Dude we do respect him for his great work in the field of sports for pakistan but its a serious matter.
He is claiming that armed forces of Pakistan are killing innocent ppl in Balochistan. Facts are different:-
1. It has a vast area being largest province of Pakistan but with a very low population figure.
2. Sardari system has pushed ppl to a very low and deep poverty level coupled with low education standards.
3. It was serving as a safe drug route as it has got a long border with afganistan.
4. foreign powres vested their interests in this region to stop development as it importent for Pakistan to obtain and further benefit itself from the natural resourses of the province.
5. To eliminate tne current sardari system and tribal fights( ref; severe fights between bugti ans marri tribes) militry operation was introduced.
6. All those claiming to be innocent were fighting againt he Armed forces in one way or the other.
Keeping above mentioned facts in view, you can judge yourself that encouraging anyone to pick up arms against the state would further detoriate the situation or will imprave it.
1. Which called for a 'Sardari' system you hate. The government of Pakistan could not provide systems for law and order in that region.
2. Why did the government of Pakistan not intervene and put an education system in place? The district Sui (from which Pakistan gets 45% of its gas supply) does not have access to natural gas from the Sui Gas Field. District Ziarat was provided with natural gas in 2005.
What benefits the exploitation of power resources in Dera Bugti has brought to their lives in the past 50 years? They still burn wood for fuel purpose and live like nomads.
It is clearly not Sardari system that has kept Baluchistan in such poor financial condition.
3. Only 20 per cent of its people have an access to safe drinking water compared to 86 per cent in the rest of Pakistan. Presently, the poor are recovering from the devastating drought that plagued the province for the last five years. Only six per cent of the land is cultivable and productivity is low because of the arid conditions. Its over 50 per cent population subsists below the poverty line.Income-based inequities in human development need to be addressed.
And you still believe that the people could survive there without engaging in some kind of 'illegal' activity?
4. How would the exploitation of mineral riches from Kohlu benefit the local population in the future? Whereas the Sui gas brought an industrial revolution in Pakistan, Balochistan still lacks an industrial base which is the single biggest cause of unemployment in the province.
5. If you want to eliminate Sardari system, you need to do it gradually, putting in place an alternative system. The current system has a long cultural history and you cannot 'eliminate' it through a military operation.
How can you manage villages in Baluchistan which are at times 250Kms away from any other civilization?
6. You trash my village. Abduct hundreds of people. Kill my guardian (sardar) and expect me to remain voiceless? There are thousands of people from Baluchistan still 'missing'. You replace one badmash with a bigger badmash (the army).
There was an interview of a Baluch sardar on Geo a couple of years ago. He claimed that if government says that Baluch Sardars are the reason for no education system in the province, please provide the names of sardars who oppose it. He said that there are 38 Sardars in Baluchistan and claimed that it was only a couple of them who objected to 'co-education' schools in the province in 1980s.
A lot of information in this post is from
Higher poverty in Balochistan -DAWN - Business; February 6, 2006 but I also have first hand experience of poverty in the province. You guys cannot imagine the way people of the province with huge natural resources still live in this day and age.