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30 جنوری، 2014

Fazal Muham­mad Khan

Amid frus­tra­tions — thanks to the wors­ened law and order sit­u­a­tion and the bot­tom­most socio-eco­nom­ic mobil­i­ty in the province — Balochistan’s gov­ern­ment has under­tak­en some laud­able ini­tia­tives, par­tic­u­lar­ly in edu­ca­tion sec­tor. These include cabinet’s recent deci­sions to induct native moth­er lan­guages in edu­ca­tion­al cur­ricu­lum of the province as option­al sub­jects, intro­duc­ing chap­ters on such vet­er­an Baloch and Pash­tun nation­al­ist lead­ers as Ghaus Bakhsh Buzen­jo (1917–1989) and Sha­heed Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai (1907–1973), reg­u­lar­iz­ing more than 5000 teach­ers from eigh­teen dif­fer­ent dis­tricts recruit­ed under Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochis­tan Pack­age, and sus­pend­ing some cor­rupt offi­cials in the depart­ment.

Balochis­tan gov­ern­ment also took the lead when it suc­ceed­ed in hold­ing local bod­ies’ elec­tions on Decem­ber 7 in a peace­ful man­ner despite its volatile secu­ri­ty sit­u­a­tion while the oth­er provinces still employ foot-drag­ging devices, cit­ing one or oth­er rea­son, in devolv­ing pow­er to the low­er tiers.

By the same token, Balochis­tan gov­ern­ment also took the lead when it suc­ceed­ed in hold­ing local bod­ies’ elec­tions on Decem­ber 7 in a peace­ful man­ner despite its volatile secu­ri­ty sit­u­a­tion while the oth­er provinces still employ foot-drag­ging devices, cit­ing one or oth­er rea­son, in devolv­ing pow­er to the low­er tiers.

These ini­tia­tives cou­pled with the promis­es in health sec­tor, which include devolv­ing pow­er from the provin­cial health sec­re­tari­at at Quet­ta to the divi­sion­al and dis­trict lev­el offices in respec­tive cities, do not at all cer­ti­fy the provin­cial min­is­ters’ mantra that the sit­u­a­tion in Balochis­tan has improved in the last 8 months. That being said, cer­tain issues which need­ed imme­di­ate atten­tions of both fed­er­al and provin­cial gov­ern­ments since they came into pow­er in June last year still remain unad­dressed.

First, sec­tar­i­an strife con­tin­ues to per­pet­u­ate. Haz­ara Shi­ite eth­ni­cal minor­i­ty of the province still faces exis­ten­tial threat to its sur­vival caus­ing mas­sive legal and ille­gal immi­gra­tion of Haz­ara youth and fam­i­lies to Euro­pean coun­tries, par­tic­u­lar­ly to Aus­tralia. Many of these ille­gal migrants are becom­ing prey to human traf­fick­ing via land and sea routes, suf­fer from mis­er­able trav­el con­di­tions and some of them even die on the way. Thanks to government’s con­tin­ued inac­tion on pro­vid­ing pro­tec­tion to Haz­aras and the absence of effec­tive leg­is­la­tion on human traf­fick­ing, it has become a prof­itable busi­ness in the province.

Sec­ond, there appears no end to forced dis­ap­pear­ances. 70 years old Mama Qadeer Baloch is on Long March again this time en route to Islam­abad from Karachi, call­ing for the recov­ery of miss­ing per­sons and an end to forced dis­ap­pear­ances.

The num­ber of PhDs pro­duced each year by Pun­jab Uni­ver­si­ty alone exceeds the total num­ber of PhDs pro­duced by all the five pub­lic-sec­tor uni­ver­si­ties of Balochis­tan.

Not a sin­gle of those already miss­ing has been recov­ered since this gov­ern­ment (both fed­er­al and provin­cial) has sworn in. Dumped muti­lat­ed dead bod­ies of these miss­ing per­sons, how­ev­er, con­tin­ue to be found fre­quent­ly in rur­al areas of Balochis­tan.

