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habshi · Guest

All the talk about Kashmir , and it was Pakistan which started
taking over the royal kingdoms without elections.Kalat is as big as
Indian Kashmir and it actually declared independence but the Pakistani
army invaded Kalat and Kashmir too.
Note Lahore was a Hindu , Sikh majority city but was given to
Pakistan because Nehru and Gandhi were too pacifist to object.

excerpts
http://www.worldpress.org/Asia/2595.cfm

Within 24 hours of the creation of Pakistan in 1947, the Khan
of Kalat (the largest "princely state" in Baluchistan) declared
independence. On April 1, 1948, the Pakistani army invaded and the
Khan capitulated. His brother, Karim, continued to resist with around
700 guerrillas but was soon crushed.
During the British Raj, Britain annexed a strip of land
adjoining Afghanistan ("British Baluchistan") but beyond that did not
interfere in the affairs of Baluchistan so long as the Baluch allowed
the British Army access to Afghanistan. The Baluch campaigned for
independence during the final decades of the British Raj but were
compelled to join Pakistan in 1947.

The government in Islamabad sought to subsume Baluch identity into a
larger Pakistani identity. Part of its strategy was an attempt to
destroy the power of the tribal chiefs and concentrate all authority
in the central government. This strategy continues to this day. Even
the first two constitutions of Pakistan did not recognize the Baluch
as a distinct group.

Since independence, Islamabad has come into open conflict with the
Baluch on four occasions — 1948, 1958, 1962, and, most bloodily, from
1973 to 1977, when a growing guerrilla movement led to an armed
insurrection that ravaged the province.

Within 24 hours of the creation of Pakistan in 1947, the Khan of Kalat
(the largest "princely state" in Baluchistan) declared independence.
On April 1, 1948, the Pakistani army invaded and the Khan capitulated.
His brother, Karim, continued to resist with around 700 guerrillas but
was soon crushed.

Islamabad merged the four provinces of West Pakistan into "One Unit"
in 1954. This was a bid to counter the strength of East Pakistan
(which
The Khan of Kalat was arrested and large-scale arrests were carried
out. Nauroz Khan led a resistance of 1,000 militia that fought the
army in pitched battles for over a year. In May 1959, Nauroz Khan was
arrested at a parley with the army and died in prison in 1964,
becoming a symbol of Baluch resistance. Five of his relatives,
including his son, were hanged.
The Pakistani army invaded Baluchistan with 78,000 troops supported by
Iranian Cobra helicopters and was resisted by some 50,000
tribespeople. The conflict took the lives of 3,300 Pakistani troops,
5,300 tribespeople and thousands of civilians. In 1977, the military
staged a coup and overthrew Bhutto, declared "victory" in Baluchistan
and withdrew.
Between December 2005, when the Pakistan military launched its most
recent assault on Baluchistan, and June 2006, more than 900 Baluch
have been killed, 140,000 displaced, 450 political activists (mainly
from the Baluch National Party) disappeared and 4,000 activists
arrested.

In late 2005 to early 2006, the Pakistan military laid siege to Dera
Bugti, attacking with artillery and air strikes. Many civilians were
killed and 85 percent of the 25,000-strong population fled. The town
of Kohlu also came under siege from Pakistan forces around the same
time, virtually imprisoning the 12,000 inhabitants for weeks.

The end result of the expropriation of Baluchistan's natural resources
and the marginalization of Baluch from development projects is the
province's low standard of living. It is the poorest province in
Pakistan. According to the Social Policy and Development Center in
Karachi, Baluchistan has the highest levels of poverty in Pakistan;
nearly double that of the Punjab. Over half the population subsists
below the official poverty line, less than 50 percent have clean
drinking water, only 50 percent of children attend primary school and
only 33 percent of children up to two years old have any form of
immunization. Women's literacy is the lowest in Pakistan, standing at
just 7 percent. The federal government's 2003-04 Labor Force Survey
shows urban unemployment of 12.5 percent in Baluchistan compared to
9.7 percent for Pakistan as a whole. Electricity is supplied to barely
20 percent of the population.

Nusrat Rizvi · Guest

On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:58:50 GMT, hi@anony (habshi) wrote:

What this article fails to mention is that all the while Punjabis
claimed all of Baluchistan to be part of Pakistan and all Baluchis as
citizens of Pakistan, the Punjabis had no qualms in using their air
force to bomb and strafe its citizen, thus becoming only nation in
history to do so.

Brablo · Guest

Baluchis, unlike the Pashtuns, resemble Indians. I've never met a
Baluchi, but I'm under the impression that they're polite.

Nusrat Rizvi · Guest

On 9 Mar 2007 09:33:42 -0800, "Brablo" <gestureofrespect@yahoo.com>
wrote: