Balochs appeal Afghanistan Government for help

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WASHINGTON DC /IntelliBriefs/ --- The American Friends of Balochistan, led by its president Robert Selle, met with the Ambassador of Afghanistan to the U.S. Said T. Jawad on Thursday afternoon and urged Kabul to take up unsettled Durand Line issue to the International Court of Justice for lasting peace in the region.


Robert Selle

Selle, who was acompanied by Ahmar Mustikhan and Nabi Baloch, informed Jawad that there was a nexus between the atrocities committed in Balochistan and terror attacks on Afghanistan.

The Afghan Ambassador expressed concerned that Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, has emerged as the epicenter of terror attacks on Afghanistan.


"Since last fall, coupled with the killing of Nawab Bugti, the attacks on Afghan forces and allied NATO and U.S. forces have increased inside Afghanistan, and we believe there is a strong nexus between the assassination and the attacks, in that Pakistan Military Intelligence and Inter Services Intelligence agency are behind both," TheA.F.B. said in its letter to Jawad, a copy of which is being sen to the U.S.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Jawad promised to immediately convey the A.F.B. concerns and request to President Karzai.
"No doubt, the Baloch and Afghan peoples are tied with one another not only by historic, but also blood ties," Selle told Jawad.

Selle said he wanted to bring to the attention of the Afghan government Balochistan' s unending trail of blood and tears has worsened since the August 26 assassination of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, former governor and chief minister of Balochistan.
"After the assassination of Nawab Bugti, the Baloch, as a people, have lost trust in Pakistan, though they never in their hearts accepted the forceful annexation of their homeland by Pakistan in March 1948, seven months after Pakistan was carved out of India by the British," the A.F.B. letter to the Aghan government said.

The A.F.B. said it was of the considered view that Pakistan had never been a natural geopolitical entity, as was evidenced by the creation of Bangladesh in December 1971.

The A.F.B. said that many of the geostrategic challenges that face the Afghan nation and people today stem from the artificially drawn Durand Line that lapsed in the 1990s and Pashtun territories should have reverted to Afghanistan.
But Pakistan propped up the despicable Taliba'an regime in Kabul just to thwart returning Pashtun territories to Afghanistan.

Mustikhan pointed out that under the Taliba'an Pakistan army establishment was calling Afghanistan its "fifth province" and the Pakistan army would not reconcile to the idea of a democratic and stable Afghanistan.

The A.F.B. told the Afghan ambassador the Baloch as a people and sovereign nation would support the Afghan government in every way pssible have all Pashtun territories returned to it as an integral part of Afghanistan.
"We believe that redemarcation of international boundaries offers a comprehensive and lasting solution to Pakistan-sponsored bloodshed inside Afghanistan, " the A.F.B. team told Jawad.

The A.F.B. requested the Afghan government under President Hamid Karzai to approach the International Court of Justice at The Hague to have the issues settled. "The Baloch would stand on the side of the Afghan people, in return for the creation of an independent, democratic and secular Balochistan, " the A.F.B. letter said.

The A.F.B. also conveyed to the Afghan government and people, under the charismatic leadership of President Hamid Karzai, a message of peace and friendship on behalf of His Highness, the Khan of Kalat Mir Suleman Daud Ahmadzai, the popular, traditional and dejure ruler of occupied Balochistan.

A Baloch jirga under the Khan of Kalat has already decided to take up the issue of Pakistan's violating its agreement to the I.C.J. at the Hague.