In the back­drop of this grave issue, the stag­ger­ing state­ment of Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch on Octo­ber 27 last year, where­in he admit­ted his fail­ure in recov­er­ing miss­ing per­sons, raised the eye­brows of polit­i­cal observers and both Baloch and Pash­tun nation­al­ists. Such state­ments do noth­ing but rein­force the pop­u­lar notion that a par­al­lel gov­ern­ment run by those at Quet­ta Can­ton­ment still oper­ates in Balochis­tan.

Third, kid­nap­ping for ran­som has become a thriv­ing busi­ness these days in Balochis­tan with kid­nap­pers demand­ing ran­som amount in mil­lions from the fam­i­lies of those kid­napped. As an exam­ple, an amount of rupees one bil­lion has been demand­ed from the fam­i­ly of Awa­mi Nation­al Party’s cen­tral leader and its for­mer provin­cial pres­i­dent Arbab Abdul Zahir Kasi who was abduct­ed in Octo­ber last year and is still miss­ing. In yet anoth­er shock­ing instance, the renowned car­di­ol­o­gist Dr. Man­af Tareen’s fam­i­ly had to pay rupees 50 mil­lion for his safe arrival to home in Quet­ta on Decem­ber 2 last year after 78 days of his abduc­tion in Sep­tem­ber. Dis­grace­ful­ly, the gov­ern­ment has failed in its recov­ery oper­a­tion in both these abduc­tion cas­es.
While hear­ing the case of kid­nap­ping of Arbab Abdul Zahir in Novem­ber, Balochis­tan high Court remarked that the peo­ple were abduct­ed in day­time from the busy roads of the city and the police could do noth­ing. Court fur­ther said, “There are only four roads in Quet­ta and it is iron­ic that law enforcers are still unable to main­tain peace and pro­tect the cit­i­zens’ life and prop­er­ty”. These remarks explic­it­ly reflect the sever­i­ty of this issue.

Fourth, unem­ploy­ment in Balochis­tan is at 20% despite the fact that it makes only 5 % of country’s pop­u­la­tion. This cer­tain­ly makes youth in the province prone to recruit­ment in seces­sion­ist, extrem­ist and sec­tar­i­an mil­i­tant out­fits.

Fifth, research in the uni­ver­si­ties locat­ed in Balochis­tan is down to zero. Tech­ni­cal exper­tise required for the oper­a­tions of sci­en­tif­ic instru­ments in lab­o­ra­to­ries in uni­ver­si­ties is close to nonex­is­tence. Addi­tion­al­ly, the num­ber of PhDs pro­duced each year by Pun­jab Uni­ver­si­ty alone exceeds the total num­ber of PhDs pro­duced by all the five pub­lic-sec­tor uni­ver­si­ties of Balochis­tan. Worse still, grad­u­ates pro­duced by these uni­ver­si­ties very rarely have the capac­i­ty to com­pete in labor mar­ket and ser­vices sec­tor with the grad­u­ates of uni­ver­si­ties locat­ed in oth­er provinces.

So far it has only been a zero-sum game with those at the helm of affairs at the receiv­ing end.

Sixth, and the most impor­tant to me, Pash­tuns’ resent­ment over the par­i­ty prin­ci­ple (that Balochs and Pash­tuns must be treat­ed equal­ly in all sec­tors) has so far not been addressed even though the Pash­tuns’ par­ty Pash­tunkhwa Mili Awa­mi Par­ty has also been in pow­er since May 11 gen­er­al elec­tions.
Mer­it con­tin­ues to be slayed by the dis­trict-wise quo­ta sys­tem, depriv­ing com­pe­tent Pash­tun youths of their fun­da­men­tal right to com­pete both in admis­sions to edu­ca­tion­al insti­tutes and in recruit­ment to var­i­ous posts. In an adver­tise­ment on Jan­u­ary 21, 2014 by Balochis­tan Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion, for exam­ple, not even a sin­gle of total 344 posts of male lec­tur­ers has been reserved for the Pash­tuns. Addi­tion­al­ly, out of total 330 posts of female lec­tur­ers, only 81 seats have been reserved for female aspi­rants from Pash­tun-pop­u­lat­ed dis­tricts of Kil­la Abdul­lah, Kil­la Sai­ful­lah and Loralai. Put togeth­er, out of the total 674 seats, 593 seats are reserved for Baloch aspi­rants from fif­teen Baloch pop­u­lat­ed dis­tricts, and only 81 seats are reserved for Pash­tun aspi­rants from only three Pash­tun pop­u­lat­ed dis­tricts. More­over, albeit qual­i­fy­ing the cri­te­ria, Pash­tun bureau­crats still find them­selves deprived of the admin­is­tra­tive posts of high­er grades in provin­cial sec­re­tari­at.

By the same token, NADRA con­tin­ues to play the deplorable role of block­ing or resist­ing in issu­ing com­put­er­ized NICs to many Pash­tuns, ren­der­ing them the sta­tus of Muha­jirs in their own very land.
Cor­rup­tion, smug­gling, pover­ty, and reli­gious madrasas’ pour­ing in grad­u­ates with extrem­ist and mil­i­tant mind­sets in social fab­ric of the province are yet some oth­er straws which have con­tin­u­ous­ly been break­ing the camel’s back.

So far it has only been a zero-sum game with those at the helm of affairs at the receiv­ing end.
Leg­is­la­tion has to be ori­ent­ed in the direc­tion of a pros­per­ous Balochis­tan. Although we often come to hear the sto­ries of min­is­ters hold­ing the hands of bureau­crats in provin­cial sec­re­tari­at, show­ing them the whole morass, mak­ing them emerge from their inac­tion clout and work for wel­fare of peo­ple, yet they have to do more than that.

All they (leg­is­la­tors) need to do is to unite, work as one polit­i­cal unit and come up with uni­form pol­i­cy — accept­able to all — to paci­fy the sit­u­a­tion in Balochis­tan. They are bound to do it now, for if they do not, Balochistan’s conun­drum is bound to sur­face like a demon for the whole nation.

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Fazal Muham­mad Khan is a youth activist, politi­cian and Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of Insti­tute for Devel­op­ment Edu­ca­tion and Advo­ca­cy (IDEA). He can be reached at fazajana@gmail.com

9 Responses

  1. Its a good write­up but a lot of facts have been dis­tort­ed which need to be addressed.

    1)The par­i­ty prin­ci­ple as demand­ed by PKMAP is sense­less and in con­tra­ven­tion to basic prin­ci­ples of democ­ra­cy. Balochis­tan is a Baloch Major­i­ty province. The pop­u­la­tion of Pash­tun is around 30% and Baloch 65%. Ille­gal nat­u­ral­iza­tion of Afghan Immi­grants has swelled up the Pash­tun pop­u­la­tion but that can’t be count­ed.

    2)The crit­i­cism on 674 posts of lec­tur­ers is also beyond com­pre­hen­sion. These posts are allo­cat­ed to the dis­tricts where the vacan­cies are avail­able. There were more vacan­cies in Baloch areas and that’s why they are get­ting more share of these posts. When the posts of Pash­tun Areas are going to be adver­tised then they will get more share and so on.

    3) Dis­trict quo­ta sys­tem is must for Balochis­tan because here the qual­i­ty of edu­ca­tion and mer­it is not uni­form which is pre-req­ui­site for open mer­it sys­tem. For instance, if there is all Pak­istan open Mer­it for BMC seats then I am afraid even the TALENTED PASHTUNS will not get any set there. So open Mer­it at Balochis­tan is also a quo­ta sys­tem at Nation­al Lev­el.

    4)If NADRA or DGIP is cre­at­ing prob­lems for local Pash­tuns then its con­demnable but if they are doing it for Afghan Immi­grants then their act should be applaud­ed.

    5) Balochis­tan is a tur­bu­lent province where Baloch are suf­fer­ing more than Pash­tun. The times demand Baloch Pash­tun Uni­ty not quar­rels on pet­ty issues.

  2. Writer has done jus­tice with each and every sin­gle issue from first point to last one. Writer explained and pre­sent­ed a hon­est pic­ture of every sin­gle point as he appre­ci­at­ed the gov­ern­ment on some of the good ini­tia­tives for the wale-fare of masses.on oth­er hand ‚He did jus­tice and bold­ly crit­i­cized the gov­ern­ment on its incom­pe­ten­cy and wrong polices spe­cial­ly on the issue of miss­ing per­sons and recent allo­ca­tion of seats of lec­tures in edu­ca­tion depart­ment. Good attempt and kept up it.

  3. let me to answer the baseless,biased,senseless alle­ga­tions by hon­or­able Adan Amir,
    1) This is very unjust to claim that Pash­tun is only 30% of the pop­u­la­tion in Balochis­tan. As Pash­tun equal­ly shares the equal pro­por­tion with Balochs in the province as cit­ed in the Degree award­ing Research paper(THESIS) of GCU Lahore,History Depart­ment and fol­lowed by Hazra Com­mu­ni­ty and oth­er set­tlers and I wish that Mr.Adan could read some recent data to pol­ish and fresh his old and out-dat­ed infor­ma­tion and to accept the real­i­ty open­ly and let the way for the bet­ter­ment and devel­op­ment of the province.

  4. 2) this is my com­ment in response to Mr.Adans’ sec­ond point, Again i wish Mr.Adan could read some thing regard­ing the func­tion­ing and recruit­ment pol­i­cy of the Balochis­tan pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion of 1991.i am post­ing my let­ter to edi­tor ( A Hum­ble Request) on issue of Unfair and unjust allo­ca­tion of Vacan­cies in Edu­ca­tion Department.I wish ‚He would man­age time to read it which I don’t expect read­ing from him at all.
    http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/letters/30-Jan-2014/a‑humble-request

  5. 3) Yes, i am slight­ly agree on this point that Quo­ta is way to resolve the rep­re­sen­ta­tion of all com­mu­ni­ties but on oth­er hand ‚Quo­ta is demor­al­iz­ing the tal­ent­ed youth of the province and you are self-con­tra­dic­to­ry that once you are say­ing that Pash­tuns are only 30% then Why are you afraid of Open Mer­it sys­tem in the province.The Quo­ta is prefer­able in the case of vacan­cies allo­ca­tions on zon­al sys­tem because it will let the com­pe­tent stu­dents to go ahead for com­pe­ti­tion while Quo­ta sys­tem in edu­ca­tion­al insti­tutes is immoral,ant-merit and deprived the tal­ent­ed and hard work­ers from their rights there­fore, let open door for mer­it and it will enhanced the sense of con­fi­dence of youth for com­pe­ti­tion at every lev­el.

  6. 5) I don’t have enough infor­ma­tion on this point at all but I can believe on writer stance as respon­si­ble writer which is clear­ly depict from his entire work. This issue need dire atten­tion from rep­re­sen­ta­tive of mass­es spe­cial­ly from PkMAP is the House.
    Yes, you are right in last point that Balochs are fac­ing the worst time of their life in the province. But,Pashtuns can not com­pro­mised on their rights on oth­er misers of oth­ers and This is not pash­tus who cre­ates the prob­lems for Baloch in the province but Pash­tuns are equal­ly sad­den by their worst time of life. Pash­tuns in this province is fac­ing one prob­lem which is mat­ter of life and death for them which “IDENTITY CRISIS” which can be resolved through restora­tion of British Balochis­tan and this is first and last demand by the pash­tuns of Balochis­tan. Best of luck.THanks

  7. 4) I don’t have enough infor­ma­tion on this point at all but I can believe on writer stance as respon­si­ble writer which is clear­ly depict from his entire work. This issue need dire atten­tion from rep­re­sen­ta­tive of mass­es spe­cial­ly from PkMAP is the House.
    Yes, you are right in last point that Balochs are fac­ing the worst time of their life in the province. But,Pashtuns can not com­pro­mised on their rights on oth­er misers of oth­ers and This is not pash­tus who cre­ates the prob­lems for Baloch in the province but Pash­tuns are equal­ly sad­den by their worst time of life. Pash­tuns in this province is fac­ing one prob­lem which is mat­ter of life and death for them which “IDENTITY CRISIS” which can be resolved through restora­tion of British Balochis­tan and this is first and last demand by the pash­tuns of Balochis­tan. Best of luck.THanks

  8. I just saw the com­ments in response to my com­ments so apol­o­gize for the late reply…

    Mr. Hazrat Wali Kakar has termed my com­ments as baseless,biased,senseless alle­ga­tions. Thanks for the com­pli­ments now let me reply to the pearls of wis­dom shared by this gen­tle­man.

