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India-Pakistan
Cases against Baloch leaders to be dropped
2012-02-24
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Thursday announced withdrawal of cases against the Baloch leaders currently residing abroad.
Remember Benazir, boys...
“Following the government’s reconciliation policy, I announce that Baloch leaders, including Barahamdagh Bugti and Hyrbiyar Marri, return to Pakistan to take part in the political and development process and I would personally receive them,” he told reporters after chairing a high-level meeting held to review the implementation process of Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan package.

He said Balochistan needed a political solution to its problems and the coalition government of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) was determined to addressing the issue through political means. He dispelled the impression created by certain elements regarding the situation in the province, saying, “We want to bring development in order to ensure stability and prosperity.”

Malik also urged all Baloch and national leaders to participate in the All-Parties Conference being convened by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on the unrest in Balochistan.

“I do not say the situation in the province is normal, but the way it has been propagated and portrayed is not right,” he said while responding to another question.

He told the reporters that another decision taken during the meeting was FC Balochistan would not move in any district of the province without permission of the deputy commissioner. He further added that no FC checkpost would be established without permission of the Balochistan chief minister and that the FC and Coast Guards would exercise powers under the Customs Act, strictly in accordance with the law, and keep their deployment restricted to 10 kilometres of the international border.
So it's safe for the Taliban to move about in Balochistan now...
Posted by:Steve White

#2  And movement entails " nationalist" whaaa. Never mind.

This has not even been plopped into discovery yet.
Posted by: newc   2012-02-24 02:26  

#1  PAK GOVT-ALLEGED BLATANT + MALICIOUS US INTERVENTION IN BALOCHISTAN ...

* SAME > US CONGRESSMAN [Rohrabacher] CALLS FOR PAKISTAN'S LARGEST PROVINCE TO SECEDE, SPARKING LATEST CONFLICT. US-Pak diplomatic row.

* FYI DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > TIBETAN OFFICIALS ORDERED BY CHINA TO "PREPARE FOR SECCESSIONIST WAR"; + TIBET IN LOCKDOWN.

versus

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [old = 11/2008] ALASKA + HAWAII HAVE STRONG SECESSIONIST MOVEMENTS TO BECOME INDEPENDENT + SEPARATE NATIONS.

* SAME > ALASKAN SEPARATISM HITS THE [American] MAINSTREAM.

Back to the Future of late 2008, via Pak Mil Forums.

Not unlike wid the US-vs-China, e.g. Himalayas-vs-Hawaii, pro-PAK MILBLOGGERS/POSTERS are arguing that iff the US desires to interfere in sovereign Pakistan affairs + induce the separation of Balochistan from Pakistan, THEN ISLAMABAD + ALLIES SHOULD RESPOND BY SUPPORTING VARIOUS INDIGENOUS SEPARATIST MOVEMENTS WIDIN THE US PROPER.

ARMING THEM, iff necessary.

Looks like the mighty North Korean invasion of CONUS ala "RED DAWN II" [remake] may yet still occur.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-02-24 01:07  

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