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Indeed the situation is becoming real complicated and unpredictable.
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British intelligence is allegedly providing covert support to Balochistan separatists (which from the outset have been repressed by Pakistans military). In June 2006, Pakistans Senate Committee on Defence accused British intelligence of abetting the insurgency in the province bordering Iran [Balochistan]..(Press Trust of India, 9 August 2006). Ten British MPs were involved in a closed door session of the Senate Committee on Defence regarding the alleged support of Britains Secret Service to Balcoh separatists (Ibid). Also of relevance are reports of CIA and Mossad support to Baloch rebels in Iran and Southern Afghanistan.
It would appear that Britain and the US are supporting both sides. The US is providing American F-16 jets to the Pakistani military, which are being used to bomb Baloch villages in Balochistan. Meanwhile, British alleged covert support to the separatist movement (according to the Pakistani Senate Committee) contributes to weakening the central government.
The stated purpose of US counter-terrorism is to provide covert support as well as as training to Liberation Armies ultimately with a view to destabilizing sovereign governments. In Kosovo, the training of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in the 1990s had been entrusted to a private mercenary company, Military Professional Resources Inc (MPRI), on contract to the Pentagon.
The BLA bears a canny resemblance to Kosovos KLA, which was financed by the drug trade and supported by the CIA and Germanys Bundes Nachrichten Dienst (BND).
The BLA emerged shortly after the 1999 military coup. It has no tangible links to the Baloch resistance movement, which developed since the late 1940s. An aura of mystery surrounds the leadership of the BLA.
Washington favors the creation of a Greater Balochistan which would integrate the Baloch areas of Pakistan with those of Iran and possibly the Southern tip of Afghanistan (See Map above), thereby leading to a process of political fracturing in both Iran and Pakistan.
^ I don't really buy that the ordinary Baloch wants autonomy. The sardars who make money out of the gas do want autonomy. The ordinary people of Balochistan generally would not want this. PPP may want to try and win the BLA seats, but how well do they tell us what the people of Balochistan want? They shouldn't be given any autonomy until a referendum is carried out. I don't think the PPP care much what the ordinary Baloch think, they just want to get a couple more seats from the BLA is all.