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Khan of Kalat warns Baluch of conspiracies
May 17, 2009.
The De Jure Ruler of Baluchistan, Khan of Kalat Suleman Daud Ahmedzai has urged the Baluch to shed their differences and keep aside their political
loyalties to work on the single point agenda of liberation of Baluchistan.
"There are elements out there who are trying to discredit the Baluch so that no Baluch may get any help from anyone," Ahmedzai, whose family had ruled
over the Baluch tribal confederacy for more than 30 generations said.
He regretted that almost all Baluch in the West appear to be working on a personal agenda and at war with one another.
He made it clear that every nation should have its own leaders and pointed out there is no war of liberation in neighboring Sindh .
"Liberation of Baluchistan is not a Sindhi issue," he said. "Sindhis are today sharing power with Punjabis in Pakistan. They are saying Pakistan khapay
[We want Pakistan]. It is only the Baluch who are saying we do not want Pakistan."
Khan of Kalat recently attended a disposition of two of his fiercest critics, resistance leaders Hairbyair Marri and Faiz Baluch, in London at a committee
room of the House of Lords.
Peter Tatchell, an international human and gay righst acitivst had helped organized the event.
"Someone has to make a begnning and that is the reason I went there," he said on phone Sunday from his home in Cardiff.
"Unless the Baluch unite in the U.S. no one is going to listen to them," he said.
Baluchistan is a Texas-sized region divided among Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. The fiercely territorial and independence minded Baluch want the
foreigners, especially the Punjabis and Persians, out of their native lands.
"It is not a regional problem" Khan of Kalat.
April 26, 2009
The Khan of Kalat, Mir Suleiman Daud Khan, is determined to take the case of Balochistan to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Hague at any cost.
Currently living in South Wales after having arrived in England following the Aug 2006 murder of Nawab Akbar Bugti, the Khan of Kalat applied for asylum
and still awaits the outcome of his application. Until a decision is made, he cannot travel abroad to present the case of his homeland to the world. He
would like to tell the world that Pakistan has violated the 1948 treaty and 1973 constitution that promised autonomy to the four provinces.
Khan says he has been on the hit-list of Pakistani security agencies after he uniquely unified the warring tribes, following the death of Nawab Bugti,
convincing them of the power of unity and joint struggle for an autonomous Balochistan. This jirga was held after nearly 130 years and attended by 85
sardars and 300 tribal elders. He says his initiative was a resounding success and that worried the power brokers in Islamabad.
"I would take Pakistan to the ICJ and make its establishment answerable for the slow-motion genocide of my people. The random and targeted killings,
the torture and total disregard for the rights of Baloch people is a scandal and it needs world's attention. It is no more a local or regional problem," the
35th Khan of Kalat told TNS.
"Due to its wealth and strategic location, Balochistan is of high strategic importance to the world. West should take interest in what's going on there."
On the question of alleged foreign funding, the Khan of Kalat candidly said "We will not mind taking help from Satan, let alone US, Britain or India. That
distinction finished long time ago. Unlike many other Muslim conflict zones, Muslims are killings Muslims in Pakistan and it has boiled down to staying
alive in Balochistan."
Like many other Baloch nationalist leaders, he has lost faith in dialogue and sees no point in even discussing the possibilities of reconciliation. "That
time is not with us anymore. Dialogue with Pakistani establishment is a waste of time. Talks didn't yield anything for us. Period."
This king without a kingdom says those Baloch sardars who don't support the on-going "fight in pure self-defence against Pakistan army's aggression"
are cowards and traitors and history will not treat them kindly.
Sitting 4,000 miles away from his people, Khan's solution to the Balochistan problem is simple: rise up in unity in whatever way you can to obtain your
rights and independence. For now, Khan is in a limbo and will have to wait and see what asylum and immigrations courts decide about his asylum case.
The struggle in the meanwhile, he says, will continue.
-- M. Ali. Shah
From Pakistan to Cardiff: The King of Kalat
A royal asylum-seeker wants to stop the Taliban and win independence for his Baluch people ... if only he could escape from South Wales. Jerome
Taylor reports
LONDON: March 16, 2009. In an anonymous pebble-dashed semi-detached house on the outskirts of Cardiff, a powerfully built, bearded man with a
green prayer cap looks through a folio of 19th-century letters sent by the British Government to his kingdom. Stashed in overflowing plastic bags and a
tattered brown suitcase, some are even written on pieces of animal skin. Rummaging through the case, he pulls out a large piece of parchment, stained
yellow with time and covered with lines of elegant Persian script. "This is the first treaty that was signed between my people and the British in 1841," he
says. "It was the first piece of paper signed by the British that recognised the state of Kalat."
Welcome to the humble Welsh abode of His Royal Highness Khan Suleman Daud, the 35th Khan of Kalat.
Until three years ago, Khan Suleman's house was a sumptuous desert palace on a windswept ridge in Baluchistan – the mountainous and mineral-rich
Pakistani province where separatists have waged an insurgency to carve out their own independent state for much of the past 60 years.
Whenever the Khan left his palace in his two armour-plated, gold Humvees, he would be accompanied by dozens of armed bodyguards. One of western
Pakistan's most influential tribal leaders, he commanded the loyalty and respect of thousands of Baluch tribesmen and had long angered Pakistan's
military establishment by campaigning for independence, though he opposes armed resistance.
The Khan was forced to flee after being targeted for speaking out against the Pakistani military's well-documented human rights abuses. He now whiles
away his days as an anonymous asylum-seeker in south Wales, separated from his people by 4,000 miles and trapped in the seemingly everlasting
limbo of Britain's immigration system.
He left Pakistan after the military assassination of Akbar Khan Bugti, 79, the soft-spoken, Oxford-educated, separatist leader accused by the Pakistanis
of co-ordinating the shadowy Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA).
"I want more than anything to return to my homeland, but I cannot at the moment," said the Khan. "If I returned to Pakistan, my life would be in danger
because the military regard me as a threat. And yet, everything I have is back in Kalat. Back home, I have palaces, vast amounts of land, the respect and
love of my people. Here I am in limbo, living in a three bedroom house in Cardiff."
That someone as influential as the Khan has ended up as an asylum-seeker in Britain – a country that he says "betrayed" the Baluch people – offers a
21st-century snapshot of colonial fall-out.
Locating Khan Suleman's kingdom on a map of the world is difficult but, less than a century ago, the Khanate of Kalat was a thriving confederacy of tribes
spread across much of what is now western Pakistan, southern Afghanistan and south-eastern Iran.
Populated by fiercely independent Baluch warriors, Kalat retained much of its independence from the British as the Raj's political agents spread
throughout the sub-continent, toppling, bribing and replacing its regional leaders as they went.
Regarded as too wild to tame but a useful buffer against Russians, the Baluch were allowed to keep their sovereignty. Although successive treaties
chipped away at their territory, the Khans of Kalat remained the region's most powerful independent rulers.
As the Partition of India loomed, Khan Suleman's grandfather, Ahmad Yar Khan, was assured that the Baluch would be allowed to keep their
independence. A deal was struck whereby Kalat and the new state of Pakistan would be independent of each other but would share currency, foreign
policy and defence equally.
Yet, after just six months of independence, the Pakistani military stormed in and forced Ahmed Yar Khan to cede his khanate to Pakistan. Forgotten by
the West, Baluchi separatists have since fought five insurgencies to try to claw back their independence from Pakistan's central government, which has
responded with massacres, large scale disappearances and torture.
"The British treated us treacherously and pushed us into a union with Pakistan," said the Khan as he prepared a traditional Baluchi dish of roast chicken
and spicy meat cutlets. "We had no desire to be part of Pakistan but we were ignored and the agreement was eventually forced down our throats. Till the
very last moment, they kept us in the dark. All the time we were assured that the Baluch would keep their independent state but instead we were sold
down the river."
Yet Britain's historical behaviour in his homeland is not the only thing bothering this tribal leader.
"I applied for asylum on 14 July 2007," he said. "I even put myself forward for the fast-track scheme, yet here we are, nearly two years later, still waiting for
a response. I have been stonewalled by virtually every official we have come across." When the Khan went to register as an asylum-seeker in Croydon,
he was surrounded by buzzing immigration officials, keen to see his passport which says "His Highness". "It is very different to how other Pakistani
leaders have been treated."
The Government welcomed other exiled Pakistani politicians such as Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto during their own spells in the wilderness. Both
former prime ministers spent years in London during their spats with the then-military dictator, Pervez Musharraf, but never had to apply for asylum.
The Khan had never intended to remain in Britain. At a loya jirga (tribal gathering) called after Bugti's assassination, he vowed to take the plight of his
people to the International Court of Justice in The Hague in a bid to apply international pressure on the Pakistanis over their treatment of the Baluch.
He was placed on a watch list by Mr Musharraf but managed to fly out undetected from Karachi to perform the Hajj. When his British visa was rejected, he
applied for asylum fearing deportation back to Pakistan. As a prospective asylum-seeker, he is unable to travel to The Hague and campaign for his
people.
The Khan believes the British have agreed to remain silent over Baluchistan and keep him in limbo in return for Pakistan's co-operation in hunting down
UK-born Islamic radicals.
Britain is the only country other than Pakistan to have proscribed the main Baluchi separatist movements as terror groups. They only did so in 2005, after
Mr Musharraf threatened to withdraw from talks aimed at securing the extradition of Birmingham-born Rashid Rauf, the suspected ringleader of the
transatlantic airliner bomb plot who was eventually killed by an unmanned US drone last year.
The only Baluch nationals living in the UK to be charged under terror legislation were acquitted last month. Faiz Baluch, 27, and Hyrbyair Marri, 40, stood
accused of being members of the BLA and encouraging terrorism overseas but the jury found them not guilty. Their supporters claim the prosecution
aimed to curry favour with the Pakistanis.
A devout Muslim, the Khan is critical of Islamic radicalism. But he worries that the continued repression of the Baluch, coupled with the de facto silencing
of their tribal leaders, is forcing many formerly secular separatists into the arms of the Taliban instead.
The Taliban have held little sway over the Baluchi tribes other than in and around the provincial capital, Quetta. But Islamic radicalism appears to be
spreading through the region. Two weeks ago, the Pakistani Taliban leaders announced the creation of a new group, "Tehreek-e-Taliban Baluchistan".
Marooned in his Cardiff semi, The Khan says he desperately wants to halt the radicalisation of the Baluch but no-one, it seems, is willing to listen to a
king with no kingdom.
SOURCE: http://www.independent.co.uk/
May 17, 2009.
The De Jure Ruler of Baluchistan, Khan of Kalat Suleman Daud Ahmedzai has urged the Baluch to shed their differences and keep aside their political
loyalties to work on the single point agenda of liberation of Baluchistan.
"There are elements out there who are trying to discredit the Baluch so that no Baluch may get any help from anyone," Ahmedzai, whose family had ruled
over the Baluch tribal confederacy for more than 30 generations said.
He regretted that almost all Baluch in the West appear to be working on a personal agenda and at war with one another.
He made it clear that every nation should have its own leaders and pointed out there is no war of liberation in neighboring Sindh .
"Liberation of Baluchistan is not a Sindhi issue," he said. "Sindhis are today sharing power with Punjabis in Pakistan. They are saying Pakistan khapay
[We want Pakistan]. It is only the Baluch who are saying we do not want Pakistan."
Khan of Kalat recently attended a disposition of two of his fiercest critics, resistance leaders Hairbyair Marri and Faiz Baluch, in London at a committee
room of the House of Lords.
Peter Tatchell, an international human and gay righst acitivst had helped organized the event.
"Someone has to make a begnning and that is the reason I went there," he said on phone Sunday from his home in Cardiff.
"Unless the Baluch unite in the U.S. no one is going to listen to them," he said.
Baluchistan is a Texas-sized region divided among Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. The fiercely territorial and independence minded Baluch want the
foreigners, especially the Punjabis and Persians, out of their native lands.
"It is not a regional problem" Khan of Kalat.
April 26, 2009
The Khan of Kalat, Mir Suleiman Daud Khan, is determined to take the case of Balochistan to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Hague at any cost.
Currently living in South Wales after having arrived in England following the Aug 2006 murder of Nawab Akbar Bugti, the Khan of Kalat applied for asylum
and still awaits the outcome of his application. Until a decision is made, he cannot travel abroad to present the case of his homeland to the world. He
would like to tell the world that Pakistan has violated the 1948 treaty and 1973 constitution that promised autonomy to the four provinces.
Khan says he has been on the hit-list of Pakistani security agencies after he uniquely unified the warring tribes, following the death of Nawab Bugti,
convincing them of the power of unity and joint struggle for an autonomous Balochistan. This jirga was held after nearly 130 years and attended by 85
sardars and 300 tribal elders. He says his initiative was a resounding success and that worried the power brokers in Islamabad.
"I would take Pakistan to the ICJ and make its establishment answerable for the slow-motion genocide of my people. The random and targeted killings,
the torture and total disregard for the rights of Baloch people is a scandal and it needs world's attention. It is no more a local or regional problem," the
35th Khan of Kalat told TNS.
"Due to its wealth and strategic location, Balochistan is of high strategic importance to the world. West should take interest in what's going on there."
On the question of alleged foreign funding, the Khan of Kalat candidly said "We will not mind taking help from Satan, let alone US, Britain or India. That
distinction finished long time ago. Unlike many other Muslim conflict zones, Muslims are killings Muslims in Pakistan and it has boiled down to staying
alive in Balochistan."
Like many other Baloch nationalist leaders, he has lost faith in dialogue and sees no point in even discussing the possibilities of reconciliation. "That
time is not with us anymore. Dialogue with Pakistani establishment is a waste of time. Talks didn't yield anything for us. Period."
This king without a kingdom says those Baloch sardars who don't support the on-going "fight in pure self-defence against Pakistan army's aggression"
are cowards and traitors and history will not treat them kindly.
Sitting 4,000 miles away from his people, Khan's solution to the Balochistan problem is simple: rise up in unity in whatever way you can to obtain your
rights and independence. For now, Khan is in a limbo and will have to wait and see what asylum and immigrations courts decide about his asylum case.
The struggle in the meanwhile, he says, will continue.
-- M. Ali. Shah
From Pakistan to Cardiff: The King of Kalat
A royal asylum-seeker wants to stop the Taliban and win independence for his Baluch people ... if only he could escape from South Wales. Jerome
Taylor reports
LONDON: March 16, 2009. In an anonymous pebble-dashed semi-detached house on the outskirts of Cardiff, a powerfully built, bearded man with a
green prayer cap looks through a folio of 19th-century letters sent by the British Government to his kingdom. Stashed in overflowing plastic bags and a
tattered brown suitcase, some are even written on pieces of animal skin. Rummaging through the case, he pulls out a large piece of parchment, stained
yellow with time and covered with lines of elegant Persian script. "This is the first treaty that was signed between my people and the British in 1841," he
says. "It was the first piece of paper signed by the British that recognised the state of Kalat."
Welcome to the humble Welsh abode of His Royal Highness Khan Suleman Daud, the 35th Khan of Kalat.
Until three years ago, Khan Suleman's house was a sumptuous desert palace on a windswept ridge in Baluchistan – the mountainous and mineral-rich
Pakistani province where separatists have waged an insurgency to carve out their own independent state for much of the past 60 years.
Whenever the Khan left his palace in his two armour-plated, gold Humvees, he would be accompanied by dozens of armed bodyguards. One of western
Pakistan's most influential tribal leaders, he commanded the loyalty and respect of thousands of Baluch tribesmen and had long angered Pakistan's
military establishment by campaigning for independence, though he opposes armed resistance.
The Khan was forced to flee after being targeted for speaking out against the Pakistani military's well-documented human rights abuses. He now whiles
away his days as an anonymous asylum-seeker in south Wales, separated from his people by 4,000 miles and trapped in the seemingly everlasting
limbo of Britain's immigration system.
He left Pakistan after the military assassination of Akbar Khan Bugti, 79, the soft-spoken, Oxford-educated, separatist leader accused by the Pakistanis
of co-ordinating the shadowy Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA).
"I want more than anything to return to my homeland, but I cannot at the moment," said the Khan. "If I returned to Pakistan, my life would be in danger
because the military regard me as a threat. And yet, everything I have is back in Kalat. Back home, I have palaces, vast amounts of land, the respect and
love of my people. Here I am in limbo, living in a three bedroom house in Cardiff."
That someone as influential as the Khan has ended up as an asylum-seeker in Britain – a country that he says "betrayed" the Baluch people – offers a
21st-century snapshot of colonial fall-out.
Locating Khan Suleman's kingdom on a map of the world is difficult but, less than a century ago, the Khanate of Kalat was a thriving confederacy of tribes
spread across much of what is now western Pakistan, southern Afghanistan and south-eastern Iran.
Populated by fiercely independent Baluch warriors, Kalat retained much of its independence from the British as the Raj's political agents spread
throughout the sub-continent, toppling, bribing and replacing its regional leaders as they went.
Regarded as too wild to tame but a useful buffer against Russians, the Baluch were allowed to keep their sovereignty. Although successive treaties
chipped away at their territory, the Khans of Kalat remained the region's most powerful independent rulers.
As the Partition of India loomed, Khan Suleman's grandfather, Ahmad Yar Khan, was assured that the Baluch would be allowed to keep their
independence. A deal was struck whereby Kalat and the new state of Pakistan would be independent of each other but would share currency, foreign
policy and defence equally.
