Foreign Correspondence

[Amaunet]

U.S. probably targeting civilians in Balochistan.

Coal I wanted to run this by you.

-Am

Balochistan is the home of Gwadar port a proposed gateway for the external trade of the Xinjiang province and a promising regional base for the Chinese navy.

This would put the Chinese navy next to Iran’s shipping lane the Strait of Hormuz. The Chinese have a considerable investment in Iran’s oil and gas. Bush plans on attacking Iran by choking the Strait of Hormuz.

Bush is going for a takeover of Balochistan setting up a military occupation as a means to contain Iran. This is a clandestine operation and the American public will as usual remain oblivious.
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Former Lahore High Court Bar (LHCBA) president Hafiz Abdul Rehman Ansari said that the foundation of Pakistan was laid in Bengal, but that very part broke away from the country. A similar conspiracy could now be witnessed to realise the American dream of “Greater Balochistan”, he claimed. He demanded that the government stop the operation, in which innocent citizens were being killed.

Mohammad Kamran adds from Islamabad: The Joint Action Committee of Lawyers on Friday protested in front of the Supreme Court against the military operation in Balochistan and called it a step towards a massive militarisation of civil Officials of the Pakistan Bar Council, Supreme Court Bar Association and representatives of high courts and district bars took part in the demonstration. They shouted slogans against ‘Pentagon-GHQ alliance’, ‘Musharraf-Bush friendship’ and called prime minister-in-waiting Shaukat Aziz ‘an agent of the United States and Israel’.

Pakistan Bar Council Vice Chairman Rashid A Rizvi said the government was depriving the smaller provinces of their basic rights. He said any military operation in Balochistan or any other province would be against provincial autonomy. Mr Rizvi said the plan to form three cantonments in Balochistan was tantamount to military occupation of civilian areas.

Supreme Court Bar Association President Justice (r) Tariq Mahmood said that the government was responsible for provincial disharmony. Citing the example of Balochistan, he said no civilian could enter the cantt area without an entry sticker. “Nowhere in the country is such a practice followed. Why is the government so harsh with Balochistan”, he asked. Justice Mehmood said ISPR Director General Major General Shaukat Sultan was making immature statements to justify the military measures in the area which were absolutely illegal and unconstitutional. SCBA Vice President Muhammad Ikram Chaudhry said Thursday’s public meeting in Shaukat Aziz’s election campaign held on the premises of the Cadet College Hasanabdal was ample proof of the government’s partiality in the by-elections. Mr Ikram called Shaukat Aziz an American agent who would pursue a US agenda.

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Foreign involvement could not be ruled out in the bomb blasts that had rocked the province, he said. When told that the BLA had claimed responsibility for the bombing, he said foreign elements could be using local proxies to carry out terrorist activities. Such activities could hurt negotiations between the nationalist parties and federal government, he said, adding that it was the nationalists’ moral duty to separate themselves from such organisations. Talking about the BLA, the chief minister said such organisations might be active in their territories, but the government would bring them to justice. – Told to Daily Times by Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Yousaf

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