Friday, February 24, 2012

Interesting development on Freedom for Baluchistan

feb 23rd, 2012 CE

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From: N
Date: Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: Interesting development on Freedom for Baluchistan
To: N


Good point. Intent then must be to pressure Pakistan to permit US Special Forces operations from Baluchistan.

Another brilliant move by the State Dept Einsteins. So the Baluchi Liberation Front will now demand that Interpol be asked to add the murder of Nawab Bugti to the charges against Musharraf, and violence will ramp up in Baluchistan and Sindh. I look forward to hearing of many more oil pipelines and rail tracks being "inflated" there. :)

All in all, win-win.

n

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:56 AM,  wrote:
i think it's the anti-iran lobby (possibly israeli). an independent
baluchistan will be at least as much trouble for iran as it is for
pakistan.

On 2/23/12, N wrote:
> Hadn't heard this one before. Why is the Hon.  Rep. Rohrabacher on this
> wagon, I wonder.
>
> Past wagons, just for perspective:
>
> 1) Space Solar Power
> 2) Taliban-UNOCAL pipeline deal
> 3) Taliban-UNOCAL-Iran pipeline deal
> 4) Opposition to US-India nuclear deal
>
> and a few other not-so-stellar achievements. So my only question is: which
> lobby is paying for this resolution?
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-lashes-us-congressmans-resolution-152222343.html
>
> n
>

5 comments:

Arvind said...

Rohrabacher has been anti-Hindu and anti-India for a long time and was one of the 22 people (their names have not been released but there are ways to arrive at this conclusion) who who lobbied against Modi.

In the recent past, he has become anti-Pakistan. Most likely, they didn't give him a raise or they didn't give his cronies a contract that he wanted. So he has been singing the tune that US must ally itself with India and, hold your breath, Russia!

san said...

Well, Baluchistan takes up about 1/4 of Iran's territory, and 1/2 of Pakistan's. So that's a big chunk for each of them. (Btw, my understanding is that Baluchi nationalists spell it B-a-l-u-c-h-i-s-t-a-n while Pakis and Iranians spell it B-a-l-o-c-h-i-s-t-a-n

So I always use "Baluchistan" out of respect for the nationalist position.

I hope that US and Israel are willing to stay the course on any efforts for Baluchistan. This is something that could earn India's cooperation against Iran, since we'd all stand to benefit.

Unknown said...

It looks like plans are afoot to dismember Pakistan.

It is now obvious to the US, as is to everyone else, that any solution that does not address the elephant in the room, Pak belligerence, is inimical to Western interests in Central Asia.

India, China, Russian, Iran, Pakistan are all waiting twiddling their thumbs waiting for a full US withdrawal.

Of the Army, America and Allah, it seems the Paki goose is cooked between the first two. It's only hope: Allah, the Merciful, who is the root cause of the whole fuss, the first place. After all, it was Jinnah's co-religionists who could not live amongst the idolaters.

Pagan said...

Gedrosia is the name for Greater Baluchistan.

Israelis will be more interested in breaking the Iranian (Western) Baluchistan. I hope that happens -- we can then create a "Kashmir" on Pakistan's western border.

BTW, there is a Baluch minority in Afghanistan as well (3% of the population).

san said...

Rohrbacher is a staunch nationalist, and we should respect him for that. Yes, during the Cold War, he supported what he thought was his country's interest in aiding Pakistan and conversely in attacking India ("enemy of my enemy is my friend"). But now that Pakistan has shown its treachery towards the US, he is firmly attacking it, and we shouldn't begrudge him for that. We should use this opening to pursue the logical and beneficial course of helping Baluchistan break away from Pakistan. We shouldn't be turning up our noses at anybody in this regard. Pakistan can be defeated and broken through unconventional warfare, just as it was defeated in East Bengal.