Yet, after just six months of independence, the Pakistani military stormed in and forced Ahmed Yar Khan to cede his khanate to Pakistan. Forgotten by
the West, Baluchi separatists have since fought five insurgencies to try to claw back their independence from Pakistan's central government, which has
responded with massacres, large scale disappearances and torture.
"The British treated us treacherously and pushed us into a union with Pakistan," said the Khan as he prepared a traditional Baluchi dish of roast chicken
and spicy meat cutlets. "We had no desire to be part of Pakistan but we were ignored and the agreement was eventually forced down our throats. Till the
very last moment, they kept us in the dark. All the time we were assured that the Baluch would keep their independent state but instead we were sold
down the river."
Yet Britain's historical behaviour in his homeland is not the only thing bothering this tribal leader.
"I applied for asylum on 14 July 2007," he said. "I even put myself forward for the fast-track scheme, yet here we are, nearly two years later, still waiting for
a response. I have been stonewalled by virtually every official we have come across." When the Khan went to register as an asylum-seeker in Croydon,
he was surrounded by buzzing immigration officials, keen to see his passport which says "His Highness". "It is very different to how other Pakistani
leaders have been treated."
The Government welcomed other exiled Pakistani politicians such as Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto during their own spells in the wilderness. Both
former prime ministers spent years in London during their spats with the then-military dictator, Pervez Musharraf, but never had to apply for asylum.
The Khan had never intended to remain in Britain. At a loya jirga (tribal gathering) called after Bugti's assassination, he vowed to take the plight of his
people to the International Court of Justice in The Hague in a bid to apply international pressure on the Pakistanis over their treatment of the Baluch.
He was placed on a watch list by Mr Musharraf but managed to fly out undetected from Karachi to perform the Hajj. When his British visa was rejected, he
applied for asylum fearing deportation back to Pakistan. As a prospective asylum-seeker, he is unable to travel to The Hague and campaign for his
people.
The Khan believes the British have agreed to remain silent over Baluchistan and keep him in limbo in return for Pakistan's co-operation in hunting down
UK-born Islamic radicals.
Britain is the only country other than Pakistan to have proscribed the main Baluchi separatist movements as terror groups. They only did so in 2005, after
Mr Musharraf threatened to withdraw from talks aimed at securing the extradition of Birmingham-born Rashid Rauf, the suspected ringleader of the
transatlantic airliner bomb plot who was eventually killed by an unmanned US drone last year.
The only Baluch nationals living in the UK to be charged under terror legislation were acquitted last month. Faiz Baluch, 27, and Hyrbyair Marri, 40, stood
accused of being members of the BLA and encouraging terrorism overseas but the jury found them not guilty. Their supporters claim the prosecution
aimed to curry favour with the Pakistanis.
A devout Muslim, the Khan is critical of Islamic radicalism. But he worries that the continued repression of the Baluch, coupled with the de facto silencing
of their tribal leaders, is forcing many formerly secular separatists into the arms of the Taliban instead.
The Taliban have held little sway over the Baluchi tribes other than in and around the provincial capital, Quetta. But Islamic radicalism appears to be
spreading through the region. Two weeks ago, the Pakistani Taliban leaders announced the creation of a new group, "Tehreek-e-Taliban Baluchistan".
Marooned in his Cardiff semi, The Khan says he desperately wants to halt the radicalisation of the Baluch but no-one, it seems, is willing to listen to a
king with no kingdom.
SOURCE: http://www.independent.co.uk/
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Latest Message of His Highness Suleman Daud
Baluch, Khan of Kalat
I would like to express my opinion on the continuity of the Baluch Nation and it's part in the future of Southern
Central Asia. The Baluch have been and always will be part of the soil of this land. Our blood has paid for the
air above and the ground beneath the territories of all the Baluch speaking people in Iran, Pakistan and
Afghanistan. This is an undeniable fact.
During the time and collapse of the Indian Empire, controlled by the former colonising power, the British, the
People of my country were placed against their will, into the hands of the artificially created boundaries of
the Goldsmith and Durrand lines between Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran.
Baluch, Khan of Kalat
I would like to express my opinion on the continuity of the Baluch Nation and it's part in the future of Southern
Central Asia. The Baluch have been and always will be part of the soil of this land. Our blood has paid for the
air above and the ground beneath the territories of all the Baluch speaking people in Iran, Pakistan and
Afghanistan. This is an undeniable fact.
During the time and collapse of the Indian Empire, controlled by the former colonising power, the British, the
People of my country were placed against their will, into the hands of the artificially created boundaries of
the Goldsmith and Durrand lines between Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran.
