Balochistan - History

Balochistan or Baluchistan is an arid region located in the Iranian Plateau in Southwest Asia, between Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The area is named after the numerous Baluch (or Baloch, Balouch) tribes, an Iranian people, who moved into the area from the west around 1000 A.D. All natives are considered Balochi even if they do not speak the Baluchi language; Pashto, Persian, and Brahui languages are also spoken in the region. The southern part of Balochistan is known as Makran. Balochistan - Landscape. Including:

• Balochistan - Landscape
• Balochistan - History
• Balochistan - Accession problem of 1948
• Balochistan - Prince Abdul Karim Khan
• Balochistan - Beginning of the movement and political allies
• Balochistan - Plan of action
• Balochistan - Armed struggle
• Balochistan - Soviets and Afghans
• Balochistan - Prince Karim's legitimacy outlawed
• Balochistan - The return of Karim
• Balochistan - His capture
• Balochistan - Trial
• Balochistan - Second Baloch National Resistance of 1968
• Balochistan - Balochistan Rebellion During the 70s
• Balochistan - Revival of Struggle for Provincial Rights
• Balochistan - Military Cantonments Issue
• Balochistan - Old Grievances
• Balochistan - Solutions
• Balochistan - Recent Development Projects

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The original inhabitants of ancient Balochistan, and other regions of Pakistan, were the aborigine tribes speaking languages related to Munda languages. The Dravidians invaded from the Iranian plateau and settled in Balochistan and Indus valley around 4000 BCE. The Brahui living in Balochistan still speak Dravidian language. The Indo-European tribes invaded from the Eastern Europe in 2000 BCE and settled in all regions of Pakistan. Later, these Aryan groups would become the Pakhtuns and the various Dardic and other tribes that currently popu ...

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Balochistan, Balochistan - Landscape, Balochistan - History, Balochistan - Accession problem of 1948, Balochistan - Prince Abdul Karim Khan, Balochistan - Beginning of the movement and political allies, Balochistan - Plan of action, Balochistan - Armed struggle, Balochistan - Soviets and Afghans, Balochistan - Prince Karim's legitimacy outlawed, Balochistan - The return of Karim, Balochistan - His capture, Balochistan - Trial, Balochistan - Second Baloch National Resistance of 1968, Balochistan - Balochistan Rebellion During the 70s, Balochistan - Revival of Struggle for Provincial Rights, Balochistan - Military Cantonments Issue, Balochistan - Old Grievances, Balochistan - Solutions, Balochistan - Recent Development Projects

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The single most critical macro factor is the social and electoral engineering initiated by the military regime of President Pervez Musharaf. By sidelining the mainstream PPP and PMLN parties and their natural “progressive” allies like the ANP, BNP and others in favor of the mullahs of the Jama’at i Islami and Jamiat i Ulema i Islam, General Musharraf has alienated the old non-religious tribal leadership as well as the new secular urban middle classes of Balochistan who see no economic o ...

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Balochistan, Balochistan - Landscape, Balochistan - History, Balochistan - Accession problem of 1948, Balochistan - Prince Abdul Karim Khan, Balochistan - Beginning of the movement and political allies, Balochistan - Plan of action, Balochistan - Armed struggle, Balochistan - Soviets and Afghans, Balochistan - Prince Karim's legitimacy outlawed, Balochistan - The return of Karim, Balochistan - His capture, Balochistan - Trial, Balochistan - Second Baloch National Resistance of 1968, Balochistan - Balochistan Rebellion During the 70s, Balochistan - Revival of Struggle for Provincial Rights, Balochistan - Military Cantonments Issue, Balochistan - Old Grievances, Balochistan - Solutions, Balochistan - Recent Development Projects

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The military cantonments planned at Gwadar, Dera Bugti and Kohlu (the capital of the Marri tribal lands) are viewed as outposts of repression and control, not development. The corrupt Frontier Corps is thoroughly hated and despised as a federal instrument of oppression. With the mullahs rampaging in much of Balochistan and defying the writ of the government, the rise of incipient armed nationalism poses a ...

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Balochistan, Balochistan - Landscape, Balochistan - History, Balochistan - Accession problem of 1948, Balochistan - Prince Abdul Karim Khan, Balochistan - Beginning of the movement and political allies, Balochistan - Plan of action, Balochistan - Armed struggle, Balochistan - Soviets and Afghans, Balochistan - Prince Karim's legitimacy outlawed, Balochistan - The return of Karim, Balochistan - His capture, Balochistan - Trial, Balochistan - Second Baloch National Resistance of 1968, Balochistan - Balochistan Rebellion During the 70s, Balochistan - Revival of Struggle for Provincial Rights, Balochistan - Military Cantonments Issue, Balochistan - Old Grievances, Balochistan - Solutions, Balochistan - Recent Development Projects

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Causes of grievances in Balochistan are twofold. On one side there are tribal leaders who don’t want any development in area, and on the other side is the government, which is reluctant to go against tribal leaders. Sui gas has never benefited the people of Balochistan. Huge royalties are paid to Sardar of Sui, but they fail to reach the poor of the area. The federal government earns billions from gas in the province but gives only a fraction of that back for development, and not even this is properly spent; provincial autonomy promised ...