    1)A the­sis can’t prove the pop­u­la­tion of a province. The research con­duct­ed for the­sis is done through sam­pling and that can nev­er tell the eth­nic com­po­si­tion of a province. I am amazed as how the research of uni­ver­si­ties is pre­sent­ed as a sol­id proof of pop­u­la­tion. There has been increase in pop­u­la­tion in Balochis­tan and pri­mar­i­ly its due to Afghan Immi­grants which are not Pak­istani cit­i­zens. So Pop­u­la­tion of Balochis­tan can’t be 50–50 for Baloch and Pash­toons on wish­es of a polit­i­cal par­ty.…

    2) Now that the vacan­cies of lec­tur­ers have been can­celled, i still would like to reply to this. Who has the port­fo­lio of edu­ca­tion in this gov­ern­ment? PKMAP.. If the posts were lec­tur­er were announced in unjust man­ner than it was not pos­si­ble with­out the con­sent of PKMAP.. Now same advi­sor of PKAMP has announced can­cel­la­tion of those posts. There can be either of two con­clu­sions from this fias­co, either PKMAP made a wrong deci­sion ini­tial­ly when it allowed the lec­tur­er vacan­cies or it just orches­trat­ed this dra­ma to show that Pash­toons are not get­ting thi­er rights. Sim­ple pet­ty pol­i­tics..

  9. 3) I want Mr Hazrat Wali Kakar to re-read my com­ment about quo­ta sys­tem. I has noth­ing to do with pop­u­la­tion but with the stan­dard of mer­it… In present sit­u­a­tion of Balochis­tan appli­ca­tion of open mer­it will immoral and trav­es­ty of jus­tice British Balochis­tan was not a Pash­toon only province it also had Baloch pop­u­la­tion. In fact that was a real 50–50 thing.

    5) Last gen­er­al elec­tions were most rigged in his­to­ry after 1977 elec­tions. The provin­cial assem­bly is select­ed rather than elect­ed. I intend to write a detailed arti­cle on elec­tions soon…

    Pash­toons are get­ting more than their share in provin­cial set­up of Balochis­tan be it bureau­cra­cy or the monop­oly on uni­ver­si­ties etc. Its along debate. Its Balochis­tan province which is suf­fer­ing and inter­nal quar­rels will only help the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment in con­tin­ue depriv­ing Balochis­tan from its rights. Only one par­ty PKMAP is caus­ing trou­ble oth­er pash­toon par­ties such as ANP don’t agree with fal­la­cy of par­i­ty prin­ci­ple.

    I co-inci­den­tal­ly read your Let­ter to edi­tor before you shared it here. I would like to share my arti­cle about this issue and I hope that you will read it 🙂

    https://laaltain.pk/rebuttal-to-the-untold-story-of-pashtoons-in-balochistan/

    Thanks.. Any con­struc­tive response is always wel­come

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9 Responses

  1. Its a good write­up but a lot of facts have been dis­tort­ed which need to be addressed.

    1)The par­i­ty prin­ci­ple as demand­ed by PKMAP is sense­less and in con­tra­ven­tion to basic prin­ci­ples of democ­ra­cy. Balochis­tan is a Baloch Major­i­ty province. The pop­u­la­tion of Pash­tun is around 30% and Baloch 65%. Ille­gal nat­u­ral­iza­tion of Afghan Immi­grants has swelled up the Pash­tun pop­u­la­tion but that can’t be count­ed.

    2)The crit­i­cism on 674 posts of lec­tur­ers is also beyond com­pre­hen­sion. These posts are allo­cat­ed to the dis­tricts where the vacan­cies are avail­able. There were more vacan­cies in Baloch areas and that’s why they are get­ting more share of these posts. When the posts of Pash­tun Areas are going to be adver­tised then they will get more share and so on.