Regardless of the state of affairs that exist and the tensions which have festered between these sovereign nations, the fact remains that the Baluch are
an integral part of the region. History shows us that those who ignore the Baluch nation do so at their peril. It is a demonstrable fact that without peace
and stability in Baluchistan and security and the pursuit of happiness for the all people of this region, governed by a just and secular legislative counsel,
all those who are the neighbours of the Baluch will suffer to some degree, the same fate as that of Baluch.
My message to you all is a message of hope. Sooner or later, all those antagonistic parties who surround our borders or take part in the New Great
Game will realise that their own security, happiness and future are dependant on the same things, and that the Baluch must play a integral and full
participating role in
achieving those goals. Any resolution without the Baluch is no resolution at all. The Baluch should sit at the same table as all other participants in the
struggle for peace and freedom. The Baluch have long been treated as the sand in the engine of the region. Prosperity for the region will only come about
when it is accepted that the Baluch Nation, it's people and resources are the lubricant in an otherwise diverse, multi ethnic, religious and socioeconomic
land. Let no one believe that the Baluch, wherever they lay their heads, are not one people. History and terrible injustices have lead to the fragmentation of
Baluchistan. This however we must believe, is a temporary situation. All Baluch are brothers, not cousins, nor friends nor acquaintances but brothers.
One heart, one mind, one soul. Those that do not understand this will surely be punished for their actions if they transgress against any part of the
Motherland. At the present time I find myself marooned far from home, away from my beloved Motherland, by people who do not understand what is is to
be Baluch. We are a proud and persistent people, we have courage and a tenacity that others fail to comprehend. I long for my home but was given a task
to complete on behalf of all my people. I could not refuse even if it meant the loss of my liberty and separation from people I love. I herewith promise that.
'I will prevail in my duty in bringing the plight of ALL the Baluch people to the attention of the International Community'. A nation which opposes this
mission cannot justifiably call itself a freedom loving democracy and I hereby call upon those searching for justice to come to the aid of my people.
Baluchistan Zindabad. >> The Original Message: PDF
an integral part of the region. History shows us that those who ignore the Baluch nation do so at their peril. It is a demonstrable fact that without peace
and stability in Baluchistan and security and the pursuit of happiness for the all people of this region, governed by a just and secular legislative counsel,
all those who are the neighbours of the Baluch will suffer to some degree, the same fate as that of Baluch.
My message to you all is a message of hope. Sooner or later, all those antagonistic parties who surround our borders or take part in the New Great
Game will realise that their own security, happiness and future are dependant on the same things, and that the Baluch must play a integral and full
participating role in
achieving those goals. Any resolution without the Baluch is no resolution at all. The Baluch should sit at the same table as all other participants in the
struggle for peace and freedom. The Baluch have long been treated as the sand in the engine of the region. Prosperity for the region will only come about
when it is accepted that the Baluch Nation, it's people and resources are the lubricant in an otherwise diverse, multi ethnic, religious and socioeconomic
land. Let no one believe that the Baluch, wherever they lay their heads, are not one people. History and terrible injustices have lead to the fragmentation of
Baluchistan. This however we must believe, is a temporary situation. All Baluch are brothers, not cousins, nor friends nor acquaintances but brothers.
One heart, one mind, one soul. Those that do not understand this will surely be punished for their actions if they transgress against any part of the
Motherland. At the present time I find myself marooned far from home, away from my beloved Motherland, by people who do not understand what is is to
be Baluch. We are a proud and persistent people, we have courage and a tenacity that others fail to comprehend. I long for my home but was given a task
to complete on behalf of all my people. I could not refuse even if it meant the loss of my liberty and separation from people I love. I herewith promise that.
'I will prevail in my duty in bringing the plight of ALL the Baluch people to the attention of the International Community'. A nation which opposes this
mission cannot justifiably call itself a freedom loving democracy and I hereby call upon those searching for justice to come to the aid of my people.
Baluchistan Zindabad. >> The Original Message: PDF
HH Khan of Kalat for international mediation on Balochistan
LONDON: July 11, 2009. The UK-based self-exiled Khan of Kalat has said that without international
mediation he would not become part of any talks to address the security-related and economic problems of
Balochistan. >> More
LONDON: July 11, 2009. The UK-based self-exiled Khan of Kalat has said that without international
mediation he would not become part of any talks to address the security-related and economic problems of
Balochistan. >> More
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