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Many problems which plague Balochistan are due to its tribal society. The tribal leader usually holds the power. All development projects are first passed through the tribal leader, and if he thinks that it is dangerous to their leadership, he doesn’t allow it to materialize. The resources which are transferred to Balochistan are usually handed to tribal leaders, as they are owners of all the land the tribe has. It becomes their responsibility to spend it. They, in many cases, spend money on themselves or on their families, ...

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This was an infamous period in Pakistan history and second only to the Civil War of 1971 and loss of East Pakistan (Bangladesh). The National Awami Party led by “nationalists” Ghaus Bux Bizenjo, Sardar Ataullah Mengal, Khair Bux Marri, Nawab Akbar khan Bugti and Khan Wali Khan, dominated Balochistan and the NWFP. At the time, even the Jamiat i Ulema i Islam of Maulana Mufti Mahmud (father of Maulana Fazlur Rehman) thought fit ...

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Meanwhile the Prince and his party were regarded as a rebel group by a Farman royal order issued by the Khan on 24 May 1948, stating that no connection of any sort with the Prince and his party should be maintained nor should they be helped with rations, and that if any member of the rebel group committed an offence, he would be punished. The government of Pakistan moved the army to the military posts of Punjab, Chaman chashme, and Rastri near the Afghan borders, aiming to control the rebels’ rations, which were being sent by the pro-liber ...

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The refusal to grant autonomy and the continued existence of the "Sandeman system" re­sulted in civic unrest. On the night of May 16, 1948, Prince Abdul Karim Khan, the younger brother of the Khan, began leading a national liberation movement. He invited the leading members of nationalist political parties, (the Kalat State National Party, the Baloch League, and the Baloch National Workers Party) to join him in creating an independent "Greater Balochistan". Apart from his political motives, the prince was a member of the royal family and the former governor of the Makran province; the recognition of Sardar Bay ...

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The ruler of the Khanate of Balochistan, Mir Ahmad Yar Khan, is said to have been coerced by Jinnah to sign the document of accession by Balochi separatists. Critics dispute such claims as unrealistic and contrary to popular support for Jinnah, as the Khan of Kalat ruled even after Jinnah's death with the support of the government. However, The Khan was not an absolute monarch, and was required to act un ...

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Prince Karim decided to move to Afghanistan in order to obtain support and to organ­ize the movement. he wrote to the Khan on June 28, 1948, ex­plaining his decision. Some of the prominent political leaders who joined him were Mohamed Hussain Anka, the secretary of the Baloch League and the editor of Weekly Bolan Mastung • Malik Saeed Dehwar, the secretary of the Kalat State National Party • Qadir Bakhsh Nizamami, a member of the Baloch League and prominent members of the Communist Party, Sind-Balo ...

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Besides campaigning for cultural and religious unity, the prince also organized the Baloch Mujahedeen, consisting of the ex-soldiers and officers of the Khanate’s army, under the prince's command. The prince asked for help with recruitment, promising stature under his rule in return for successful recruiting. A person re­cruiting 100 men was offered the rank of a major and a person recruiting 50 men was entitled to the rank of captain. The Baloch liberation army had a secret agency called Jannisar (devotee), whose duty was t ...

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However, the Prince did not start a war of liberation because of Afghanistan’s re­fusal and the silence of the Soviet Union concerning assistance. During his stay in Sarlath, Prince Karim appointed Malik Saeed and Qadir Bakhsh Nizamani as his emis­saries to contact the Afghan government and to approach other embassies in order to get moral and material support. According to Nizamani, the Afghan authorities refused to provide any sort of help and told them either to reside as political refugees at Kandahar or to return. The Afghan authori ...

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The Prince was forced to return to the Khanate and negotiate for his demands peacefully. On 8 July 1948, when the news of the Prince’s arrival reached Kalat, the Prime Minister, Mr.Fell, accompanied by a Kalat State Force, went to meet the Prince at Earboi to deliver the Khan’s message. Balochistan - His capture. Abdul Karim entered Balochistan with Afghan help and organized a rebellion against Pakistan in the area of Jallawan with the aid of Mir Gohar Khan Zahrri, an influential tribal leader of the Z ...

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