    3) Dis­trict quo­ta sys­tem is must for Balochis­tan because here the qual­i­ty of edu­ca­tion and mer­it is not uni­form which is pre-req­ui­site for open mer­it sys­tem. For instance, if there is all Pak­istan open Mer­it for BMC seats then I am afraid even the TALENTED PASHTUNS will not get any set there. So open Mer­it at Balochis­tan is also a quo­ta sys­tem at Nation­al Lev­el.

    4)If NADRA or DGIP is cre­at­ing prob­lems for local Pash­tuns then its con­demnable but if they are doing it for Afghan Immi­grants then their act should be applaud­ed.

    5) Balochis­tan is a tur­bu­lent province where Baloch are suf­fer­ing more than Pash­tun. The times demand Baloch Pash­tun Uni­ty not quar­rels on pet­ty issues.

  2. Writer has done jus­tice with each and every sin­gle issue from first point to last one. Writer explained and pre­sent­ed a hon­est pic­ture of every sin­gle point as he appre­ci­at­ed the gov­ern­ment on some of the good ini­tia­tives for the wale-fare of masses.on oth­er hand ‚He did jus­tice and bold­ly crit­i­cized the gov­ern­ment on its incom­pe­ten­cy and wrong polices spe­cial­ly on the issue of miss­ing per­sons and recent allo­ca­tion of seats of lec­tures in edu­ca­tion depart­ment. Good attempt and kept up it.

  3. let me to answer the baseless,biased,senseless alle­ga­tions by hon­or­able Adan Amir,
    1) This is very unjust to claim that Pash­tun is only 30% of the pop­u­la­tion in Balochis­tan. As Pash­tun equal­ly shares the equal pro­por­tion with Balochs in the province as cit­ed in the Degree award­ing Research paper(THESIS) of GCU Lahore,History Depart­ment and fol­lowed by Hazra Com­mu­ni­ty and oth­er set­tlers and I wish that Mr.Adan could read some recent data to pol­ish and fresh his old and out-dat­ed infor­ma­tion and to accept the real­i­ty open­ly and let the way for the bet­ter­ment and devel­op­ment of the province.

  4. 2) this is my com­ment in response to Mr.Adans’ sec­ond point, Again i wish Mr.Adan could read some thing regard­ing the func­tion­ing and recruit­ment pol­i­cy of the Balochis­tan pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion of 1991.i am post­ing my let­ter to edi­tor ( A Hum­ble Request) on issue of Unfair and unjust allo­ca­tion of Vacan­cies in Edu­ca­tion Department.I wish ‚He would man­age time to read it which I don’t expect read­ing from him at all.
    http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/letters/30-Jan-2014/a‑humble-request

  5. 3) Yes, i am slight­ly agree on this point that Quo­ta is way to resolve the rep­re­sen­ta­tion of all com­mu­ni­ties but on oth­er hand ‚Quo­ta is demor­al­iz­ing the tal­ent­ed youth of the province and you are self-con­tra­dic­to­ry that once you are say­ing that Pash­tuns are only 30% then Why are you afraid of Open Mer­it sys­tem in the province.The Quo­ta is prefer­able in the case of vacan­cies allo­ca­tions on zon­al sys­tem because it will let the com­pe­tent stu­dents to go ahead for com­pe­ti­tion while Quo­ta sys­tem in edu­ca­tion­al insti­tutes is immoral,ant-merit and deprived the tal­ent­ed and hard work­ers from their rights there­fore, let open door for mer­it and it will enhanced the sense of con­fi­dence of youth for com­pe­ti­tion at every lev­el.

  6. 5) I don’t have enough infor­ma­tion on this point at all but I can believe on writer stance as respon­si­ble writer which is clear­ly depict from his entire work. This issue need dire atten­tion from rep­re­sen­ta­tive of mass­es spe­cial­ly from PkMAP is the House.
    Yes, you are right in last point that Balochs are fac­ing the worst time of their life in the province. But,Pashtuns can not com­pro­mised on their rights on oth­er misers of oth­ers and This is not pash­tus who cre­ates the prob­lems for Baloch in the province but Pash­tuns are equal­ly sad­den by their worst time of life. Pash­tuns in this province is fac­ing one prob­lem which is mat­ter of life and death for them which “IDENTITY CRISIS” which can be resolved through restora­tion of British Balochis­tan and this is first and last demand by the pash­tuns of Balochis­tan. Best of luck.THanks

