & order of an otherwise rich province that has so much potential to grow and shine the entire region.

there's no political will, because the leaders have tiny ball sack

 

[darkinsky]

yes, why balochis didnt participate, is beyond my understanding, it shows that balochs dont support PTI, but one thing is clear, pashtuns are very much routing for imran

 

[alibaz]

Title changed. Stick to the topic please

Great job sir. Pond is clean with a sane title.

 

[alibaz]

yes, why balochis didnt participate, is beyond my understanding, it shows that balochs dont support PTI, but one thing is clear, pashtuns are very much routing for imran

When we talk about Balochistan then we should be clear that we are talking about geography or ethnicity. What I understand from statement is ethnicity. Quetta is historically Pushtoon dominated city and Hazara is second major ethenic composition. Naturally the gathering has to be Pushtoon and Hazara dominated. If I remember correctly Mujahid Bralvi was covering the gathering for CNBC channel and while moving towards stadium, he kept asking people about places they came from. Many people were from Quetta itself , pishin, chaman, Zhob, sibi etc. There were People from Baloch tribes too.
Considering your statement if Baloch tribes had less or no representation then any ther party which can gather them, may it be PPP, PML (N), JUI, MQM or any one else must come forward and do that, am sure that party or leader will be equally appreciated as PTI is being appreciated.

 

[darkinsky]

When we talk about Balochistan then we should be clear that we are talking about geography or ethnicity. What I understand from statement is ethnicity. Quetta is historically Pushtoon dominated city and Hazara is second major ethenic composition. Naturally the gathering has to be Pushtoon and Hazara dominated. If I remember correctly Mujahid Bralvi was covering the gathering for CNBC channel and while moving towards stadium, he kept asking people about places they came from. Many people were from Quetta itself , pishin, chaman, Zhob, sibi etc. There were People from Baloch tribes too.
Considering your statement if Baloch tribes had less or no representation then any ther party which can gather them, may it be PPP, PML (N), JUI, MQM or any one else must come forward and do that, am sure that party or leader will be equally appreciated as PTI is being appreciated.

pashtun from any where, from quetta etc, i didnt say that pashtuns werent from quetta but i said, in balochistan baloch should have come, but there was little baloch.., as i said, pashtuns whether from balochistan or KP, all pashtuns are very much routing for imran, but balochis are very much upset from all pakistan, thats why they are not even routing for imran

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Khan has met with Baloch leaders and elders and this is public information....in fact as far as i know, there's a PTI wing for Baloch women as well and they are joining in numbers.

 

[Donatello]

Wrong map.

Both areas belong to Pakistan.