The Baluchistan Issue - PakTribune

The Baluchistan Issue - PakTribune: "With the fast progress in the mega development projects in Baluchistan like recently completed Mekran Coastal Highway and the under construction Mirani Dam, Gwadar Deep Sea Port and Kacchi Canal along with the multi million dollar Saindak, which could transform the fate of the poverty stricken Baluchis soon, the Baluchistan is once again witnessing unrest due to the attacks on the government installations and counter operation by the government against the saboteurs. Who is (are) behind it all and whose purpose do such unrest and law and order situation serve? Who stands to gain and who stand to lose, should not be difficult to guess. Development in the region will usher in an era of progress, ameliorating the lot of the poverty stricken Bluchis. Once the down trodden Baluchis are freed from economic shackles and taste the fruits of development, their children graduate from schools and colleges opening vistas of future employment for them, roads are built in the difficult terrains connecting the interior and the hinterland with the main markets and big cities, their sick and ill children, women and the old get proper medical aid and care from the hospitals, and so on so forth, they will be a changed people and it shall not be possible for the Sardars to keep them subjugated any longer with the ease that they have been doing so for the centuries. Acts of sabotage and saboteur are, therefore, the only way of keeping the progress away from the Baluchis, which serves the purpose of the Sardars only too well.
When mortars and rockets fly around, the government is left with not much option but to use force to establish its writ in the area. Use of power, however, legit it may be is bound to draw criticism from most and particularly from the vested interests. This is what is happening in Baluchistan and the ongoing op"