  7. 4) I don’t have enough infor­ma­tion on this point at all but I can believe on writer stance as respon­si­ble writer which is clear­ly depict from his entire work. This issue need dire atten­tion from rep­re­sen­ta­tive of mass­es spe­cial­ly from PkMAP is the House.
    Yes, you are right in last point that Balochs are fac­ing the worst time of their life in the province. But,Pashtuns can not com­pro­mised on their rights on oth­er misers of oth­ers and This is not pash­tus who cre­ates the prob­lems for Baloch in the province but Pash­tuns are equal­ly sad­den by their worst time of life. Pash­tuns in this province is fac­ing one prob­lem which is mat­ter of life and death for them which “IDENTITY CRISIS” which can be resolved through restora­tion of British Balochis­tan and this is first and last demand by the pash­tuns of Balochis­tan. Best of luck.THanks

  8. I just saw the com­ments in response to my com­ments so apol­o­gize for the late reply…

    Mr. Hazrat Wali Kakar has termed my com­ments as baseless,biased,senseless alle­ga­tions. Thanks for the com­pli­ments now let me reply to the pearls of wis­dom shared by this gen­tle­man.

    1)A the­sis can’t prove the pop­u­la­tion of a province. The research con­duct­ed for the­sis is done through sam­pling and that can nev­er tell the eth­nic com­po­si­tion of a province. I am amazed as how the research of uni­ver­si­ties is pre­sent­ed as a sol­id proof of pop­u­la­tion. There has been increase in pop­u­la­tion in Balochis­tan and pri­mar­i­ly its due to Afghan Immi­grants which are not Pak­istani cit­i­zens. So Pop­u­la­tion of Balochis­tan can’t be 50–50 for Baloch and Pash­toons on wish­es of a polit­i­cal par­ty.…

    2) Now that the vacan­cies of lec­tur­ers have been can­celled, i still would like to reply to this. Who has the port­fo­lio of edu­ca­tion in this gov­ern­ment? PKMAP.. If the posts were lec­tur­er were announced in unjust man­ner than it was not pos­si­ble with­out the con­sent of PKMAP.. Now same advi­sor of PKAMP has announced can­cel­la­tion of those posts. There can be either of two con­clu­sions from this fias­co, either PKMAP made a wrong deci­sion ini­tial­ly when it allowed the lec­tur­er vacan­cies or it just orches­trat­ed this dra­ma to show that Pash­toons are not get­ting thi­er rights. Sim­ple pet­ty pol­i­tics..

  9. 3) I want Mr Hazrat Wali Kakar to re-read my com­ment about quo­ta sys­tem. I has noth­ing to do with pop­u­la­tion but with the stan­dard of mer­it… In present sit­u­a­tion of Balochis­tan appli­ca­tion of open mer­it will immoral and trav­es­ty of jus­tice British Balochis­tan was not a Pash­toon only province it also had Baloch pop­u­la­tion. In fact that was a real 50–50 thing.

    5) Last gen­er­al elec­tions were most rigged in his­to­ry after 1977 elec­tions. The provin­cial assem­bly is select­ed rather than elect­ed. I intend to write a detailed arti­cle on elec­tions soon…

    Pash­toons are get­ting more than their share in provin­cial set­up of Balochis­tan be it bureau­cra­cy or the monop­oly on uni­ver­si­ties etc. Its along debate. Its Balochis­tan province which is suf­fer­ing and inter­nal quar­rels will only help the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment in con­tin­ue depriv­ing Balochis­tan from its rights. Only one par­ty PKMAP is caus­ing trou­ble oth­er pash­toon par­ties such as ANP don’t agree with fal­la­cy of par­i­ty prin­ci­ple.

    I co-inci­den­tal­ly read your Let­ter to edi­tor before you shared it here. I would like to share my arti­cle about this issue and I hope that you will read it 🙂

    https://laaltain.pk/rebuttal-to-the-untold-story-of-pashtoons-in-balochistan/

    Thanks.. Any con­struc­tive response is always wel­come

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