BLA-
BLA Profile- START DHS/Univ. of Maryland
This is a DHS website that will clarify our current views. It will also indicate those of Great Britain, Australia, Canada, the EU and Russia WRT the BLA. I'm not sure our views are that out of line with those of others.
The only thing your views illustrate is the duplicity of the West.
Two Punjabis shot dead in Quetta
Staff Report
QUETTA: Two men of Punjabi origin were shot dead in a targeted killing on Sariab Road in Quetta on Saturday afternoon, police said.
The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the killings.
Police said masked motorcyclists opened fire on the two Punjabi-speaking citizens at around 1pm. The two men, who had stopped at a petrol station to refuel their vehicle, were killed on the spot. They were identified as Muhammad Farooq and Shahzad Ahmed, both residents of Rahim Yar Khan district of Punjab. BLA spokesman Bibarg Baloch told Daily Times that the men were killed in reaction to the “ongoing genocide of the Baloch people by the Pakistan Army”.
He said the BLA had formally asked all ‘Punjabi citizens’ to leave Balochistan or face the consequences.
“Those who followed our warnings have already left, but those who refuse to quit Balochistan will be targeted in the future,” he warned. The police said both men, aged between 35 to 40 years, were visiting Balochistan from Punjab and were killed when they were on their way back home.
However, the BLA spokesman claimed the two men were intelligence agents.
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
Incidents like these are rampant, yet they are excused as 'an organization struggling for Baloch rights'. "struggling for Kashmir rights' hasn't stopped the US or West from designating Kashmiri groups 'terrorist organizations'. The reason here is simple, you have left yourself plausible deniability in turning a blind eye to Indian support for terrorism, since the organizations being supported are not officially designated 'terrorist'. Its a sham and you know it.
I think Bearden's comments here are general in nature but illustrate that ANY Indian activity in Afghanistan would be unacceptable given an "anxious" Pakistani climate. I found, therefore, Halaku Khan's response very appropriate-
Bearden's comments, along with those of people like Rubin/Rashid and Reidel, fall into the category of muted criticism in line with official US policy. All of the above have argued for more transparency in Indian operations in Afghanistan, were Indian efforts so 'altruistic' transparency woudl not be necessary.
There words take on a different implication than the one you outlined when seen in the light of US intel. officials also pointing out Indian support for terrorism in Pakistan through Afghanistan.
Seems that portion is how the game should be played, wouldn't you agree?
Nothing wrong with that portion of the game - there is something wrong with support for terrorism in both the North West and Baluchistan as is now abundantly clear.
India chose to support the NA warlords against Pakistan, she waged a proxy war in East Pakistan and she assisted Kabul in its Pashtunistan adventures, so clearly 'Indian altruism' does no preclude a cold blooded pursuit of weakening Pakistan through proxy and terrorism, as she has done through history and is doing now.
US duplicity is where it has chosen to highlight the 'altruism' alone, while ignoring the support fro terrorism.
Pakistan could do with a more visible presence in Afghanistan as well. My understanding is that your President and Karzai get along quite well as compared to, say, Musharraf. It needs exploitation.
Pakistan has a presence proportional to the resources it can afford to put there.
There's a lot of back n' forth here but nothing's changed my essential views that Pakistan now suffers from a long and continuing history embracing proxy warfare.
This thread isn't about 'Pakistan's long and continuing history', it as about, now clearly evident, India's support for terrorism in Pakistan, in the North West and Baluchistan.
And since you get selective amnesia when it comes to India's own 'long and continuing history of embracing proxy warfare' - The Baluch militant movements, the East Pakistan proxies, the support for the Northern Alliance warlords, and now proxies in North West Pakistan as well, are all part of 'India's long and continuing history of embracing proxy warfare'. You cannot be credible if you continue to resort to one sided diatribes pointing out Pakistan's flaws alone.
The article I posted summed it up well through that statement attributed to a PA officer in conference with US mil. Officials,
“not to distinguish between a terrorist for the United States and Afghanistan and a terrorist for Pakistan”.
Your failure to do so mirrors the failure at the State level by the US as well, and it has contributed significantly to the trust deficit and Pakistan being forced to keep options open vis vis Indian intentions in Pakistan.
You may have a problem between Mehsud and the Afghan Nat'l Directorate of Intelligence. I don't know but wouldn't be the least surprised. So too with India- but not from Afghanistan. Too difficult and too many prying eyes when it's otherwise too easy to move money and expertise by other means and through other routes.
You don't have eyes everywhere, and least of all control, if you did you wouldn't still be struggling with an insurgency. The Indians are assisted in their support for terrorism in that your resources are just not out looking for them, and the fact that they are not utilizing large scale infrastructure on the ground.
Whatever their transit country, their support for terrorism in Pakistan has to be routed through Afghanistan to be significant - no other avenue is feasible.
