...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, police said.
The cases were registered on the complaints of petitioners Munir Ahmed, Maulana Muhammad Aslam, Muhammad Hussain, Ghulam Yaseen Jatak and Muhammad Rahim at five cop shoppes in Balochistan's Khuzdar area.
The Baloch leaders were booked under sections 120, 121, 123 and 353 of the Pakistain Penal Code. The sections refer to "concealing design to commit offence punishable with imprisonment", "waging or attempting to wage war or abetting waging of war against Pakistain", "concealing with intent to facilitate design to wage war", and "assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty".
Acting District Police Officer Khuzdar Muhammad Ashraf Jatak said the applicants claimed Bugti, Marri and Baloch had 'supported' Modi's Aug 15 speech.
The Indian premier in a speech on India's independence day ─ in what some analysts believe is a move to divert attention away from the Kashmire issue ─ said that the people of Balochistan, Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmire 'thanked him a lot in the past few days'.
Petitioner Munir Ahmed also alleged that the Baloch leaders had asked the Indian premier to commit aggression against Pakistain.
Modi's controversial statement sparked protests across Balochistan, with large numbers of rustics taking to the streets in protest in Dera Bugti, Khuzdar, Quetta, Chaman and other parts of the province.