By Archen
Baloch
Balochistan
- Today is Ramadan in many parts of Muslim world and all Muslims are supposed
to be fasting including Pakistani Muslim. In Islamic teaching fasting doesn’t
mean only abstaining from taking food and drinking water, but one has also to
be as pious as a new born infant baby while fasting. By God decree he must also
not tell a lie! But things in Pakistan are quite different.
A top trending
hashtag, #ProsperousBalochistan, is currently under way in Pakistani social
media, in which everybody assumed it as a golden opportunity to excel in lying largely
reflective of Pakistani state narratives with keywords, like #Gwadar, #CPEC
#RAW #China #India #Balochi, #Afghan etc.
So what is
the urge of launching such a diversionary campaign in social media against
Baloch freedom struggle with a ridiculous hashtag of #ProsperousBalochistan in
the first day of holy month Ramadan?
World knows
how much Balochistan is prosperous but the fact is that Salma Dam project in
Afghanistan has hit the nail on the head perfectly and gave a new impetus to
Afghan-India relationship beyond Pakistan’s imaginations.
One of the
tweets is extremely interesting: “#ProsperousBalochistan but enemies are not
able to digest”. The poster in Urdu reads: “Pakistani army has started building
100 dams in Balochistan. That
is why India has become Jealous”. “Baharat ko Merchen Kaese Nalagen.
Reactionary
to the core, Pakistan regards Indian and Afghan friendship as a nexus webbed
around Balochistan freedom movement to destabilize Pakistan and the
$290-million Salma Dam project’s inauguration on Saturday by Narendera Modi and
Ashraf Gani has added fuel to Pakistani Jealousy all the more.
Balochistan
freedom struggle is an indigenous movement. To Pakistani rulers especially
Pujabi army, it is an insurgency incited by RAW to counterweight Kashmiri
separatist movement. Ultra nationalistic whim of Punjabi domination never
allowed Pakistan to become a true democratic state with devolved power bases. Baloch
leadership on many occasions resigned to false hope that Pakistan one day may
become a viable state that respects democracy. But alas, it never materialized!
Rather, it adopted a Baloch Containment Policy that rendered Baloch to abject
poverty.
finally, gauging Pakistani prosperous Balochistan let us seek help from somewhere else. Since
Pakistan does not allow International media enter Balochistan and assess
Pakistani brutalities and its Baloch Containment Policy to abject poverty,
therefore, Baloch do not have any option other than to request #NASA to help
them photograph entire Balochistan's landscape through powerful telescopes and
find out that how many Californian skyscrapers, villas, commercial building, factories, universities, colleges, hotels or hospitals Pakistan has built in Balochistan
since its occupation in 1948!
